PRISON PREFERRED TO GERMANY
(Independent Cable Service) (Received March 31, 12.40 a.m.) PARIS, March 30. Sentenced in 1933 to nine years’ imprisonment on . Devil’s Island, Ernest de Michel, aged 41, escaped from the island in 1935 and managed to enter Germany, where he found work. Last Tuesday he gave himself up to the French Consul at Munich, saying that he wished to return to Devil’s Island because, he said, labour conditions in Germany were unbearable. De Michel will be repatriated to France and will return to Devil’s Island in the next boat.
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Southland Times, Issue 23781, 31 March 1939, Page 7
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