MUTINY OF CONVICTS
DEMAND FOR TRANSPORTATION
Australian Press Association.
PABIS, 26th June. Several hundred convicts !in tire Penitentiary of Be de Re, near' La Bochelle, mutinied for the remarkable reason that they were all long-sentence men,- and should have been sent to the dreaded penal settlement in- French Guiana. They objected to remaining at'Be de Re, and hunger struck as a protest' against the long delay in shipping them to Guiana, arguing that they were sentenced to go there and not to stay in an ordinary prison.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 149, 28 June 1929, Page 9
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87MUTINY OF CONVICTS Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 149, 28 June 1929, Page 9
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