NAKED PRISONERS.
COMPLAINT IN INDIA
CALCUTTA Dec. 12. A debate, marked by impassioned speeches, and at times extreme heat, ended in tho Bengal Legislative Conncii carrying against the Government, by eight votes, a motion, for the adjournment, to discuss the recent treatment of political prisoners. A complaint was made that three prisoners‘were transferred, at a moment s notice, without any clothing, from Berhamporc to Hazaribagh gaols. Sir Hugh Stephenson, replying on belialf of tho Government, proved that the prison authorities were faced with virtual mutiny. There was always much troublo at Berliampore, on account' of the number of political prisoners there. When they were told of their transfer the three prisoners refused to go. They became most abusive, and declined to put on tho ample warm clothing with which they were supplied by the authorities.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 24, 28 December 1925, Page 11
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135NAKED PRISONERS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 24, 28 December 1925, Page 11
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