Word: doukhobor
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...Brisbane police might have taken a lesson from their brothers-in-arms, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. For years Doukhobors, men and women, insisted on parading naked through Saskatchewan villages. Last year Doukhobor women enraged the Mounties by sitting naked on their fences and jeering. Police officers corrected this by issuing to their men spray guns filled with itching powder...
...Doukhobor protests have been frequent in the Northwest this summer. Last week 103 "Dukes" and "Duchesses" had to be sentenced to six months at hard penal labor for parading at Nelson, B. C. At Canora, Sask., 60 more were incarcerated...