GREAT PRIVATIONS
Spanish Prisoners Escape
London, Jan. 16.
A message from Lisbon states that Twenty-nine Spanish prisoners, implicated in Monarchist rioting, who escaped from Villa Cisneros, landed in Portugal after a voyage of 1800 miles in a 100-ton fishing boat in which they eluded Spanish warships searching for them. When brought here from the fishing village where they landed, they were assured of all facilities a hospitable nation could provide for political refugees.
Don Alfonso, cousin of the ex-King, said that the conditions at Villa Cisneros were terrible. After being warned that they might be tried and sentenced without legal advice, they took advantage of the New Year celebrations and were able'to get away in a fishing boat provided by friends. They suffered great privations owing to the boat getting lost in the high seas and the motor failing. They sighted four merchantmen but were afraid to signal lest they be Spanish. The “Daily Mail’s” Lisbon correspondent says that the Portuguese Governmnet has decided to place no restrictions ou the liberty of the Spanish escapees. Most of them, including Alfonso, intend to live in Portugal, and others in France and England, where they have relatives.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 99, 20 January 1933, Page 9
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