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Nameless Graves For 419 Living Men
ON ISLAND HELL
HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-
STHREE convicts, banished by
their country, abandoned by all but their truest friends, sailed from lle de Re, near La Rochelle, on September 24 in a floating prison, the ship La Martiniere, bound for Devil's Island,
Two hundred and fifty-four of them are condemned to ten and fifteen years' hard labour, with the prospect of release if they can escape the fever and disease which give the island such a high mortality.
Nameless Graves,
The other 419 are forbidden over to return to France. They are condemned to death.
BIG
GAME HUNTERS
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson, famous big game hunters, packing their loud for a trek into the wilderneuzen of British North Borneo, from where they hope to bring back another thrilling jungle film.
New U-Boats Can Set Fire
Their only release is a nameless To Ships With Secret Weapon
grave-to add to the thousands of such graves; the graves that make Devil's Island so apt a.
name.
The convicts themselves called the
journey to French Guiana. "Lo Grand Voyage" because, like that of death, it is made without hope
of return.
And those few rolatives who went to the island fortress to see La Martiniere leave for Devil's Island wore heavy mourning as if the husbands, sons and bro-
ANXIETY AT THE BRITISH ADMIRALTY··
British naval authorities are interested in information which has reached them concerning the new submarines that Germany is building.
American
thers they wept for were nirendy Debutantes at
dead. They had their last fare- well.
For eight days they had been allowed an hour to visit and talk, and on the day before the de- parture fifteen minutes was allowed them to say goodbye.
Royal Courts
U.S. CONGRESS MAY FORBID FUTURE PRESENTATIONS
New York, Oct. 3.
They are boats of 300, 500 and 1750 tons displacement with an action radius up to 8,200 sea miles.
British submarines at present range from the "H" class of bo- tween, 400 and 500 tons to the XI., Britain's largest submarine, now in reserve, which has 2,800 tons displacement,
Now Weapon
The new German U-boats can
Long before the ship salled the cobble-stoned streets of the little port of St. Martin de Re, which cluster about the great fortress! prison of St. Martin, were echoing The effort begun in the United plunge to the exceptional depth of to the arrival of hundreds of holi-States Congress to forbid Ameri: 300 feet. Water pressure at this day-makers from various parts of can debutantes being presented depth is resisted by a specially- the island and from the mainland. at Royal Courts in London is built outer hull which is light in.
Motor-conches and ferry-boats receiving the full support of
ran special services Windows of United States Government of weight in relation to its strength. the shops and houses along the ficials.
Highly efficient rotating pumps
quay were filled with spectators.
Representative Cannon. of
Three steamboats waited along! Wisconsin, made the first move have increased rising speed by, flity side the quay to take the convicts to-end-the-custom-in-a-resolu- percent.. on board la Martinlere, where the tion introduced to the House of grent iron cages, with their cement Representatives which would} floors, had been made ready for han presentations and also pre-j
vent American diplomatic repre-
them.
at court func-
In the prison of St. Martin sentatives from wearing silk itself a picked prison guard knee breeches carrying both rifles and retions. volvers lined up the convicts and made them strip. Their mouths and hair were searched for banknotes, tobacco and other forbidden property.
Chained In Threes
"Doluged".
Diplomats gave their support
The modern U-boats are armed with a new weapon-an inflammable torpedo.
Incendiary material is added to the explosive charge in the proportion of 15 per cent. It is suggested that a single hit with such a missile would en- velope a ship in flames.
to the proposal on the grounds that the Embassy in London is and night at the
U-boat building is going on day
Marino-Werft, deluged every
year with re-Wilmshaven; the Kleier Arsonal; Each convict was then given aquests for presentations. Poli- Blohm and Voss, yards at Ham- new outfit with a blanket, and a tical influence, from that of the burg, and by other firms with bag_containing underwear, sabots President down to members of wartime experience of U-boat and a spoon. The dangerous con- Congress, is exerted by the technique. victs were chained in twos and leading families of America to threes by the wrists. The others win presentation for debutantes were allowed the liberty of their
hand and feet.
before the King and Queen,
but
and
As in
Keeping Sacrots
The Embassy is allowed to
the case of airplanes, Some of them had been in St. Martin nearly two years. Others
present about ten American parts are manufactured separately women at each of four courts, and assembled later. Only a few came from the prison at Rochefort and other great towns. Most of
the number of requests engineers and foremen know what averages between three is being made. them word young, the majority lind taken life, committed violent
four hundred every year.
Machinery is made at factories assaults, robbed with murder.
Diplomats are supporting the in Cologne and Dessau: torpedo Calixte Joulia had killed three proposal regarding silk knee-tubes are made at Esslingen, inspectors of police at Marseilles, breeches on the ground of the Mannesmann, and the torpedoes Pierre Menou had killed his expense involved. fiancée in Paris, Edmund Egasse i had killed the assistant director
are completed at the works of the Schwartzkopf firm in Berlin, with military and civil, counter-es-
of a
Paris hospital; Armand others who had not committed any plonage ogenta keeping guard to Cabelot had stabbed twelve times great crime, but were habitual prevent any leakage of informa- a child of thirteen. There were criminals.
tion.
SALESMAN SAM
HELP, MAC! GIT SOME- BODY TA CLIMB UP THIS POLE AU PRY ME LOOSE
PHOOEY, SAM! TH' POLE AIN'T STRONG ENOUGH TA
HOLD TWO PEOPLEI
He'll Hafta Hang Around
(WELL, GIT "TH' ‚FIRE DE- |I TRIED THAT! BUT WE
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USE ELECTRIC CHROMIC NEEDLES WITH YOUR PICK-UP.
OUR BRITISH crossworDS
ACROSS
I Was this old weapon short-
handed?
d. Disease. Dance.
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12 The bore in this river is always
much disturbed.
13 Vessel that might float in itacif
reversed.
Burlesque.
18
14.
17 Thean ordinary, men are hon. oured in an University town. Hun
cats can be made loyal, 19 With this weapon the second
part might give the first..
22 Cordial.
24 A cousin of the stork.
26 A painter who suggests writing
ax an ́alternative. 26 A kind of joint that is not
headless.
29 African capital,
31 The kind that curtailed becomes
-cash.
32 One can find a cosy place in this
bush.
DOWN
1 This kind of dispute used often
to come from a bow.
2 One of our helpers in the war. a Struggles.
This shows there is nothing be- tween us and civil disturbance.
5 The people in the yacht. The opposite of Z down,
7. An apparent claims to be ideal
Ja a fault. 10 A sign to know in part of
Britain...
WELL, THEN, HURRY UP AN' CALL THE MAYOR!
11 Is this game played by, sailors
In a storm? (three words).
15 Wine that la colloquially katlu-
factory in a Scottish river.
16 Famous Hall that gives, wï-.
necessary advice to the glutton. 20 This Welsh river sounds almost
Weish.
21 Close-packed.
2 Relative that appears to make
progress.
23 From this mountain plant a not
gain may be obtained.
7 Decoration for some warrior an-
cestor.
28 Quadruped known on. 'Change, 30 An esecutial in 29, across.
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