RUSSIAN TERRORISM.
BARBARITY TO ECCLESIASTICS. HOUSED WITH CRIMINALS. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) BERLIN, Dec, 7. The Roman Catholic newspaper Germania describes Soloviesk Island, in the White Sea, where the Soviet has established a penal settlement among the natural terrors of endless, icy, wintry nights. 11 says the short summer is attended by plagues of wasps and mosquitos. The Soviet has imprisoned there 12 bishops, 18 Roman Catholic priests and many Russian orthodox priests, hundreds of Roman Catholic laymen and many Sisters of Mercy. IL has housed them with 11,000 criminals. Last year, says the paper 3214 prisoners died. Bishop d’Herbigny, of the Oriental Mission, says nobody in Europe realises the violence of the treatment of the prisoners. Seventy priests were packed in one small dungeon, the window of which was only opened for 20 minutes a day. The warders took a fiendish delight in sending nuns to the men’s barracks, where they were molested by the prisoners.
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17581, 10 December 1928, Page 8
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