“LIKE WILD BEASTS.”
FRENCH PRISON SHIP
BOILING WATER DEFENCE
LONDON, March 31
Despite an election promise to 'abolish the notorious penal settlement at Devil’s Island, Ereach Guiana, says a Paris message, 684 convicts are shortly to be shipped there, caged like wild beasts aboard tho La Martinier, which is a model prison ship, with steel decks and walls.
This will be the first shipment since 1924. Many of the convicts h.ave been reprieved from the guillotine. They, will receive good rations, including meat and a bottle of wine everv day.
Every precaution has been taken against a possible mutiny. Armed guards will continuously parade the iron gratings above the cells, and the ship is fitted with piping, whereby the simple turning of a tap will open jets of boiling water and steam among the prisoners.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 108, 7 April 1926, Page 4
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