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'WOMEN ILL-TREATED
Italian Blackshirts Accused
LETIER TO PRESS$
Grave accusations about tle treatment
of woomen engaged io politics in Italy are
contained in a letter to the London
"Dailh Herald." signed, among others. by
MIos. 'Pothick-Lnwrenec, Dr. Hewlett John
son . (Dean of Canterbury), Lord Arnold,
nad Misi Vera Brittain.
Innocent womeon, it is stated, are being
arrested in considerable numbers andl kept
a long time in prison in the hope of gct
ting from themn ineriminatiig evidence
gaogast others, while women prisoners are
conveyed from place to place inder most
exacting physical conditions.
The prison of Trani and the camp for
deportees at P'onza are said to be suchl
as to engender tuberculosis,. from which
several of the wonien who entered in good
health are now sulfferiii.
Further alleged breales of prison dis
cipline are punished with the utmost rig
our, including rweeks, and somnetimes
months, of solitary confinement, contrary
to the Italian penal code.
Women have been compelled to get up
during the nighlt to show themselves at
the door of their cells to the Blackshirts,
andl have also ibeeon stripped to discover
possible inriminating documents in the
preselece of mnole lolice.
S~everal of the womoen aroe alleged to be
danogerously ill. mention being imahde i
particular of Ciamilla RIavena. Giorgina
Roasetti, Lea Giaccaglia, and Maria Baron.
cini.
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