| Show plain for siberian convicts in ill a report prep prepared aLred for the ministerial in asteria commission which tv idoll is 13 now carside considering ail ri a th the 0 p project ot of gradually diverting 1 the tr transportation por tation of convicts from siberia to the island ot of alien anil and certain districts in ill the trans trails caucasian and central asia frontier provinces tho ilia inspection 0 of the thumen route to siberia states during the decade of ct c t SC prisoners passed along that highway of this number no less than 2867 died on the way and were veto sent from Atch At chinsk insl to the most remote eastern settlements tile the report furnishes no record 0 of the probably larger dr ger number who perished on oil the latter part pan of the iha journey it is also silent as to the cause of the 2907 3 deaths between thumen anil and Al At chinsk the tact fact cannot however be disguised that the horrible hardships awl anil stiffe sufferings rings under which so large a number of 0 khz these unfortunate exiles exilea sink on fill ill the way ar are a standing blot on oil the penal legis legislation Ution of rus itus sia cleveland leader |
