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ESCAPEES FROM DEVIL ISLAND
(United Press Association —By ElectricTelegraph—Copyright).
(Received this dav at 9. a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 28. A Caracas message says Doctor Boaigrat, (cabled on 6th November), who escaped from Devil Island, has been rearrested. Interviewed, he stated he escaped from the hospital with two companions and fled to the jungle joining five others who had escaped five days earlier. They embarked in a small boat on a voyage of six days during which there were several storms. They were thrown on the coast of British < Guiana where three days wore spent repairing the boat. Two days more sailing brought them to Orinoco De - I 'fa. Then the voyage became a perpetual fight against heavy seas in a leaky -boat, until they arrived miraculously at the coast of Gulf of Paria, Venezuela, between Soro and Ira pa, nearly dead, having been without food for four days, and without w'atei foi /|j| thirty hours.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1928, Page 5
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