DESERT ISLAND TRAGEDY.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20168, 21 February 1931, Page 15

DESERT ISLAND TRAGEDY.

DEATH AND SUFFERING ON ST. PAUL.

THREE SURVIVORS RETURN.

(UNITED PEEB3 ASSOCIATION—BI ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPTBIOHT.)

(Received February 20th, 7.20 p.m.) . LONDON, February 19. f The ''Daily Mail's" Paris correspondent reports a drama of suffering and death revealed bj the return to France of three survivors of a patty of six men and a woman who were left on the lonely volcanic? island of St. Paul, south of the Cape Town-Fremantle trade route. A French company in 1928 organised a lobster tinning industry on the. island and took men from Brittany. After an earthquake and firo these decided to abandon the enterprise and the Bretons were repatriated, excepting Madame. Brunon, her husband, and five men, who volunteered to "remain to guard the machinery. ■ . The partv suffered terrible hardships owing, to the relief ships being held up by storms. A baby was born to Mme. Brunon, but lived only a few days. Disease broke out and some of the men went mad. A negro, Francois, dragged himself from the hut to an isolated rock to die and his flesh was eaten by birds. Brunon died in his wife's arms and another man was found dead. A third Pierre Quillivic, dressed himself in a Breton costume, put to sea in a canoe, and was not seen again.