FRENCH CONVICTS’ PECULIAR PROTEST
SENTENCED TO GUIANA. HUNGER STRIKE BECAUSE OP" TRANSPORT DELAY. Australian Press Association. Received Thursday, 7 p.m. PARIS, Juao 26. _ Several hundred convicts in a penitentiary of Lledere, near La Rochelle, mutinied for the remarkable reason that they were all long sentence men, involving them being sent to the dreaded penal settlement in French Guiana. They objected to remaining at Lledere and hunger struck as a protest against the long delay in shipping them to Guiana, arguing that they had been sentenced to go there and not to stay in an ordinary prison.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6947, 28 June 1929, Page 7
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