PRISON HORRORS.
ON WHITE SEA ISLAND. BRUTAL SOVIET WARDERS. (Australian Press Association —United Service.) BERLIN, Dec. 8. The Catholic newspaper Germania, describing Solovisk Island. White Sea, where the Soviet has established a penal settlement, says, that among the natural terrors are endless icy wintry nights and a short summer attended by plagues of wasps and mosquitos. The Soviet had imprisoned there twelve bishops., eighteen Roman Catholic a.nd many Russian orthodox priests, hundreds of Catholic laymen and many sistens of mercy, housing them with 11,009 criminals. Last year 3214 prisoners died. Bishop Pherbigny, of the Oriental Mission, says nobody in Europe realises the violence of the treatment. Seventy priests are packed in one small dungeon of which the window was opened only 20 minutes daily. Warders fiendishly delight to send nuns to the men’s barracks, wdiere they are molested by the prisoners.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 December 1928, Page 7
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