Russia Slowly Killing Off Baltic Races
Received Monday, 7 p.m. LOXDON, March 7. Eight hundred Baltic refugees, at a protest meeting in Stuttgart, adopted a resolution appealing to L'nited Nations to "stop the genocide of the Esthonian, Latvian and Lithnanian peoples by'the Soviet Government. " •' ■ Reuter's Htuttgart correpponderrt says speakers alleged that between S()(),0(J() and 900, 000 people, which is about 1.") per cent of the population of the Baltic countries, had been deported to Soviet forced labour camps. Hua dreds of thousands had died in the camps through hunger, cold, iJi-treat-ment and overwork.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 March 1949, Page 5
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