ISLAND DRAMA.
SUFFERING AND DEATH SURVIVORS RETURN TO FRANCE London, Feb. 19. The “Daily Mail’s” Paris correspondent reports that a drama of suffering and death is revealed by the return to France of three survivors of a party of six men and a woman who left the lobster volcanic island of St. Paul, south of the Cape Town Fremantle trade route. A French company in 1928 organised the lobster tinning industry on the island and took out men from Brittany. After an earthquake and fire they decided to abandon tho enterprise. The Brottons were repatriated with the exception of Madame Brunon, her husband and five men volunteering to remain and guard the machinery. The party suffered terrible hardships owing to a relief ship being held up by storms. A baby was born to Madame Brunon and lived only a few days. Disease broke out and some of the men went mad. A negro, Franchose, dragged himself from a hut to an isolated rock to die and his flesh was eaten by birds. Brunon died in his wife’s arms, and another man found death. A fifth, Pierro Quillivic, dressed himself in a Bretton costume, put to sea in a canoe and ivas not seen again.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 59, 21 February 1931, Page 6
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204ISLAND DRAMA. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 59, 21 February 1931, Page 6
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