POLICE BRUTALITY
amazing storjhes
(United Press Association—By Electric
Telegraph—Copyright)
(Received this day at 9.40 n.m.) LONDON, Dec. 3
The “Daily Mail’s” correspondent at Riga tells amazing stories of Secret Police brutality. It is related that 235 Mcnnites arrived at Riga accompanied by 165 children. Many were arrested at midnight and forced into unheated padlocked freight wagons and are at present slowly proceding to an unknown destination. In thq Omsk district, where the temperature is thirty below zero, the Secret Police were obliged to manacle men and bind women with ropes to prevent them from throwing themselves under the wheels of motor wagons. Scores lost their reason when arrested. The refugees, with teai s streaming down their cheeks, pleaded to the German Minister, Latvia, who met them at Riga station, to save their co-religionists, of whom about six thousand remain at Moscow.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1929, Page 5
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