BRUTALITY BY CHEKA
MENNONITES DRIVEN MAD IN CAPTIVITY
REFUGEES REACH RIGA United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 9 a.m. LONDON, Monday. The “Daily Mail’s” correspondent at Riga tells amazing stories of Cheka brutality. lie relates that 235 Mennonites arrived at Riga, accompanied by 165 children. They say that thousands were arrested at midnight and forced into unheated and padlocked freight-wagons. Presently they were slowly proceeding to an unknown destination in the Omsk district, where the temperature is 30 degrees below zero. The Cheka members were obliged to manacle the men and bind the women with ropes, to prevent their throwing themselves under tlie wheels of motor-wagons. Scores of them lost their reason when they were arrested. Refugees, with tears streaming down tlieir cheeks, pleaded with the German Minister to Latvia, who met them at the Riga station, to save their co-religionists, of whom about 6,000 remain at Moscow.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 836, 3 December 1929, Page 9
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