DASH FOR FREEDOM.
Adventures of Devil's Island
Escapees.
TWO DEVOURED BY SHARKS.
PARIS, August IS
Eleven men who had been serving life sentences at the French penal settlement on Devil's Island recently escaped. They managed to obtain a sailing boat at the outset of their desperate bid for freedom and in this they sailed safely for six days.
Then the craft was capsized in a storm. Two of the nien were immediately dragged down and devoured by sharks. The others righted the boat and scrambled back into it.
The nine survivors have just reached Trinidad. They will not be safe unless the French authorities refrain from taking extradition proceedings within three months.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 195, 19 August 1930, Page 7
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112DASH FOR FREEDOM. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 195, 19 August 1930, Page 7
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