CHILEAN DESERTERS
Shilling- Between Them PROBLEM OF RETURN By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, August 28. A confession that they deliberately deserted was made in, the Police Court today by the three young sailors who slipped ashore from the Chilean naval training ship General Baquedano on Tuesday evening. > Hardly was the corvette out of the harbour than the sailors were seen in the Waitakere Ranges, and they were arrested yesterday afternoon by the Henderson police on a vagrancy charge. The magistrate, Mr. Hunt, remanded them for a week pending a reply from the Consul-General, Sydney, to a cablegram from the Auckland Consul asking for instructions. The men had only a shilling between them, the Consul said. It would be cheaper to send the deserters to Panama by steamer than bring the corvette back to Auckland.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 286, 29 August 1931, Page 6
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133CHILEAN DESERTERS Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 286, 29 August 1931, Page 6
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