"A Ruthene who protested against the ill-treatment of women, who were forced to do the lowest work, was bayonetted. He was lying for five days between two barracks more dead than alive. His face and body were all green and covered with lice and his hands were bound. Then the Austrian officers and soldiers ill-treated him till he died." In consequence of the general political amnesty, over 100,000 political prisoners in Austria were released. Thousands of them emerged from prison or internment camps reduced to mere skeletons by the systematic lack of food. According to reports published in the Austrian press, one of the Ukrainian prisoners, named Karpinka, was left in solitary confinement without any fire in winter, so that his feet were frost-bitten and had to be amputated. A Czech named Jary, who was condemned to twelve years' hard labour, came out with consumption contracted through the rigour of his imprisonment. Many others were reduced to such weakness through starvation that they had to be carried out of the prison. (c) _Persecution of the Press_ Among the Czech journals suppressed in Bohemia at the beginning of the war, the following deserve to be especially mentioned: _Ceske Slovo_, organ of the National Socialist Party; the editors have been imprisoned. _Cas_ ("Times"), organ of Professor Masaryk (Realist Party); the editors Dusek and Hajek were imprisoned. _Samostatnost_, organ of the State Right (Radical) Party; the editors were imprisoned or sent to the front. The _Narodni Listy_ (Kramar's organ) was twice suspended, and in May, 1918, suppressed altogether because it "fostered sympathies for the Entente." The _Lidove Noviny_, organ of Dr. Stransky (Moravian People's Party), was also several times suspended during the war. All Socialist journals were suppressed except _Pravo Lidu_ and _Rovnost_. According to the _Wiener Zeitung_, seventy-eight Czech journals were suspended during the months of April, May and June, 1916, alone. All Slovak newspapers were also suppressed. As regards censorship, we need only mention that even speeches delivered in the Austrian Parliament were censored in the press. The sense of the speeches delivered by Allied statesmen was invariably distorted and declarations in favour of Czecho-Slovak independence were suppressed. Foreign newspapers were not allowed to be quoted; and the journals were forced to publish unsigned articles supplied to them by the police.... The Union of Czech Journalists declared on April 25, 1917 "We protest against the practice prevailing in Prague as against means quite contradictory to the moral principles of modern journalism, as in Prague the newspapers are forced to publish articles supplied by the Official Press Bureau, as though written by the editor, without being allowed to mark them as inspired. Thus the journals are not in reality edited by the editors themselves, but by the Press institution of the state."