SCOTTISH SANCTUARY
NOT OPEN TO WAR CRIMINALS., i —■ A The suggestion that Axis war criminals might seek sanctuary in Southern Ireland, if they can get that length, was bound to crop up sooner, or later. But so far nobody has suggested that any of the guilty men will follow the trail of Hess and seek shelter in Bonnie Scotland. In bygone days Scotland had a sanctuary to which fugitives, from justice frequently fled. It was the little Hebridean island of Oronsay, which is connected to the neighbouring island of Colonsay by a sandy strand. A tall, slab-like monument erected in the middle of the strand, marked the sanctuary boundary, and its site is still visible today. The Jast person to seek shelter there was no desperate character; he was, in fact, merely a debtor seeking freedom from arrest. Since then nobody has tested the inviolability of this outpost as a sanctuary, and indeed there are Lnany Scots who, assert that life itself on remote Oronsay is a drastic form of punishment.—“ Manchester Guardian.”.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 November 1943, Page 4
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173SCOTTISH SANCTUARY Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 November 1943, Page 4
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