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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH, 1919.

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TURKISH PRISON HORRORS. nuptive through starvation and mal

PESTILENCE AND FAMINE.

STAMBOL AS THE ALLIES FOUND IT.

nutrition, and many forms of illness, | chiefly "cyphus and syphilis, were raging! ninong them, There way not even a pre- tence of their being givou Any medical attention.

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It has been truly said that the only Their diet, which consistel of a very cheap thing in Turkey to-day is humanepted once daily by a cupful of so-called ware and indigestible Bend, is mug, life, and humane treatment of prisoners soup, so repulsive in taste and smell that! is quite outside Turkish comprehension.

the prisoners in their venOLIA This remark by Vice-Admiżni Calthorpe hunger often turned away from it in disgust I wlt it, and the stench was in a series of reports now issued Id overpowering; taste it was impossible. Faper. 2601 is only too faithfully curro- The sanitary arrangements, of rather the lack thereof, arg best left to the ins burated by the evillence furnished of the

agination. The authorities seem to have appalling contlitions in the Turkish pris.

no concerning to sending the sick prison. Q0S of Constantinople and plsewhere.ers at this place to any bapital. Eying Improvement by the Turkish authorities behind the door of one of these noisone dans saw a man in a peculine attitude.. As the High and it only required a second glance to was not to be expected. Commissioner say in hindther report, the ww that he was dying, probably from whole system is so horeycombed withphus. In a dark corner in the same room were four terms: two of these were bribery and corruption that it was hope just able to more, while the others show- less to expect" any real alteration while the Turks remained their own masters. Fortunately under the Armistice there are means of compulsion available, and in six months some radical and humune changes have been fereed upon them.

The corruption of Turkish officials was evident in the Central Prison at Stum bul, A long imprisonment here merely

no signs of life. It is not dificult to conjecture their condition..

This is description of the worst prison of all, but the Central Prisons of Constantinople were not much better. Their state was such that the only thing to be coin with dheur was absolutely to destroy them. Thanks to the purging pro in other prisons also, the worst Ad. was of the dungeons were also closed. When lingering death. TL

axiral, Webb had the temerity to venture British naval offer paid a surprise visit into one of these, though nothing bad he found that no one had tested food for been dure to clean it up. Ás & conge the past 24 hours. Temporary pandequence." he say we emerged simply muafum reigned when he asked Have smothered in swarms of fens which re you had enough to ut They rap gained an unhappy merry for some to the prison director, Husein Füad, days." screaming out. He steals our food; it is be who sell our rations, and now when you have left he will have us beat These prisoners were half-naked fonsy human beings with shrunken, wasted bodies and ravenous eyes. When protests were made against the famine diet; the Beinls replied, May you all die; that will mean so many less for our country to feed."

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The first efforts of the Allied authoritics bad been met with the usunt Turkish procrastination and evasion, but these methods now no longer availed. Jaquary abundent promises were made, and new credits were voted...for better food and clothing and for facilities for cleanliness. These promises were unres deemed, but the peremptory demands of Admiral Calthorpe in March «ffected a A month later, Rear- The prison hospitals were a travesty transformation. of the same. In one, visited by Rear Admiral Webb. acting for the High Admiral Webb, the beds were crawling Comissioner, was able to report the ith verming and the emaciated patients following improvements. The food was

and almost palatable ** were covered from head to fout with sores now and mange. The Turkish doctor who narishing, the accommodation was somet a snug, olenginous person," whas cleaner, and the prisoners them. said he was really very sorry for his selve had lost the haunted jook of star. vation: The sanitation was improved, patients, but that he had no funds. It is

the clothing of prisoners WIN ot surprising that at a later date the and

better. Admiral remarks. "I am more than ever Sonvinced that were we to relax our vigilance the old state of things would inevitably recur.”.

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In addition, the reforms mentioned above by the closing' of the most noisome prisons and the liberation of "certain categories of prisoners also arded to the TWENTY-FIVE MONTHS WITHOUT TRIAL

credit of the Allied Commissier. A great, What adds to the darkness of the if spasmodic, step in advance had been picture is that this treatment was applied taken. For Admiral Webb is compelled to persons against whom no crime hnd

to add that the changes made were deeply been proved. In the Maison d'Arrêt, patresented by some of the prison officials, Stambul, for example, a great majority | who would be only too glad of „an no. had been waiting trial for four months, portunity of rauming the old horrible, many for from six to 12 months, some as long as 25 months. The mortality during this time was, of course, extremely high, As an illustration There was a boy | - Greek-18 years old, who had been im

prisoned 12 months before with five panions. None of the six had been tried Now this boy was a wasted skeleton, and his five companions were dead. Sitch cases, says Admiral Webb, eguld be multi plied ad infinitum,

conditions Nothing but a constant walch' by the Entente nathorities, he was con vinced, could prevent a return to the old régime,

With reference to Armenian and other prisoners in whom the Allies "took a special interest, the Ottoman Govern ment were given to understand that clause of the Armistice terms way to be interpreted to include all Christians and hatives of countries under Allied occupa tion. As the result of pressure the Otto- man Government passed a new amnesty law, the substaner of which was that every one should be released except those already condemned or awaiting trial for murder," rape, or political offence.-The

NO BOLSHEVISM NEXT WINTER.

