Prisoners concentrated in the Far East from every part of the union are now engaged in the' construction of a Soviet Russia "Maginot Lins" of defence along the Manchoukuo frontier as far as the port of Viadivostok, according to the Moscow correspondent of the "Svenska Pressen."
The newspaper claims that a considerable number of large concentration camps have been built for the accommodation of prisoners, the biggest being at the small town of Novokresnovsk in the Amur district, The administrative personnel for such camps has been drawn from the Komsomol (Communist Youth) organization.
Prisoners, it says, are obliged to build their own log barracks, sleeping. under the open sky until such are ready, 'A large camp to be situated at Chita, im Baikal, will be reserved for prisoners of 'a hardened criminal type, The newspaper claims that train after train of prisoners is being hastily dispatched to the Far East—
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