BOLSHEVIK PRISONERS’ SUFFERINGS
A SIX-WEEKS’ TRAIN JOURNEY
By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association NHW YORK, November 26. Dispatches from Vladivostok state that 1321 survivovrs, composed of former prisoners of the Bolsheviks and refugees, have arrived after a sixweeks’ train journey across Siberia under the most terrible conditions. All are half-starved, and many are dying. Eight hundred died on the journey, some of whom were shot by the Bolsheviks, whilst ■ disease and exposure killed many others. BOLSHEVIKS INVADE ESTHONIA. NEW YORK, November 26. The Bolsheviks have invaded Esthonia, the most northerly of the Baltic provinces.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10138, 28 November 1918, Page 5
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