PRISON HORRORS
EXPERIENCES IN RUSSIA. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, August 12. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Reval correspondent states : Liberated Americans tell extraordinary stories of physical and mental torture, which are supported by visible evidence of feverish eyes, hollow cheeks and trembling hands. Captain Fitzpatrick , of the Red Cross Organisation, says that he was reported to be crazy because he fought Polish prisoners who prevented air coming into the cells. A most terrible and horrible experience was his confinement in a basement cell next to an execution room. Fitzpatrick was once under sentence of death, and was confined in a room, which was constantly flooded to wash away the blood. Fitzpatrick added: “Our thoughts are for thousands of prisoners of other nationalities, who are slowly djing in unspeakable misery and torture. The civilised world ought to co-operate to effect their release.”
“NOTHING TO FEAR” (Reuter’s Telegram.) Recd. 10 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 11. A Black Sea message to Riga states that local representatives of the Soviet assured Latvia it had nothing to fear from an invasion of the famine-stricken Rusisans, as people were fleeing towards Siberia and south-west provinces of Russi a. gjßßnraJMWiMium
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1921, Page 5
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