The young naval offer was senjtencea io life banishment and sailed for Guyana on July 17, 1908. Until 1923, or for fifteen years, "he ved Jaione on a rock surrounded by shark infested waters. The only men he saw were the guards who visited him twice a week. Dreyfus himself was the only other man to have suffered such a fate.
The government relented in 1923, Jand Ullmo. was allowed to go on the mainland, where he was. employed by. a local industrialist. Guyana pri Jsoners are often authorized to work for planters or miners, earning thus pittance which makes life for them more tolerable, "AL the tim though he didn't know It, seve persons. were working in France for his pardon. standing among. the fmoiselle Madeleine nurse, with who a voluminous correspondence,
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