POLITICAL BRUTALITY IN RUSSIA.
HBFUGEES CAUGHT AT RIGA AND DESPATCHED TO SIBERIA. , MANY ATTEMPT SUICIDE. sßy TeJegraph-Press Assn.-Copyrighfc.) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dee. 2. Th© Daily Mail's correspondent at Riga tells amazing stories of Secret Police brutality. It is related that 233 Mennonitea (a religious sect) arrived at Riga, accompanied by 165 children. Many were arrested at midnight and forced into unheated, padlocked freight -waggons, and are at present slowly proceeding to an unknown destination in the Omsk district, where the temperature is 30 degrees below zero. The Secret Police were obliged t-> snanacle men and bind women with ropes to prevent them throwing themselves under the wheels of motor waggons. Scores of the unfortunate people lost their reason. When arrested, the refugees, with' teara streaming down their cheeks, pleaded to the German Minister for Latvia, who met them at the Kiga station, to save their co-religionists, of whom about 6000 remain at Moscow.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 December 1929, Page 5
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