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Show SUFFERING GREAT IN BOLSHEVIK PRISONS Newspaper Correspondent Tolls b the, Fearful Couditions Which Existed in House of Detention, l,nDONr. Nov. i."!. Sufferings of some of the British residents of Moscow lit lie Bolshevik prisons In thai city, whom they were kept for six weVks after having been arrested by Urn red guards upon flimsy pretexts, :ire vividly portrayed by fitly Berlnger, a Renter correspondent at Moscow, who was set. free ca i-ly this month and has reached Tlaparanda, Sweden. Swe-den. Beringer. In his report wired from Map-aranda, Map-aranda, says he was arrested while in the home of Hie British chaplain, adjoining lh British consulate In Moscow, ant together to-gether with the chaplain ami several other Kriglish men and wonWn was marched on foot two miles t brooch t ho streets to tho Lubvanka house of detention. deten-tion. "I was separated from my companions and was led to a room in which wore -Homo tliirty .prisoners, mostly civilians. Including; a few women," writes Mr. Beringer. Ber-inger. .spent five days and nights in fills room. In which there whi just sufficient suf-ficient space fur the inmates to sleep on I he floor. "There vp s no hod of a ny k i nd ; for food we had a piec of black bread hm.J a few ()fpfl with a w nodep spoon inlo a howl of the thinnest possible Va hhacc ioup. containing son it herrinc heads. Kiehl of us had to sharp the contents of this one bow 1. Ma ny people who u em without provisions from outside were literally lit-erally In a state of starvation'' |