THEIR BIGGEST. JOB
EVANGELISING DEVIL’S ISLAND l The French Government, it Is an- - nounced, has given permission to the t Salvation Army to send officers to * work among the convicts on Devil's a Island, the penal settlement off
3 French Guiana. General Higgins told a “Daily Mail” = reporter that it is hoped to begin a | work there in about six months. "It 3 is not possible yet to say. what we shall do except that the main idea will be to alleviate suffering as_ much as possible,” he added. e “We shall send a number of officers s from France, and have every hope i- that the woyk wTll prove useful.” d This tropical and barren convict ise land has been described as a living g hell where men are turned into wild i- beasts. The sea is shark-infested, and T - many convicts have been eaten by g them in trying to escape to the maine land. i-; M. Peah, a Salvation Army officer, y j who went to study conditions at )- | Devil’s Island, has admitted that the •- task of trying to evangelise the cond viets will be the olggest job the Army r . has ever tackled.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 694, 20 June 1929, Page 13
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