BID FOR FREEDOM
DEVIL’S ISLAND PARTY FALL AMONG SHARKS NINE REACH TRINIDAD Reed. 1.10 p.m. PARIS, Sunday. Eleven life sentence prisoners recently escaped from the French penal settlement at Devil’s Island, and managed to obtain a sailing-boat at the outset of their desperate bid for freedom. They sailed safely- for six days and then a storm capsized the boat. Two men were immediately dragged down and killed by sharks. The others righted the boat and scrambled back just in time. They- reached Trinidad, but will not be safe unless the French authorities refrain from extradition proceedings for three years.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1053, 18 August 1930, Page 9
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99BID FOR FREEDOM Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1053, 18 August 1930, Page 9
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