PORTUGUESE PRISONS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 24 December 1913, Page 5

PORTUGUESE PRISONS.

STRONG CRITICISM

BY CABfcB—PBISS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT. ' LONDON, Dec. 23. ' The D#ily Chronicle, summing up a series of articles written by Mr Phillip <Gibbs, a we.ll-known journalist, after a visit to Portuguese prisons, 6ays that the priesthood is hostile, to the Republic, jbut the Goyernement is notjusti- ' :, fied >in■ violating the customs of human- ■ ■■' ■^y^'^M':^''^''-:ry^■''■''■■ \ .-.:'■ ■■'*?"' ":■' ..'■.:'•".ws^^P4:"f'otind Syndicalisms and Be- "•".• pinblj^a^^, in addition :to Royalists^ ltiip^iMnMj without trial; insoraei hoi-' ', • :xible': ydaiinipcaverns near Lisbon. He* ;. a priest who was iii^^^p^j,; in March, 1911, in solitary |||||p|^^neTnent in a dark, noisome cell, I^M'ecallin.e; the days of lnediaevalisirr. 't.'*''?SeHor Coelho and his wife were in soljta'r.v -confineTnerit for refusing, to diTUlge the names of persons involved in . «, ■- conspiracy of which they profess

"ignorance. v&^T/H©: Daily;:. Chronicle -advises the Sf^ro^iijgues^^overhment to proclaim a .^'-•p^Jtlcal a^pt|<sty. Though these 6canr dais are ncl' as hqrtibje as those' dis- \ «clost?d\in Mr Glad^fefiß^W pamphlet on nNeapol^anX prisons in. 1850, they are "bad enough to justify _ indignant pro-^ •tests from Great Britain.