POLITICAL PRISONERS.
BARBAROUSLY TREATED IN RUSSIA.
AN INTERNATIONAL PROTEST. (By Cable.—Pre*i Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, November 25. A protest against the torture of political prisoners in Russia is being published throughout Europe. It is signed by Lord Lytton, Mr Josmh Wedgwood, Mr Ramsay MacDonnld. Sir A. Conan Doyle, Mr H. G: Wells,. Mr J : K. Jerome, Mr Maurice Hewlett, Mr Laurence Irving, Professors J. B. Bury and Gilbert Murray, and „ many others abroad. The document declares that since 1905, when the Czar promised liberty to the Riission people, 37,000 persons have been imprisoned, and 3000 cxc* etited. Starvation and the most barbarous treatment have made the prisons a hell. The 2|d daily allowed for food is mostly pocketed by the officials. Prisoners are packed into over-crowded, dirty rooms, devoid of the simplest hygienic equipment: They are almost deprived of medical assistance, and become victims of all kinds of epidemics. Many prisoners committed suicide, and of tens of thousands deported to Siberia without trial, many perished for want of food, clothing, and housing.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14834, 27 November 1913, Page 7
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170POLITICAL PRISONERS. Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14834, 27 November 1913, Page 7
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