PRISONER IN RUSSIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19916, 9 April 1928, Page 10

PRISONER IN RUSSIA.

GERMAN ILL-TREATED. FEARS FOR COMPATRIOTS. t ■ - LONDON. March 25. ' Tire Berlin correspondent of the Tines Bays the circumstances surrounding the arrest of Goldstein —one of the six German industrial specialists who were seized at Donetz on charges ranging up to sabotage of Russian enterprises—merely because an intercepted letter was wrongly translated, have caused misgivings regarding the fate of his compatriots,, who have not yet been released. ..Goldstein, who is a trusted expert of the General Electric Company, on rea.chiijg Berlin, told how he heard rifle butts battering at his door at 2 a.m. When he opened the door, armed members of the Russian secret police. took him into custody. Some Gennan friends handed him blankets, and he was driven to Stalin, where ,he was incarcerated in a cell occupied by vermin-infested Russhns,, He became ill, but nevertheless v/as again started on his journey, to where he .knew not, his armed escort sitting . 'vith fingeis on the triggers. He eventually reached Rostoff, after 20. hours in the train. > I The r o he was again searched and deprived of his tie and belt to, preclude any possibility of suicide, and pushed a verminous cell containing seven Russians, He was able to exorcise fiva minutes a day only. A, fellow-prisoner went mad, and anolher went into .fits,.