BOY PRISONERS MUTINY.
LOCK UP OFFICERS AND ESCAPE.. By Telegraph—Press Association-Oopyrleht Paris, June 11. Two hundred and fifty boys, aged between ten and nineteen years of age, mutinied at the penitentiary in tho ixnal colony at Belle-Ile-en-Mer, off the coast of Brittany. They complained that the food given them was uneatable. Having armed themselves with scythes and pitchforks, and locked up the officers, the boys scattered over the island. Gendarmes have been sent to arrest them. Belle-Ile-en-Mer is the largest island off the coast of Brittany. It is ten miles long and from two and a half to six miles in breadth, lying about ten miles off shore. The chief town is Le Palais, a placo of about 5000 inhabitants, who are mostly engaged in the sardine fishery. The town is surrounded by a double lino of fortifications. Madame Sarah Bernhardt has a villa in an ancient fort on the island. The coast is in many places picturesque and rugged, and abounds with many remarkable caves and grottoes. There is a reformatory on the island.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1152, 13 June 1911, Page 5
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175BOY PRISONERS MUTINY. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1152, 13 June 1911, Page 5
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