M. Goldsky who has been in prison for the past six years for anarchistic agitations, has been hunger striking since last Saturday, and prison authorities have announced that his condition is critical.
Recent efforts looking toward the release of Goldsky, who is an old man and quite feeble, had been unavailing. Goldsky is hunger-striking because of the Government’s refusal to grant him a retrial.
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