PORTUGUESE PRISONS
DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS,
ABSENCE OF JUSTICE-
Pi«si Afjociation—Bj Telegraph—Copyright.
LONDON, December 23. (Received Dec. 23, at 10.30 p.m.)
The Daily Chronicle, in summing up a series of articles by Mr Phillip Gibbs, after a visit to the Portuguese prisons, says that the priesthood U hostile to the Republic, but the Government is not justified in violating the customs of humnaity.
Mr Gibbs found that syndicalists and Republicans, in addition to Royalists, were imprisoned without trial in some horrible damp cavern near Lisbon. A priest named Figueredo was arrested in March 1911, and placed in solitary (confinement in a'dirk and noisome cell, recalling medievalism. Senhor Coelho and his wife were placed in solitary confinement for refusing to divulge the names of persons involved in a conspiracy, of whom they profess
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15955, 24 December 1913, Page 5
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