?LISH COMMUNISTS' ?UTHLESS METHODS

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5295, 7 January 1947, Page 5

?LISH COMMUNISTS' ?UTHLESS METHODS

(Press. Assn.—

[lECTION CAMPAIGN torkers tortured INTO submission

Rec. 9.80 p.m.)

\ LONDON, Jan. 6. [With the Polish election bpFoaching, the Daily Tele[aph's Warsaw correspond|t interviewed a number of Lasant Party support ers who |scri.bed how the communistIntrolled Securitv Poiice, lowr as U.B., arrested, intiEdated. and tortured them. [he victim.Y stories include: — I : After signing che list Ixirtiiiu Peasant Party eandiI, TUI. nm-sted him and tried to ti- hira his iu\me from the [ Ii .va.- ounehed and beaten h ;i mihi! r .jiose and fell uncon|us. H' uas made to croueh m'! tYr hours, was kicked I d with a pistol. I rau, ■!.■• niddle-rlass woman: Ir si«_* ?> i? !.• ihe IV-asant Party list I i'oivc l '•! stand for five hours I;: A • ii Puiv below freezing It ut\. -■"?!«.' i'ainted. I nu-fhaiiir: Ile withdrew his sig|n> ?•. . *;i!i 'Yeodom. A poliee- ( i >hl ; i "Tho whole Peasant

Iy sm. - with Mikolakczyk Iie h1 {ramoe pmpriotor: He was ar|o(l f'.v • .ikvtin.tr money to buy Bni'tr .>>• tho Peasant Party. He ■sea '.i a -wer questions by a lorne! Ha.- ian ofticer and lu* I tdi.i iu. was one of those I wa? • ihe Russians out of Kml :\:A ■ Mikolakczyk, leader Ihe !' a • Party, was a bandit ■vin.: f..r i.endon. "We shall Rr aliew v.>ur party to go to the Iv.-imwo. i-\- ry worker: She had ■tinei ir. .! . -rtyard J'or 5 hours ■io . )••>.. T c U.B. Chief asked Ro. •!.. i., ii.ag; to a party which ■nam-e.i : 1'ngland, a country »!' '> ;-m» ring atom bombs to KThc cevs-«':.pendent says he does ■ find j* o-v.y to believc these ■pie '.vrro !yiug or exaggerating. Ky ran *j, great a risk in talking ■ nn Ei5gh.-i.aian because their ■vemenj" were closeiy watched.