MASS DEPORTATION

Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1932, Page 5

MASS DEPORTATION

SPANISH: HORROR

WORSE THAN DEVIL’S ISLAND.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

LONDON, September 25

The “Daily Mail’s” correspondent at Hendaye, on the Spanish frontier, states: —rir' There is a - mass dopdrtatiO« ;i from Spain., eclipsing in Ko#ror‘ -the- worst exploits of the' 3*t is -the sequel tothe recent San J urgo'- iovolt. The fourth batch of --numbering 138 ‘‘Monarchists, ahddndnding

cousins of-ex-King Alfonso, also ' gran-

dees and "high officials who have‘Served the Monarchy, have now been-packed on board-the transport,' and thiA under conditions that aire infinitely- Worse thanthose'-o-f ariy old time Botany Bay convict-ship;! • The deportee* ; are en ' route’-to : Villa'

Cisneros, which is a Warren, sun-babeid 1 outpost of'North West AfHoai'- nvOompared wfttr Villa Cisneros, Devil’s lsland is.Kd©n. - ■\' “ t< ' The -flower of the Spanish aristocracy ere thus condemned toa- ; living , dentil in the ~-- u No Man’s- Land”’'of Rio Doom, whore thi Spahish '•garrison of Villa CSsherw' is' rtever ible-to maintain smote thah a smalh ihiKtarjir post, The aentries dare, hot venture beyond It* barbed wire " defences at : night time, fbr : -fear of *w»miad Arab trdxwmen.v

The (fueotioh isrHowriaanyof the deportees will arrive inv a state of health enabling tbeiil id .support the

irwf ill • conditions / f of i ith’eir imprisonment in that - desert Outpost ?•’ Or how many of' them will return alive? .