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NE of the most high handed outrages by the Bolsheviki © In Russia has been the arrest and imprisonment in the Fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul of the British residents of Petrograd. Fhe Petrograd correspondent of the London Times, who Was among those arrested, is bask in England, and has | written & description of his experi ences for his paper. 1 "We were taken from the embassy to the 'Tchrezvitchaika' en Aug. 31 and thence transferred to the Fort- Tess of St. Peter and St. Paul on Tuesday evening, Sept. 3; at five o'clock. When we went dowostalrs } between lines of soldiers into the ; here I had seen a prisoner | shot down from behind without con- demnation or warning by the soldiers 'his escort as they were bringing him out in the same way for some unknown destination, I felt serious misgivings as to our being destined for any other place than the next The first impression was horrible we filed along the long, narrow aad gloomy passage and saw the eyes Bf Brisaners eagering scanning us ugh the small holes in the doors ot their cells. These cells were. al- 'ready crammed with prisoners of all ®lasses' from princes, generals and is citizens down to proletar- Sabonds, including thieves and we § a Half d dozen other British . subjects found ourselves herded to- gether with a number of! Russian anti-Bols! t officers, who received a: Swe were altogether twenty men in a vaulted limewashed cell about 20 Fest. long by 11 feet broad and 12 feet in height, with hard cemented 2 +» In one corper near the door © was a modern latrine, also a small 'sink with a tap of running water, one bare iron bedstead fixed to the floor, 'anda small shelf fastened to the wall €lose to the bedstead and serving as a table. At one end of the cell was door with a small "peep-hole, was sometimes shut up, and at opposite end, very high up, an iron barred double window looking out against the high wall of one of the fortress ramparts. Two panes of window were left open for venti- dation, and the space between was used as a larder for keeping our food frésh as was possible. We bad to d on each other's backs to reach "were from seventy-five to €ighty of these cells along our cor 11 of the same size and type. "With 80 many human beings hud- er in a space intended for one the atmosphere was awful, re, cold floor. onotony of our existence To otherwise relieved by the wash ; of our cell once a week, for -anothi the doorholes, by listening long, long way to T popular songs asda le I --------------r HAS SITUATION ALL SIZED UP Write on Metropolitan Dally Arr.