SOVIET BRUTALITIES
POLICE AND MENNENITES. (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Recd. December 3, 11 a.m.) LONDON, December 2. The “Daily Mail’s” correspondent at Riga tells amazing stories of secret police brutality. He related that 235 Mennenites arrived at Riga, accompanied by 165 children. Many were arrested at midnight, and forced into unheated padlocked freight wagons, and are at present slowly proceeding to an unknown destination in the Omsk district, where the temperature is 30 below zero. The secret police were obliged to manacle men and bind women with ropes to prevent them throwing themselves under’ the wheels of motor wagons. Scores lost their reason when arrested. Refugees with tears streaming down their cheeks, pleaded to the German Minister to Latvia, who met them at Riga station, to save their co-re-ligionists of whom aboTvt 6000 remain at Moscow,.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 December 1929, Page 7
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