BRAZIL'S CONVICTS.
COBRAS ISLAND AFFAIR. GOVERNOR BEING PROSECUTED. United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. (Received May 30, 5.5 a.m.) RIO DE JANIERO, May 20. Marshal Fonseca, President of Brazil, in a message to tho Chamber of Deputies, admitted the deatli of eighteen of tin marines. The Commander of Cobras Island was being prosecuted. The message also stated that the authorities were justified in shooting several other deported men.
(It was reported early in January last that twenty-six of the naval mutineers who were undergoing imprisonment, died from sunstroke whilo repairing the defences of tho Island of Cobras, and that nineteen others succumbed to suffocation in the prison cells.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10252, 31 May 1911, Page 6
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108BRAZIL'S CONVICTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10252, 31 May 1911, Page 6
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