PORTUGAL
POLITICAL PRISONERS. GENERAL AMNESTY URGED. ("Time«"-Sydney "Sun" Special Cable.) LONDON, February 9. An influential meeting, held in the Westminster Palace Hotel, urged the Government to endeavour to secure a general amnesty for all Portuguese prisoners. ■■' The Duchess of Bedford stated that numbers had been imprisoned without trial or shipped to the Azores. She could never forget the hands stretched through prison doors, the imploring eyes, and the accents of despair she had-seen and heard in the Portuguese prisons. . ,
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14898, 11 February 1914, Page 10
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