COLLAPSE OF GAOL WALL.
PRISONERS ESCAPE.
(Received Sept. 21, 12.6 p.m.)
BRISBANE, Sept. 20
Piles by the steamer Ta Yuan contain the news of a big gaol disturbance at Canton. The prison wall collapsed;* and 58 prisoners escaped. The troops recaptured 31 and two were found dead. A man recently died in that prisjn who had waited two years for trial for being supposed to hold revolutionary ideas.
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Northern Advocate, 21 September 1910, Page 5
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