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Show I 1 A barrister-at-law writes to .the London Telegraph a letter on Russian barbarity, in which be says: "I have seen the 'knot,' so let me explain what it is. It is a lash of leather, dipped in glue and then thickly encrusted with iron filings and powdered glass. It is , not so very long since tho knout was applied to a Russian man-of-war sailor in the Mediterranean, for insubordination. in-subordination. Ono lash laid him bare of flesh from the nape of his , neck to the middle of his back; ' another 'whipped' his eye from the socket and took oQ part of. his nose. I need harbly add that he died under such cruel torture. Theae facts are woll known at Malta." |