Half famished, and clad only in underwear, the rabbi of the Russian town of Anapolie was found unconscious on the outskirts of the Polish city of Ostrog today. Anapolie is a town not far from the Russo-Polish border.
When he was revived he told a harrowing story of his experiences in fleeing officers of the Russian secret police from whom he had escaped by fleeing across the border.
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