RUSSIAN BRUTALITIES.
ILL-TREATMENT OF CONVICTS. Received December 14, 5.5 a.m. . ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 13. A number of political convicts in the Volagda gaol, who complained of their food, were flogged. Many of them afterwards committed suicide. The Duma, by 121 votes to 111, refused urgency to an interpellation charging the Government 'with taking a brutal revenge on its political adversaries, disgracing net only Russia, but the very iiame of man. Received December 14, 10 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 13. Some of the prisoners in Siberia, it i 3 stated, intended poisoning the officials, and also received money// ■ whereupon communication with the outer world was stopped. Ths, caused outbreaks among the prisoners, which were suppressed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10145, 15 December 1910, Page 5
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114RUSSIAN BRUTALITIES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10145, 15 December 1910, Page 5
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