Brutal Cruelty
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BY SECRET POLICE Mennonite Refugees Locked In Waggons BOUND FOR THE UNKNOWN.
(Reoeived This Day, Noon.) LONDON, Dec. 2. Tlie Daily Mail's correspoudent at Riga tells amazing stories of secret police brutality.^ He related that 235 Mennonites arrived at Riga, accompanied by 165 children. Many were arrested at inidr.lglit and forced into uuheated, padlocked freight waggons and are at present slowly proceeding to an uuknown destination in tlie Omsk district, wh "-e the teinperature is 30 below zero. Tlie secret police were obliged ro manaele the men and bind the women witli ropes to prevent them tlirowiog themselves under the wheels of the ltiotor waggons. Scoi'es lost their reason. When arrested tlie reiuge.es, With tcars streaiuing down their clieeks, pleaded to the Gernian Minister, rierr Latvia, who luet them at Riga station, to save their co-re1igionists, of whom about 6000 remain at Moscow.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 259, 3 December 1929, Page 7
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151Brutal Cruelty Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 259, 3 December 1929, Page 7
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