Horrors of Siberia
*f, >A letter has been received by Ivan from a Kussian exile now in liondou^, the Countess Nargiaknow, giring painful revelations of the con- < ditipn^f ] exiles in Siberia. The exj' ilee». to Liberia in 1886 numbered 6,64 b or. their reported supi~3pprters\ v In' 1887 there were added - <~14j277 -more ; in 1888 the number fj^afe and in 1889 the exilea •were 1 4 2;()0O. Of the numbir exiled the. deaths range from- 180 to 220 per 1000 due to natural sickness, cold exj)osure; and knout punishment. The ' *uicideß average 20 to the 1000. During the -month of -August, 1889, in of Ithe> central political prisons, '275 of the 490 ' prisoners were prostrated with fever. The average of • sfchese flogged with the -knout is ten ' «ut of every 100 persons. Instances ■of cruelty in various prisons are -quoted, in which prisoners' feet were frozen in their cells, and they were ■aent out to wash clothes when the thermometer was. 26 degrees below ■ jtero. ' Commander Masinoff is also t -charged with calling men before him ' in irons and striking them in the face '. "while they were helpless. ' Despite th« facts, it is noted- that, the Huesian . papers continue to represent that the , life of the exiles in Mberia is a z pleasant one.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 144, 29 May 1890, Page 4
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214Horrors of Siberia Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 144, 29 May 1890, Page 4
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