CONVICT REPUBLIC
SOVIET’S REMEDY WHEN TROOPS MUTINY TYPHUS TAKES HEAVY TOLL LONDON, Tuesday. The Warsaw correspondent of the “Daily Express” says the Soviet’s dreaded place of deportation, Solovski Island, in the White Sea, has become a sinister "republic of the condemned.” The Soviet found that typhus and scurvy were killing off 50 per cent, of the men in the many garrison posts on the island as well as a similar proportion of convicts. Troops consequently were reluctant to go there and some mutinied.
The Soviet Government, therefore, solved the problem by creating Solovski a republic. Short-term Communist convicts are now guarding their brother convicts.
It Is alleged that the new guards practise very severe discipline under promise of remission of sentences. Many titled Tsarist Russians are among the republic’s hapless people.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1001, 18 June 1930, Page 11
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131CONVICT REPUBLIC Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1001, 18 June 1930, Page 11
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