CATHOLICS ILL-TREATED

Grey River Argus, 10 December 1928, Page 5

CATHOLICS ILL-TREATED

In Soviet Penal Settlement. TERRORS OF SOLOVIESK ISLANx (Received December 8, at 8 p.m.) BERLIN, DecemU r 8. The Catholic newspaper, Germania describes Solov.Ssk Island, in the White Sea, where the Sovil t has established. a penal settlement. Among the natural terrors of an endless icv winter, the nighty are short, and. the summer is attended by plagues of wasps and mosquitoes. The Soviet has imprisoned there, twelve Bishops, eighteen Roman Catholi&s, many Russian orthodox priests, hundreds ctf Catholic Laymen and many Sisters of Mercy, housing them with elevon thousand criminals. Last year 3,214 prisoners died. Bishop Dherbigny of the Ori-ntaJ Mission, says nobody in Europe realises the violence of their tr atment. seventy Priests are packed in one small dungeon, of which the window is only open twenty minutes daily. Wardens fiendishly delight to send the nuns to the m/n’s barracks, where they are molested by the pris oners.