The Tittles publishes a letter from a refugee Communist giving
an account of his sufferings. On May 29, 1871, after four days of hide- ous suffering on the plain of Satory, during which 60 prisoners died from the weather, he was sent with 600 others in cattle-trucks to Lorient, where he was confined on board an old man-of-war, with- out bed or covering except an old rug full of insects, and here he remained nine months, fed on rations so small that many died of starvation and the majority were attacked with scurvy. At last the writer was sent to Paris, and thence, after a stay of five hours, dismissed to Boulogne, where he was thrust on board a steamer for Folkestone, where he arrived absolutely destitute. He does not appear to have been handcuffed, but the rest of his story exactly bears out the statement of Mr. F. Harrison, that M. Thiers is rid- ding himself of batches of Communists by forcing them, hand- cuffed, in rags, and destitute, on board the steamers for England, —about as serious an outrage as this country ever sat silent under.
