FEARFUL DEATH FOR FORTY CONVICTS
MUTINY SUPPRESSED WITH STEAM-JETS (Received December 8, 9.50 p.m.) ALGIERS. December 7. II is reported that 40 convicts were killed on the convict ship La Alartinierc, when jets of steam Irom the boilers were used to suppress a mutiny. The ship left Martin De Re on December 1 with 250 felons for Devil's Island. They included murderers and one man who had killed his mother. The vessel, after shipping 3!)4 additional convicts at Algiers, resumed its voyage.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21034, 9 December 1933, Page 15
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