RETURN TO PENAL SETTLEMENT

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 91, 11 January 1935, Page 9

RETURN TO PENAL SETTLEMENT

Frenchman Goes Back After! Serving 26 Years DISGUSTED WITH MODERN WORLD By Telegraph.—Press Assu. —Copyright. (Received January 10, 11.45 p.m.) London, January 10. Tlie Paris correspondent of "Tlie Times” says that a naval lieutenant, Benjamin Ullino, pardoned after serving for treason 15 years’ solitary confinement on Devil's Island followed by 11 years at Cayenne, declares, after six months’ freedom, that lie is disgusted witli the modern world and is returning to Cayenne. Ullmo criticised the lower moral level, also “the immeasurable stupidity of humanity which thinks itself superior. I have seen no sign of real progress, but I have seen a terrible spiritual weakening and a lowering of conscience and intelligence.” The “News-Chronicle's’’ Paris correspondent says that Ullmo sailed from Le Havre watched by Madelaine Poirier, who, though a stranger to him, worked for his release and met him on his return. Ullmo returns as bookkeeper for a settler among paroled convicts. Ullmo in 1908 sold plans to a foreign Power in order to lavish gifts on his sweetheart.