2 Britons Freed in Chile Report Brutal Conditions

2 Britons Freed in Chile Report Brutal Conditions By MARUINE HOWE Special to The New York Times SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept 19— Gossens, according to United Reports are spreading here of States Embassy sources. The the arrest, ill treatment or dis- identification of the prisoners appearance of foreigners, main- was not available. ly those who came here as This afternoon, Marlise Si- political exiles from other Latin- moms, correspondent for The American countries. Some re- Washington Post, was detained ports have been confirmed, by two plainclothes men in her others not. hotel, according to a witness. Two British citizens said they Miss Simons was one of the had been held for two days in few foreign correspondents the national stadium along with here during the coup. It was thousands of other foreigners learned that Miss Simons had and Chileans and reported what been taken to the fifth floor one termed "systematic brutal- of the Ministry of Defense "for ity." questioning of her copy." A couple from the United She was released tonight af- States, Mr. and Mrs. Adam ter four hours of questioning. Schesch have been seen in a This morning a spokesman cell in the stadium and have for the military junta promised according to Richard Harbor- to give newsmen all that they Might, a British journalist and needed "to report the truth•" lecturer. Mr. Schesch was re- The spokesman charged to- ported to b ea researcher from day that there were 14,000 the University of Wisconsin. armed foreigners living in the A United States Embassy country and that many were spokesman confirmed that Mr. training leftists. and Mrs. Schesch were being Helicopters have been drop- held in the Stadium on charges ping leaflets warning the popu- of possessing leftist propagan- lation that "foreigners have da and "other material" z come into the country to kill Chileans" and called on the Priests Are Detained people to denounce all for- Six other Americans, includ- eigners engaged in "subversive ing two Maryknoll priests, have activities." been detained in the arrests There is no figure for the that followed the overthrow of number of foreigners who have the Government of the Social- been arrested on suspicion of ist President, Salvador Allende subversive activities. The United States Consul, Fred Purdy, has tried four; Hungarian Official Dies times to see Mr. and Mrs. BUD_APEST, Hungary, Sept. Schesch in the stadium. 19 (UPI) — Deputy Premier The German and Swedish Em- Peter Valyi died yesterday of in- bassies have also been refused juries suffered when he fell authorization to see their na- into a cauldron of molten metal tionals being held in the sta- at the Lenin metalworks in dium. Accounts on the number Miskolc, northern Hungary, On of prisoners in the stadium vary Saturday, the Hungarian press from 3,500 to 15,000. agency said. He was 54 years -An account of conditions in old. Witnesses said a crane ran the stadium was given by two out of control and pushed Mr. Britons, Mr. Barbor-Might and Valyi into the pit. Adrian Jansen, who is doing THE NEW YORK TIMES, T.HURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1973 • United Press International Members of Chile's four-man military junta attending Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte of the Army; Adm. Jose mass in Santiago yesterday to mark Independence Day. Toribio Merino of Navy, and Gen. Cesar Mendoza of na- From left, Gen. Gustavo Leif.,h Guzman of the Air Force; tional police. Ceremony was held at Sanitago Cathedral. research at the University of when he refused to sweep the in the stadium "which could Chile's development and that Chile. They told a group of cell, saying he was a British only have come from inside." the Government's "coercive ac- correspondents in a hotel here subject, according to Mr. Jan- He described one Latin-Ameri- tion was directed against those that they had been arrested last sen. can doctor who had received foreigners who intervened in Thursday as suspectS and "We ,'saw systematic brutal- five or six bruises on the back politics and those extremists marched at gunpoint to a po- ity," Mr. Barbor - Might de- and stomach. who entered the country in re- lice station, then taken by bus clared. "We saw prisoners, The Britons said the prison- cent years."• to the stadium. mostly Latins, kneeling on the ers had asked them to appeal Under President Allende, "There were Bolivians, ground with their hands up in for help from Amnesty Inter- Chile had become a haven for Haitians, Nicaraguans, Brazil- the air, being kicked and beat- national, a private London- leftists from many Latin coun- ians, Uruguayans, Paraguayans, en on the calves. Another based organization that con- tries. There is deep concern Guatamalans and Paraguayans group came into our cell and cerns itself with political pris- here among the embassies about in our cell and they were ter- appeared to have been badly oners . their fate under the new mili- rified," Mr. Jansen said. beaten up." The junta issued a statement tary Government. "Adrian and I weren't ill- Mr. Jansen said he had yesterday declaring that many treated personally but many heard firing whie they were foreigners had contributed_to others were," Mr. Barbor-Might said. Another Britan with them, a businessman, was rammed in the stomach with a gun butt .

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