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BRITISHER IN A LIVING TOMIL

A LAND OF JAIL HORRORS.

For a month 'Captain Brining, of Liverpool, master of the British steamer "Ninian." has been lying a Venezuelan prison awaiting His imprisonment followed a col- lision at Puerto Cabello between the "Ninian" and a mooring vessel, re- sulting in the death of a Venezue- lan boatman.

trial.

Sir Austen Chamberlain stated in Parliament recently that there were, at present, no grounds for protest, because Captain Brining's imprisonment was in accordance with Venezuelan law; but he added that the British Minister at Caracas was "taking such unofficial action as he properly can to assist Cap tain Brining and tó expedite, a hear- ing of his case,"

A letter has been received in London, however, from Captain W. H. Coombs, a Director of the Navigators and General Insurance Co., Ltd., in which he says:

Representations have been made on his (Captain Brining's) behalf to the Foreign Office, and the mat- ter has been ventilated by a ques- tion in the House of Commons, but the fact remains that Captain Brin- ing is still imprisoned, and reports of conditions obtaining in Vene- zuelan jails are not reassuring to his relatives and friends.

The official view, which no doubt is meticulously accurate, appears to be that nothing illegal has been done by the Venezuelan authorities, and that it would, in fact, be quite proper if Captain Brining's case is ut heard by the Courts for the next five years.

Surely it should be possible for the Government forcefully to re- present the British view that a trial should take place within a human ly reasonable time of an alleged offence? The time for strong ac- tion is overdue.

Tae point of Captain Coombs' al- underlined by the details which we publish to-day from a Correspon dant, who declares that this South American Republic has become "the Siberin of the Western World," says the "Daily News."

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A list of evils so incredible that it scarcely seemed worth serious attention reached me recently. From the lips of men who have suffered, or actually seen every one of the horrors I thought impossible in this cuntury, I have the story, told in the most convincing way.

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The men I have met are among an army of 60,000 exiles who have fled from Venezuela since President Gomez thrust himself into power. Their case has been largely present ed in their own language, Spanish, If they had a part of the ability to appeal to the English-speaking peoples that the political victims of the Russian Taars possessed, their story would have been ringing

round the world.

Two Years in Dungeon. There is a young man of 18 now following his profession near New York and studying in evening classes.

The one into which he was thrust to remain for two years had a damp earth floor. Ne provision was made for convenience except a bucket. The prisoners slept in their clothes on the floor or leaning against the wall. Vermin of every kind, rats, mice, fleas, mosquitoes and some varieties peculiar to South America, pestered them night and day.

Prison "Food."

Their "food" consisted of a small cup of coffee and about fifteen black beans each morning and the beans and a piece of bread in the evening. The guards were all men taken from the criminal jails of the coun- His father, a medical man in try. Men might fall sick, die, or Venezuela, received a hint that he go raving mad, they paid no atten- was to be arrested. He escaped, as tion once the door was locked at did his two elder and two youngerduak. sons, hut a victim was found in my The prison was full of men liv informant, a slim youth of 24, who ing under similar conditions. They was thrown into prison next day without a word of explanation, with no pretence, of trial and without any opportunity to communicate with a friend.

His cell, four yards by fourteen, was a tunnel underground with one door, but no window, and he shared it withi 19 others. His prison, Puerto Cabello is the best of the four political prisons.

They are all old Spanish prisons dating from the Spanish colonisation, when these dungeons were built,

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were allowed neither to read, ror write, to engage in no kind of oc- cupation or pastime, not even to have daylight except for a few min- utes each day in the exercise yard. He had nothing to do but talk for two years, and at the end of that time. broken in spirit but proud. emaciated by hunger, wasted by low fever, he was released as casually as he had been imprisoned.

Mr. Flores Cabrerd, who is now

supporting himself in New York by translation or proof-reading work. is another witness to Venezuelan prison horrors. Because, 08 AM editor, he published an article cri- ticising a corrupt administrative appointment he, too, was thrown into prison for two years and then flung out as he had been thrown in. When talking to me he stooped and turned up his trouser leg.

developed healthy women, their health If growing girls are to become well- must be carefully watched.

A broad band of dead white flesh, should ignore their unsettled moods, or from his ankle to his shin.

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"Chains," said our interpreter. tant time of life.

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In this part of Venezuela the climate is tropical, and they stewed in the heat of the day and then did. not dare to lie down at night on the chilly floor.

For five months Mr. Cabrera was not allowed to leave his cell a mo- ing remained unwashed and an- ment for any purpose. His cloth- changed. His food, like that of the other prisoners, consisted of one plantain, a fruit like a large banana, each day.

Wherever prisoners were group- ed together they were given a pail: of water to share like animals.

Men in Agony,

For most of the time Mr. Cabrera had the companionship of other pri- soners. The cell, he shared with five other prisoners was 18 ft. by 12 ft. They were never allowed to shave: They never had enough water to drink, and none for wash- ing.

Men in an agony of filth and disease cried aloud for water, for food, for polson, or a weapon with which to kill themselves.

The four political prisons of Venezuela have within recent years confined several thousand men at a time.

Even to-day, when 60,000 exiles have been driven from the country, and all others with an inclination. toward independence terrorised by their fate, 500 men are buried alive

in the four political prisons which Gomez maintaina.

Guarded by criminals who are torturers rather than warders, starved, neglected, poisoned, beaten. some of the ablest professional and official citizens of Venezuela have been put to death on the whim or the suspicion of the ruling clique.

The annual visit of a British naval force to the Baltic" which was omitted last year-nominally for reasons of economy, but actually on account of industrial unrest at Home is to be resumed this summer. The Second Crui- ser "Squadron" and Fifth Des- troyer Flotilla" will make a tour of Scandinavian ports, but apparently they will keep farther away from Soviet waters then usual. However, this need not prevent the Red Admiral re- peating his absurd attitude of 1925, when he announced his in- tention to mine the Gulf of Finland, and martial law was actually proclaimed in Kronstadt on the news that a British squadron was coming that way. The Admiralty does not regard the Baltic as one of our "strate- gical zones," and these are merely visits of a friendly flag- showing nature, Good taste dictates the elimination of Ger- many from the programme,

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