LISBON STRIKERS
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TRIAL BY COURT-MARTIAL PRISONERS IN DUNGEONS. Received This Morning, 12.20 o'clock. LISBON, February 2. The Chamber has approved of the Government's Bill to try the strikers by court-martial, in batches' of 25, without a preliminary inquiry or right of appeal except to the Supreme courtmartial. When, the Bill was read Senor Machade Santos exclaimed: "It is just like one of Jose Franco's decrees." The Chronicle's Lisbon, correspondent states that hundreds of political prisoners are herded in dungeons, 45 feet below the ground. They are fed on mouldy bread, and water unfit to drink. Typhoid is common.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10549, 3 February 1912, Page 5
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107LISBON STRIKERS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10549, 3 February 1912, Page 5
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