TORTURE MACHINE
KECENT USE IN SPAIN AUTHOR'S ALLEGATIONS ASTURIAN PRISONERS TREATMENT DESCRIBED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received January 25, 6.45 p.m.) LONDON". Jan. 24 The News Chronicle states that a sensational document describing the tortures and maltreatment of Asturian prisoners after the October revolution was presented to the President of Spain, Don Alcala Zamora, by the author, Senor Felix Ordas, who was Minister of Commerce in the Radical Cabinet of 1933.
The document, in the form of a book of 18,000 words, has been circulated clandestinely in Spain. The most startling accusation is that a big torture machine, copied from a specimen used in the Inquisition, was employed in a prison at Meires. Prisoners' wrists were tied and then they were hoisted by a pulley with their arms overhead.
Senor Ordas quotes four cases of men who were tortured with this machine. Also he describes instances of severe beatings. He declares that if the Republic's exist-nee necessitates such tortures it would be better for it to disappear.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22018, 26 January 1935, Page 11
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