SMALL COMPENSATION
U YEARS ON DEVIL’S ISLE
Five thousand francs —the equi va ' lent of £40 —is all that the Court u* Appeal has awarded by way of ages to a man who was wrongly s tenced to deportation for life in H and who has spent 11 years on Dev Island. in His name is Bellon. He was Switzerland at the beginning ot war, and made the of an American who was in the t espionage service, and to whom he i a sum of money. n This money not being repaid. ***£* lodged a complaint against the sp.* The latter, by way of revenge, inform-, the French authorities that Bellon n denounced him as a French spy- R » On returning to France in l 91 ~jo r lon was sentenced by court-martial/* having given away a French t I genc.e agent to a foreign Governme ard was sent to Devil's Island. T ~ricnds In Franc? too’- v-> his 1 Biia St :~~t t’-.p Court Y’-AUV j annulled the judgment a.. T » j tuted this victim of a “judicial error*
part of the news on this page upeared in the Late Edition of jgg SUN yesterday.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19270830.2.155
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 136, 30 August 1927, Page 12
Word Count
196SMALL COMPENSATION Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 136, 30 August 1927, Page 12
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in