POLISH AMNESTY.
RELEASE OF 25,000 PRISONERS. POLITICALS AND CRIMINALS. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, January 0. The Warsaw correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" says that 28,000 prisoners have been released from gaols throughout Poland in accordance with the Government amnesty. It is estimated that every second prisoner in the over-crowded Polish gaols has been freed, including a fair number of Communists and 1000 Ukranians who were accused of illegal political activities. The bulk of those released, however, were sentenced for criminal offences.
The authorities are supplying those released with food, clothing and work in order to prevent them swelling the ranks of the unemployed. It is proposed to employ them on drainage in East Poland.
Some prisoners who preferred the shelter of prison to the gutters were "persuaded" to leave the gaols.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 72, 7 January 1936, Page 5
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