Those About to Die Forced to Dig Their Graves Helsingfors, Nov. 4. graphic description of the con-prevailing " among the Russian political prisoners banished the. ill-reputed Solvoietskoi monastery on the shores of the White Sea is given by a little troop of fugitive prisoners who, after undergoing enormous hardships and auch suffering reached Finland.
Their vivid story which is given much prominence in the Seandinavian press reveals the fact that, when detailed for wood cutting the fugitives killed their guards with axes and escaped' into the woods. After marching for. a fortnight Unrough wild forests. where they lived on berries and while many of them died, some reached Finnish soil.
'The condi the prisoners' camp at Solvofetskoi monastery ace described as terrible. Every breach of the rules is, according to the. fugitives' story, punished in a most draconic manner. The fugitives state that most of the inmates of the prisoners' camp are il especially the women. One of the fugitives reports that last winter several hundreds of the members an orthodox sect were banished from Russia on account of thei religious balief and were killed outright by being compelled to sleep in the open until they were frozen to death. The authorities had, however, prior to their death Yereed them ' to dig their own graves.—Trans-Ocean Kuo M
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