CONVICTS GUARD CONVICTS.
SINISTER PRISON REPUBLIC.
DISEASE TAKES HEAVY TOLL.
PRESS ASSOCIATION' EY ELECTRIC TBtSOEAPH—COPVBI3BT.) (Received June 17tb, 7 p.m.) LONDON, June 16. ' The Warsaw correspondent of the "Daily Expfess" states that the Soviet's dreaded place of deportation, Solovski Island in the White Sea, has become a sinister republic of the condemned. The Soviet finds that typhus and scurvy aro killing off fifty per cent, of its many garrison troops, as well as a similar proportion of convicts. Troops are consequently reluctant to go there, some mutinying. The Government has, therefore, solved the problem by creating Solovski a Republic and short-term Communist convicts are guarding their brother convicts. The new guards, it is alleged, practise the most severe discipline, under a promise of remission of sentences. Many titled Tsarist Russians are among the Republic's hapless populace.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19957, 18 June 1930, Page 11
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136CONVICTS GUARD CONVICTS. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19957, 18 June 1930, Page 11
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