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Show If the stories which come from Portland prison, England, where political po-litical prisoners are convicted, are true, England and her Gladstone need not shed tears for Armenians, for the cruelties which the Kurds have practiced are but humane acts compared with the refined tortures practiced in this hell-hole of Merry England. Prisoners are cast into dungeons where the light of day never penetrates and pure air never never circulates; where filth abounds and starvation is resorted to; where men are lashed to death on the slighest pretext and their arms twisted twist-ed into knots; where a word from the outside world is never heard and the prisoners are left in suspense and misery in the knowledge that kind missives from mother, sister, or brother have been received but may not reach them until years afterwards. Nearly every man pardoned from this pit of tortures has become demented. de-mented. The stories are too terri-able terri-able to be true. Ogden Standard. a t |