The Press Bureau has published, at the request of the
Russian Embassy, a narrative of the insults, privations, and assaults suffered by Russian subjects in Germany after the outbreak of war. All the facts have been carefully verified, and the names of the chief victims are given. The story of the violent treatment which the staff of the Russian Embassy endured is already well known, but here we have the first detailed evidence of the cruel treatment of the hundreds of Russians who were convoyed to the frontier. As an example We may mention the case of one party of sixty travellers who were not allowed for seventy hours to leave the railway carriages more than once. All this time they were refused not only food but water. They were mocked by mobs and told that they were to be shot. Many of the women and children fainted or developed hysterics. So far as we know, the Germane have been unable to complain of any brutal conduct to German subjects in Russia, though it would not Lave been surprising if, in such an unwieldy and partially controlled country as Russia, the strong feelings of the crowds bad sometimes violated the wishes of the authorities. Yet the Germans solemnly call the Russians barbarians l
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