Paris, Sept, 12.
The escape of Dr. Bougrat (the Marseilles medical man who was Sentenced to penal servitude for life for the murder of a patient, whose ady was found in a cupboard in the doctor's house) from the penal settlements in French Guiana has once more drawn attention to tranportation, which France, alone among European nations, retains as part of her penal system, Its drawbacks are fully re-agnized in France, and a Minister of the Colonies, Daladier, a few yours ago went so far as to suspend {it and to order that criminals under Jong sentences should serve th time in French prisons, but unfor~ tunately this reform was found to bbe impracticable, All the colonists and contractors in French Guiana were up in army against the prospect of being deprived of convict Tabour, which, though poor enough in quality, is cheap and has destroyed competition by any other form labour. A commission was appointed in Paris to go into the whole question, ard this body made various recommendations designed to improve the lot of the convicts. Some of these suggestions were jopted but most of them were re~ fected as unworkable by the prison authorities, and in principle the system was left unchanged.
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