The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-10

yolng men and three girls were arrest ed in Moscow while reading and dis cussing a political work by Russian writer. Without any form of trial they were, under this administrative pro cess," exiled to the mines.
 On arriving at Tomsk the unfortunate exles were forced to walk to Irkutsk, tho capital of eastern Siberia.
 The distance between the two towns is 10aJ miles, and the exiles, whether young or old, are always expected to travel at the rate of sixty miles week.
 Irkutsk is the destination of many of Russia's exiles; but the party of young people we are referring to were driven on to the mines of Kara, some seven hundred miles further east. The mines here are gold ones, and are the per sonal property of the Czar, and the young men of this party are now as sisting in working them; but what IS the fate of their lady comrades can only be conjectured.
 me unfortunate man or woman who is sent to Yakutsk rarely lives to re- tura This place Is but few degrees south of the Arctic Circle, and the only buildings 1t boasts of are rude huts, principally roofed with mud.
 The revolutionary, Leo Deutsch, who served sixteen years in Siberia, tells us that he spent several years in the "primeyal wilderness" of Yakutsk here, he says, in 1889 were some young men and girls who were to be deported further northward There were school girls among them under 16 years of age.
 The vice governor had given orders ! that these exiles were to be deported without delay, and guard told them to I betake themselves to the police. Fear ing that they were to be sent to liv' l ing tomb without time for protest, they refused to obey the order.
 The vice governor thereupon sent a troop of soldiers to fetch the exiles, and a frightful scene began that even shamed savage Russia. The soldiers 1 clubbed the young men and girls with the butts of their rifles, stabbed them ". h bayonets and shot them down un- T, -'cifully.
 Six corpses were left on the ground, ana the dying and maimed, numbering 27, were thrust into prison. A few days later the imprisoned exiles were tried by courtmartial. Three were con demned to death and executed, and l9 were sentenced to penal servitude for | life.
 The prisons throughout Siberia are | of dreadful character. They are over | crowded with exiles, and the atmos phere in consquence and through lack | of ventilation, becomes so foul that the women are sometimes attacked by fainting two or three times a day
 The beds of the exiles absolutely swarm with vermin, and no attempt IS ever made to rid them of the pest. The treatment meted out to women conyicts is brutal in the extreme. and 1t makes ones blood run cold to think that human beings should be at the mercy of the savage soldiers in the employ of the Czar.
 While Leo j. eutsch was at Yakutsk a woman, by name Nadyeshda Sigida, was flogged to death. She was al legged to have assaulted the command ant. and the governor general ordered that she should be subjected to cor poral punishment. Sigida was, there fore, flogged, dying after the last blow had fallen upon her back.
 Such are the horrors and sufferings that have to be endured by the wretched mortals in the living tombs of Siberia