Torture in Spain.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 232, 5 October 1904, Page 2

Torture in Spain.

A groat sulfation has been produced Uu-oughout Spain by the revelations of the prisoners who werw taken by the Government lor participation in the Anarchist demonstration at Alcala del Voile. It appiura fi'om theso recitals that the prisoners taken were submitted to tho most awful tortures ; one prisoner recites how he hud been roped, his shoes and (Hocking* torn oft, und live soles oi hia feet soundly whipped with ropes i mil they hied. At the same time the guard mockingly asked him if ho had curna. AH sorts of tortures were applied to the prisoners in the vain attempt to wrench from them Uie names of other Anarchists. Homo died In prison from the woundß inflicted by the gaolers ; others emerged from their cells more dead than alive, and wrecked for life. This treatment of political prisoners throws a shadow on Spain, and tho newspapers ore anxious to ferret out the whole truth ; the Uovernment is. however, against such radical measures, and h<ts forbidden tile publication of facts concerning tho im f . tery of Alcnln del V«Ue.

You all have seen, I have no doubt "o* many people, go about, With puffed up eyes and noses rod, A heavy feeling in the head. "Tin vondrous strange t 0 me that these Should not endeavour to uppeaso' Those ills, which they so oft ondlirr By using Woods' Great IWormtat

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