DESERTED THEIR SHIP.
CHILEANS REMANDED. '.r«KS.i ASfcOClATlCl'li 'l'EL^uEiil.i AUCKLAND, August 'Jd. The coixiessiou that they deliberately deserted made iu the Police Court to-day by three young sailors, who slipped ashore from the Chilean naval training ship, Oeneral Baquedauo, on Tuesday evening. Hardly -was the coryetta pufc or the
harbour when the sailors were seen <m the Waitakere Ranges, and they, wure arrested yesterday afternoon by the Henderson police, on a . vagrancy charge. ;; The Magistrate (Mr Hunt) reruandod them for a week, pending a reply from tho Consul-General, iu Sydney to .ft cablegram from the Auckland "Consul, asking for instructions. The men bad only a stilling between them. The Consul said that there were 300 men aboard and if would be cheaper to send the deserters to Panama by a steamer . than to bring'the , corvette back to Auckland.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20328, 29 August 1931, Page 29
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