DEVIL'S ISLAND.
ELEVEN PRISONERS ESCAPE. TWO DEVOURED BY SHARKS. PARIS. August 17. Eleven men who had been serving life sentences at the French penal settlement on Devil's Island recently escaped. They managed to obtain a- sailing boat at the. outset of their desperate bid for freedom and in this they sailed safely for six days. Then the craft was capsized in a storm. Two of the men were immediately dragged down and devoured by sharks. The others righted the boat and scrambled back into it. The nine survivors liaVo just' reached Trinidad. They will not be safe unless the French authorities refrain from taking extradition proceedings within three months.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20646, 19 August 1930, Page 11
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