NO REAL PROGRESS
PARDONED CONVICT ON MODERN CONDITIONS
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright
LONDON, January 10.
‘The Times’s’ Paris correspondent says Naval-lieutenant Benjamin Ullmo has been pardoned after having served fifteen years for treason, solitary confinement on Devil’s Island being followed by eleven years at Cayenne. He declares" that, after six months of freedom. he is disgusted with the modern world and is returning to Cayenne. Ullmo criticised the lower moral level and “the immeasurable stupidity of humanity, which thinks itself superior. I have seen no sign of real progress, but I have seen a terrible spiritual weakening and lowering of conscience and intelligence.” The ‘ News-Chronicle’s ’ Paris correspondent says Ullmo sailed from Le Havre, watched by Madelaine Poirier, who, a stranger to him, worked for his release and met him on his return. Ullmo returns as bookkeeper for a settler among paroled convicts. Ullmo in 1908 sold plans of a foreign Power in order to lavish gifts on his sweetheart.
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Evening Star, Issue 21925, 11 January 1935, Page 10
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158NO REAL PROGRESS Evening Star, Issue 21925, 11 January 1935, Page 10
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