Show BOUNDARY DISPUTE brazil and french guiana send out an armed con mission c correspondence of the associated press kingston jamaica feb 14 advises advices received bierc from cayenne french guiana say that the joint commission appointed to inquire into the boundary question between france and brazil lias just been heard from on the river the news was more sensational than satisfactory and for some reason lie colonial government was doing its utmost to suppress alie facts the correspondent eang that both commissions went out guarded by heavy escorts equally matched the frenchmen had the gunboat and fifty senegalese soldiers and the brazilians Brazi lians had the gunboat guarana and an equal number of troops A collision occurred between these two forces in the interior there waru no details and it was not publicly known whether there bad been any bloodshed the fact that the governor immediately bent reinforcements of two hundred troops to the front without waiting to communicate with paris waa thought to indicate that the matter was serious the french government haq issued an order that all liberated convicts now at largo in tho colony ahall bo concentrated cent rated in maroni this indiscriminate and unlocked for action tells most cruelly on many now respectable citizens in cayenne being legally unable to make any distinction beaw ean the reformed and the incorrigible cutthroat cut throat clement which is annually growing larger and becoming a menace to the colony all have been ruthlessly included in the damnation of maroni according to the guiana newspapers tho authorities tharo are on the outlook for those prospective immigrants over the border and this is perhaps the crudest aspect of the affair if some of the expatriated respectable citizens of cayenne desire to try their fortunka for tunca in the moro enlightened they will be promptly deported back to cayenne as rascal to be dealt with according to the french laws |