DEVIL’S ISLAND
NO FURTHER DEPORTATION OF CONVICTS. THOSE WHO ARE THERE TO DIE OUT. 0 PARIS, June 29. Devil’s Island and all other penal establishments in French Guiana have been abolished by a decree enforcing the provisions of a Bill introduced into Parliament' in 1936, and which has actually, been observed ever since. Convicts thereafter sentenced to deportation have remained in prisons in France. Those now in Guiana will not be repatriated, but will be allowed to die out.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1938, Page 3
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79DEVIL’S ISLAND Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1938, Page 3
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