RUSSIAN EMIGRES
CRUELTY OF TCHEKA
v (Beccivcd 3rd December, 1 p.m.)
LONDON, 2nd December.
T?i c "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Ei'iga tells that amazing stories of Tchek,a brutality are related by 235 Mennoiutes who arrived at Eiga, aecompani ed by 165 children. Thousands were arrested at; midnight, and forced into unseated ' padlocked freight wagons, vhich are at .present slowly proceeding- to an unknown destination in the Omjlc district, where the temperature is thirty degrees below zero. The Tchekisti* were obliged to manacle men and birwt women with ropes to prevent ' theml throwing themselves under the wheels of motor wagons. Scores lost their reason ivhcu they wore arrested. Eofugfles with tears streaming down their cheeks pleaded with the German Minister at Latvia, who met them at Eiga s station, to save their co-religionists, of whom about six thousand remain in Moscow.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1929, Page 11
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