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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 February 1921, Page 4

A little company of naval men were welcomed in London the other day (reports the Times). Several of them have since talked with the King at Buckingham Palace. They were British Erisoners released from Baku. One had ept a diary in captivity. Day by day, laboriously, in a cheap account book, with a lead pencil, he translated passages which struck his fancy in the Bolshevist organ the Communist. These pasages give* a vivid impression of life under the Bolshevist system. To a decree directing families and shopkeepers to contribute so many pairs of boots for use by the Red Army succeeds a proclamation against the "greedy aims of .the parasites who are feeding on our I blood—the English." A paragraph records that the local theatre has been filled by the bourgeoisie, Red soldiers and working men being unable to afford the "mad prices"—3oo Bolshevist roubles, perhaps lid in English mortey —charged for seats. Another testifies to the change in the nature of prisons, 1 .1, <i are ji^ institutions not* of a punishing but exclusively of a correctins: character,'' where "all those measures which can ennoble,, enlarge.* and I improve the sonl of man" are intro-'i d*yed. The diarist, having been a! prisoner himself, retains an opinion of' his own on the point. j