M. KERENSKY INTERVIEWED.

The very large Greek and Armenian population of Constantinople made this question one of particular interest to the Allied Powers, for the charge against many of these prisoners-Greek, and Armenians was only that of desertion. Fortunately Clause of the Armistice Timex. gave the High Commission special powers In to deal with cases of this kind. March he requested Reshid Pasha to issue directions without delay for the release of (1) All awaiting trial over three months, not accused of murder, and all awaiting trial over five months, even if accused of murder; (2) all non-Moslems acruad of, or condemned for, desertion or any military or political offerce.

It must be said that the firned Vizier. Damad Ferid Pasha, showed both energy and goodwill, but he was struggling Do you mean that Russia is going to against a system. The demands above become sane that soon!" mentioned, however, were complied with. Yes, I do. Here is what is going to Exceptions were very properly made in happen in Russia, mark my words. The the case of those accused of participating power of the Rea Bolsheviks is waning. in the deportations and massacres of Koltchak and the other reactionaries are The armies day. Christians, and also war profiteers. As a gaining ground every consequence, by April 8th. the Con of Lenin and Trotsky are fading away. Before long the Red Belshevism will stantinople Central Prisons, which con tained 450 prisoners & week before, then disappear in Russia, and then will cause had only 107 inmates, and the number rule of the reactionaries."

White Bolshevism, the White Terror, the on the roll at the Galata Serai Prison

There will be no Bolshevism in Russia next winter," said Kerensky with a smile in an interview at Paris with a London correspondent.

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And is the

were reduced from C7 to 17. The same horrors in Russia. going to wes inɑre'

liberation measures were understood to have been taken in the provinces

swinging very

*** By next winter too."

Not for long. Every revolution in bistory bas gone like the Russian revolu- THE BLACK HOLE" OF "CONSTANTINOPLE. tion is going. The pendulum is swinging The condition, in which the prisoners back just now towards reaction. It is were kept are well portrayed in a descrip. tion of the Maison d'Arrêt nt Constan tinople. Anyone who kept wild beasts in England under similar condition would certainly be prosecuted," says the President of the International Allied Sanitary Commission, and, the following extract from a report on this place well justifies his comment:---

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ment and filthy cast-off rags of prisoners,

he continued, the masses of people will have observed the working of White Bolshevism with its terror, and they will learn from the in- effectiveness of its efforts that terrorism of no sort is wanted in Russia, neither. Red nor White, and at that very moment they will become sane and will be willing to take a sane leader."

this

Kerensky and other Russian leaders In two big rooms on the ground floor nearly all the boards of the flooring bad here in Paris are watching the growing been torn up by the prisoners for fire strength of the reactionaries in Russia, wood, as also had some of the support and they openly express the fear that the victorious reactionary armies may, go too of the staircase leading to the upper far, in their zeal towards punishing the storeys. On the ground, which had been form

former Bolsheviks and thus Iaid bare by the removal of the boards, reign of mass terror in

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create another was an indescribable collection of excre They seen to see no way of avoiding

ry leaders. reactionary military the whole being a breeding place for this except by using moral masion with vermin of all kinds. The prisoners were

When I asked Kereny what he thought lying about on the boards, and sometimes about American Bolsheviks, he laughed.

fear them even on the bare etrih, and none of these Bat we seen had any covering other than the ther in the e, se to seriously de

Our Desfspapers are carrying whole one-page, anet Against Bolshevism.'

be And then be con: indescribable stench arising from themtinued: "Why, there isn't a-gingle chance the glanin even at midday, zalieved by of Bolshevism in the United States. tiny windows high up north cailios Bolshevise cannot grow and the tatal lack of ventilation, all these where people are well-fed and generally features formed a scene which I am not content as they are in the

United States likely to forget. "Of the miserable-crea

***Bolabeviam is a discase of tried and tures Iving or sitting about on the ground exhausted nations, and of populations and floors, subsequent medical examine that have been abused for years and tion showed that between 80 and 60 per decades.. You're perfectly safe from such cent. were suffering from the mange & disease in the United States. I can (scabies). Quite a number have become, caure you.'

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