PORTUGUESE PRISONS
MEDIAEVAL METHODS VICTIMS IN HORRIBLE CAVERN, A POLITICAL AMNESTY ADVISED. fcr Teleitaph—Prtrj Association—CoprrlxW (Received December 23, 10.46 p.m.) LONDON, December 23. The “Daily Chronicle,” summing up a series of articles by Jtr Philip Gibbs, written after a visit to the Portuguese prisons, says that tho priesthood is hostile to tho Republic,but that tho Government was not justified in violating the customs of humanity. Mr Gibbs found that Syndicalists and Republicans, in addition to Royalists, wore imprisoned without trial, some in a horrible damp cavern near Lisbon. Figucrodo, a priest, who was arrested in March, 1911, was scut to solitary confinement in a dark and noisome cell, recalling modiaovalhni. Benor Ooclho and Iris wife wero condemned to solitary confinement for refusing to divulge tho names of persons involved in a conspiracy of which they profess ignorance. Tho “Chronicle” advises tho Portuguese Government to proclaim a political amnesty. Though tho scandals are not so horrible' as those disclosed in Mr Glodstone’s pamphlet on tho Neapolitan prisons in 1860, they are bad enough to justify indignant protests from Great Britain.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8612, 24 December 1913, Page 4
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