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...screamed newspaper headlines. At Euston Station three trains from the north failed to turn up for more than a day. Two main lines to Scotland did not function for days. Viscount Home, chairman of Great Westtern Railway, and 300 other passengers spent two days and a night in cold, bedless coaches. Up in Scotland 400 travelers were stranded at isolated Crawford, on Beattock Moor, in Lanarkshire. An inn proprietor put them up, rationed her small supply of food, then four days later frantically telephoned an S O S to Glasgow: "We are absolutely starving...
...mountain town of Leninsk-Kuznetski three ambitious agents of the NKVD (Commissariat for Home Affairs) and the acting city prosecutor, unable to fabricate cases against adult victims, took to arresting children for "Fascist terroristic activities." Scores were thrown into bedless, crawling cells along with common criminals and political prisoners. In their reports the purgers concealed the children's ages, passed them off as grown youths. Some of the child victims were shipped off to prisons in other cities, others were kept in Leninsk-Kuznetski and questioned night after night...
...father, Henry Newman Riley, a paperhanger, and his wife Elsie, the little girl's stepmother, were put on trial for "feloniously torturing, cruelly beating, abusing and otherwise maltreating" the child. Francis Riley, 15. testified that for four years his sister had been a prisoner in the black and bedless basement closet. She was beaten with sticks and shoes. After one beating, Francis told how he found some of Edith's teeth on the basement floor. So secret had the Riley's kept their closet child that their boarders never guessed her presence...
...French Government cared not for the Congress. Accordingly, the Bretons discovered that all the Chateaulin hotels had been occupied by gendarmes. Bedless, therefore, the autonomists slept on lawns, and the cool night air of Brittany did the rest...
...days and bedless nights...