ESCAPE OF CONVICTS.
ASYLUM IN TRINIDAD.
QUESTION OF SURRENDER.
APPEAL TO PRIVY COUNCIL.
By Telegraph—Pres3 Association—Copyright. LONDON. July 10.
The Howard League for Penal Reform is financing an important appeal to the Privy Council, to decide whether convicts who have escaped from the French penal settlement at. Devil's Island to British territory should be allowed their liberty, or be sent back. The immediate question concerns a convict who reached Trinidad and was ordered by the Trinidad Supreme Court to be surrendered to the French authorities.
The case will test the whole question of the sanctuary of British soil, and-an interpretation of the Anglo-French Extradition Treaty. > A big legal struggle is anticipated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20923, 13 July 1931, Page 9
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