WORSE THAN DEVIL’S ISLAND

Evening Star, Issue 21218, 27 September 1932, Page 7

WORSE THAN DEVIL’S ISLAND

D£PORTED REVOLUTIONARIES SPANISH GOVERNMENT’S DECREE Frm Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 25. The ‘Daily Mail’s’ correspondent at Hendays, on the Spanish frontier, states that mass deportation, eclipsing in horror the worst exploits of the Bolshevists, is a sequel to the San Jurgo revolt. The fourth hatch of 138 Monarchists, including cousins of ex-King Alfonso, grandees, and high officials who served the monarchy, are now packed on board the transport Espana, under conditions infinitely worse than those on any old-time Botany Bay convict ship, en route to Villa Cisneros, a barren, sun-baked outpost of northwest Africa, compared with which Devil’s Island is an Eden. The flower of the Spanish aristocracy is thus condemned to a living death in the no man’s land of Rio De Oro, where the Spanish garrison in Cisneros is never able to maintain more than a small military' post. Sentries dare not venture beyond the barbed wire defences at night time for fear of fierce nomad Arab tribesmen. The question is how many of those who are being deported will arrive in a state of health that will enable them to endurq the awful conditions ot imprisonment in the desert outpost or how many will return alive.