PORTUGUESE PRISONS.
ENGLISH JOURNALIST'S IN-
VESTIGATIONS
CONDITIONS STILL BAD
(By Cable.—Preea Aiaociation.—Copyright.) (Received December 24th, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 23. Tho "Daily Chronicle," summing up a series of articles by Mr Phillip Gibbs, written after a visit to Portuguese prisons, says the priesthood is hostile to the Republic, but tho Government is not justified in violating tho customs of humanity. Mr Gibbs found syndicalists and Republicans, in addition to Royalists, imprisoned •without trial, 6ome being confined in a horrible damp cavern near Lisbon. A priest, who had boon arrested in March, 1911, was suffering solitary confinement in « dark and noisome cell, his treatment recalling the methods of mediaevalisni. Sonor Coelho, and his wife, were undergoing solitary confinement for refusing to divulge tho names of persons involved in a conspiracy of which they professed ignorance.
The "Daily Chronicle" advises the Portuguese Government to proclaim a political amnesty. Though the scandal, are not so horrible as those disclosed in Gladstone's Famous pamphlet on the Neapolitan prisons, in 1850, they aro bad enough to justify tho indignant protests being made in Great Britaiu.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14857, 24 December 1913, Page 9
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