THE PORTUGUESE PRISON ERS.
[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR...1 THE Portuguese Legation begs to observe that on the very same day (the 11th inst.) whilst your journal, repeating the malevolent insinuations scattered in the English press by the enemies of Portugal, put in doubt whether the political
prisoners to whom the clemency of the President of thee Republic was extended were or were not set at liberty. other British papers announced that these prisoners had been, liberated.
The Legation has to state without further comment that all were in fact set at liberty ; that all of them had been tried. and condemned by the Courts as conspirators and were undergoing their respective sentences, and that amongst them were no syndicalists whatever.
The Portuguese Legation does not doubt that the Spectator will be good enough to publish the present statement.
Portuguese Legation : October 13th, 1913.
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