Show Prison Ship Sets Sail With W French Felons SAINT-MARTIN-DE-RE SAINT France Sept 7 The Thc The floating prison La MartIniere bearing gray-clad gray convicts in eight great steel cages sailed ailed sailed silently from a guarded dock today oday for the Guiana prisons The steamer La Martiniere will deposit its human cargo argo at St. St Laurent Laurent Lau- Lau rent du Maroni distributing station for lor or the various various' prison camps Banished from France it will vIll be years cars before any of these convicts will viII set foot loot once more on their heir homeland Each must serve serve a term at t hard labor abor and an equal number of years in exile confined to a p penal nal island S Those sentenced to more than eight ye years rs must stay for life lIfe un un unless less they escape to the Venezuelan mainland An average of oo convicts con con- convicts convicts' convicts a a year es escape ape but many die in the thc swampland d. d through which they take flight For two weeks now the they sit on wooden benches and sleep in canvas canvas canvas can can- vas hammocks with but a few moments moments moments mo mo- mo- mo ments each day on deck Then they reach their destinations where weeks mean little |