BRAZILIAN MUTINEERS.
INHUMAN TREATMENT. Ry Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Rio de Janeiro, May 29. In connection with the report cabled in January that twenty-six of the Brazilian mutineers undergoing imprisonment had died of sunstroke while ♦repairing the defences of the Island of Cobra*, and that nineteen others had succumbed to suffocation in their prison cells, the President, Marshal Foncsca, in a message to the Chamber of Deputies, admitted the death of eighteen marines, and stated that the commander of the Island of Cobras was being prosecuted. The message also justified the shooting of several others of the deported men.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 315, 31 May 1911, Page 5
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97BRAZILIAN MUTINEERS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 315, 31 May 1911, Page 5
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