A Russian Scandal
PROTEST BY ALL EUROPE.
POLITICAL PRISONERS' HELL.
[By Electric Telegraph-—Copyright] [United Press Association.) (Received 9.20 a.m.) London, November 2d.
A protest against 11 it* torture of political prisoners in Russia is being published throughout Europe, and. is signed by Lord Lytton, Josiah Wedgwood, Ramsay MacDonald, M.B-, C anon Doyle, Sir G. Wells, Jerome K. Jerome, Maurice Hewlett, Laurence living. Professors J. B. Burg, Gilbert, .Murray, and many others abroad. The document declares that since 190 d, when the C/.ar promised liberty to tlu> Russian people, 157,000 have been imprisoned, and ."5(1(10 executed.
Starvation and most barbarous treatment have made the prisons a bell. The sum of 21 d daily, which was allowed for food, was mostly pocketed by the officials. The prisoners are packed into overcrowded dirty rooms devoid of the simplest hygienic equipment. They are almost deprived of medical assistance, and become victims of all kinds of epidemics. Many committed suicide, and tons of thousands are deported to Siberia without trial, and where many perished for want of food, clothing, and
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 73, 26 November 1913, Page 5
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176A Russian Scandal Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 73, 26 November 1913, Page 5
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