RUSSIAN BRUTALITIES.
FLOGGING OF PRISONERS
WARDERS SENT TO GAOL
(Received Last Night; 0.5 o'clock.)
ST. PETERSBURG. March 25,
Sixteen warders at Ekatrimburg hare been sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from 2£ 3 T ears, for cruelty. Evidence was given by one hundred witnesses, sixty of whom had been victims of thrashings with knouts made of ox-tendons wrapped in strips of raw-hide. The ends were bound with iron wire.
L. Those flogged included political prisoners. • "•• ' . ' "
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10197, 27 March 1911, Page 5
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75RUSSIAN BRUTALITIES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10197, 27 March 1911, Page 5
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