SOVIET PENAL SETTLEMENT
TERRORS OF SOLOVJESK ISLAND. (United Presß Association. —By Electric I'elegraph. —Copyright.) BERLIN, Dec. 8. The Catholic newspaper, Germania describes Soloviesk Island, in tin White Sea, where the Soviet has established a penal settlement. Among the natural terrors of an endless ic> winter, the nights are short, and the summer is attended*- by plagues oi wasps and mosquitoes. r l he Soviet lias imprisoned there, twelve Bishops, eighteen Roman Catholics, many Russian orthodox priests, hundreds o| Catholic Laymen and many Sisters o! Mercy, housing them with eleven thousand- criminals. Last, year 3,214 prisoners died. Bishop Dhei-bigny of the Oriental Mission, says nobody in Europe real is es the violence of their treatment. Seventy Priests are packed in one small dungeon, of which the window is only open twenty minutes daily Warden,s fieuul'isly deLight to send the ' nuns to the men’s barracks where they are molested by the prisoners.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1928, Page 6
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150SOVIET PENAL SETTLEMENT Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1928, Page 6
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