THE FRENCH PENAL SYSTEM.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20168, 21 February 1931, Page 19

THE FRENCH PENAL SYSTEM.

td the editor or tSe press Sir,—l teaS with much interest and thankfulness yOtir article in to-day's PitESS on "France's Penal System.'' Tllhilkfttliiess, because it seems to me that the best, the only, hope for the healing of such a festering World sore as the penalcsettlement at French Giiiana is. the letting in of. light and air Upoh its horrors, and undoubtedly the best method of accomplishing this is by the newspapers of the civilised World lotting their readers know something of What these horrors Teally are* the yoUng American} Don Quixote (Halliburton), who, by almost incredible courage and address, gained admittance to the French prison on Devil's Island, ttttd got UWay aiiViJ to describe his experiences there in ''NeW Worlds to Conquer/' lias done a great work fOr llumfi,tlity, if oiily by ittaking every reader of his burning Words feel that whilst Our fellow-creatures are Buffering such torments as are described In hits bookj every man and -woman of tha CiVillsfed World should never ceasb protcstihg' against them yiitil tliey are abolished £or ever. ''Are we pledged to craven gileiict!, O, fl' n ß , it to the wind, p The parchment wall that bars us from the least af human kind; That rntikeel tla crltige ahd {smporise, and * dumbly stand at rest, / . While Pitt's buthlilg flood' tJt \Vords is reahot in the breant. But if before Ilia duty mat) With lisfclddi Spirit Mtands . Ere long the Great Avettger takes the work fl'onl dttt hia hands." —Yours, etc,, ■ . 'A*TN SAUNTERS. Papanui. February 20th, 1901.