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Show POLICE REPORTED CRUEL. 'W Berlin, April 11, by wireless to Say- ! ville. The Overseas News agency ' says it has received advices from Pet- rograd by way of Stockholm that the H Russian police have received wide B powers for the use of arms under the pretext that it is necessary to sup. l press lawlessness. I "The beating of persons who are arrested has been reintroduced," the I news agency continues. "The police I misuse their powers grossly. In a I village in the Petrograd government P the police, in order to obtain a con- I fession, tortured a Jew who was ac- I cused of ritual murder. A similar case is reported from Riga. The edi- 11 tor of a liberal paper was arrested on ji the pretext that ho was a thief and at i the police station he was beaten until II he bled." ;I |