ARCHANGEL 30 YEARS AGO.
I was in Archangel 30 years ago, before it had any railway (writes ;i correspondent of the Daily Chronicle). Even then it was a largo and busy town, having much traffic with our East Coast. 1 remember the town had an enormous prison, in which political convicts were acclimatised for the rigours of the Siberian winter, and these convicts (some of whom, I noted, had cigarette cases of gold) worked with Russian women in the loading of ships. One soldier with an obsolete rifle had charge of each GO prisoners, and his job was a sinecure, because even in the event of n bolt his charges could escape to nowhere in particular.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1387, 20 November 1918, Page 7
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116ARCHANGEL 30 YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1387, 20 November 1918, Page 7
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