RUSSIAN TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.
» SHOCKING INHUMANITY. By Telegraph.—Press Association.— Bangkok, October 29. A French newspaper published atSaigon states that 700 Russian prisoners in three tiers of iron cages in the lower decks of a steamer voyaging from Odessa to Yaroslavsk were detained a month at Saigon owing to a breakdown of the vessel's machinery. The heat was sweltering and the mortality shocking— exactly how great it was impossible to ascertain.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11799, 31 October 1901, Page 5
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