The daily worker., 1925-11-18

Budapest no prisoners had been NAL
Hungarian social-democrats, Nepszava
l-"The prisoners were seriously maltrea
the fate of the arrested Communists
left socialists and Comrade Rakosi:
Gives Lie to Hiorthy.
"For days the police has stated in
propaganda-like manner that not one
of the suspected Communist prison
ers had been maltreated, and that they
were treated excellently. In contra
diction to that we have received re-
liable information that the officials of
the state police who are working in
the Budapest police presidum have not
changed their character! The major
ity of the arrested have been tortured,
beaten, trodden upon in the most re-
voting and inhuman fashion. The ar
rested engineer Josef Weiss was
beaten mercilessly. If the lawyer of
Josef Weiss would be allowed to enter
the prison and speak with his client,
he would see on his face the led spots
caused by the beating. He would
then see on the forehead of the sec
retary of the Vagi-group, Josef Nit
terer. a long swollen bruise. One can
,ot explain away with any paragraph
of the penal code why the neck Of
the arrested Bella Mailer is covered
with the traces of strangling. Also the
arrested josef Papa was very seri-
ously maltreated. These maltreat-
mentss we're led by the notorious de-
tective Nyiri who threw him to the
floor trod upon him, and, standing on
his stomach, turned himself round on
his heel. The arrested Nicolaus Petri
was boxed on his ears for six times.
The arrested George 10th is charged
with nothing but being the brother OF
the arrested socialist woman, Hamann
When he protested against this treat
ment, he was taken to special cell
and returned the next, morning to his
former cell in a terribly beaten state.
On his wrists and hands there were
traces of terrible blows.
"Stefan Frisch, the son of well-to
do factory owner, was terribly beaten,
altho there was not the least suspicion
against him. Paul vandor was beaten
on his face and body. His screams
we're heard by a number of other
prisoners. Ludwig Stemmel washed
off traces of blood in the prison toi-
let. In a similar way the prisoners,
Oeri, Goegoes, Zeinert, josef Winkler
I'll frnofnd The
arrested Lucacs was hanged up by
his feet and terribly beaten by the
detectives. A brother of the arrested
socialist woman, Hamann, who is
seriously Ill and suffers from infiam-
nation of the kidney, was taken to
the police station out of bed, brutally
treated, only because he refused to
give information about the role played
by his sister.
What British Mission Saw.
"And after all these doubtlessly
very insufficient reports. there is
finale. The prisoners were driven to-
gether in one room and were con-
fronted with society, led by the
e-police-president, Hetenyi. They
declared that this was the British
mission. The gentlemen entered the
room and before the open door stood
detectives and policemen, whose
fists, sticks and rubber clubs the
prisoners knew already. The vice
police.president pointed to the prison
ers with great move and said: None
of you has been maltreated, isn't it
so? None of you has been beaten,
isn't it so? If anything has happened
to anybody, he should say so now.
"None of the arrested moved. With
fixed glance they looked at the door
where the detectives and policemen
were standing The society looked
for a moment at the sad figures and
then left them with a kind goodbye.
To these witnesses the police refers
now and asks them to state that the
prisoners have not been maltreated."
Bourgeois Paper Confirms Story.
The bourgeois organ Vilag also
confirms that the prisoners are being
tortured. The minister of the interior
is suing the paper for libel.