Ruthless Oppression
Awful Conditions in Poland CRUSHING THE PEASANTS, GRAVE ALLEGATIONS. [By Cable—Press Aren.-Copyrirtt) (Received 18, 11.16 a.m.) London, Feb. 17. Vehement charges of ruthless oppression in Poland, suppression of newspapers and free speech and police torture to extract confessions, are contained in the Hon. Sir G. Beckett’s and Mr A. Stepherd’s preliminary report to the House of Commons. They propose publishing photographs bearing out revolting crimes, exceeding those of Czarist Russia and declare that all printing is censored and that they know many cases of the police beating prisoners and even burning them with electric wires, while uncorroborated evidence of Secret Service agents suffices to convict youth to savage sentences of five years and ten years. Thousands of schools are closed and the teaching of languages is forbidden. Cultural organisations and workers’ clubs have closed and the whole machinery of State is being employed to crush the peasants. Contracts are never given to firms employing Jews. The wages of agriculturists is 3d a day.—(Sydney "Sun” cable).
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 57, 18 February 1927, Page 5
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167Ruthless Oppression Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 57, 18 February 1927, Page 5
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