FRENCH CONVICTS
REFUSED TO TAKE SHIP FOR DEVIL’S ISLAND. MEN INJURED IN SAVAGE FIGHT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.30 p.m.) „ PARIS, November 20. A shipment of 738 convicts at the Island of St Martiniere, due to sail for Guiana' on November 21, when paraded refused to enter two tugs en route to the convict ship La Martiniere and began fighting among themselves. Two men’s eyes' were knocked out. Two others had ears bitten off. Sixteen others were injured. Reinforcements were despatched from La Rochelle.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1938, Page 6
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86FRENCH CONVICTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1938, Page 6
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