REMARKABLE MUTINY
PRISONERS WANTED TO GO TO DEVIL’S ISLAND DREAD PENAL SETTLEMENT (Australian and N.Z. Press PARIS, Thursday. Several hundred prisoners in the penitentiary at the island of Re. near La Rochelle, mutinied for a remarkable reason. They are all long-sen-tence men, their imprisonment involving being sent to the generally dreaded penal settlement in French Guiana, j The men objected to remaining at Re and started a hunger strike as a protest against the long delay in sending them to Guiana. They argued that they had been sentenced to go there and not to stay in an ordinary pTison.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 701, 28 June 1929, Page 9
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99REMARKABLE MUTINY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 701, 28 June 1929, Page 9
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