REPUBLIC OF CONDEMNED.
SOVIET PENAL ISLAND.
TROOPS LOATH TO SERVE.
CONVICTS BECOME GUARDS.
By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received June 17, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 16. The Warsaw correspondent of the Daily Express says (he Soviet's dreaded place of deportation, Solovski Island, in the White Sea, lias become a sinister " republic of the condemned." The Soviet found that typhus and scurvy were killing off 50 per cent, of the men in the many garrison posts on the island as well as a similar proportion of convicts. Troops consequently were reluctant to go thero and some mutinied.
Tho Soviet Government, therefore, solved the problem by creating Solovski a republic. Short-term Communist convicts are now guarding their brother convicts.
It is alleged that tho new guards practise very severe discipline under promise of remission of sentences. Many titled Tsarist Russians are among tho republic's hapless people.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20593, 18 June 1930, Page 11
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