With regard to the more serious Res of torture which have Particularly excited public Dr. Hu Shih states that, as far as his careful enquiries go, he was unable to obtain the slightest. evidence that such tortures were.
'A Committee belonging to the Rights, namely Dr. Hu Shih, Mr. Yang Chuan and, thong Ping' had only quite! recently, on January 31, paid a Visit of' inspection to the Military Refo and two other prisons. They had every facility of talking to the prisoners, and in one or two. cases Dr. Hu Shih was able to converse with them in English. The conditions in the pr tted, were not but although the pri plained quite freely treatment and indignities, none of them even hinted at any' torture The chief grounds of complaint put] forward were the fetters, the small-eas of the room containing several persons, poor food, lack of heating, and prohibition of' reading news pol apers. ina later message to the Press there was published another star nient from the League for Civi Rights at Shanghai to the effect that' the prison authorities Nad sequently the findings of the in-1 committer were quite valueless.
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