FRENCH DESERTER
FACING A COURT-MARTIAL Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, August 9. (Received August 10, at noon.) Tho case of tho deserter Dclcourt encouraged Denis Caron, of Amiens, who deserted in 1914 after six weeks in tho line, to surrender after living unmolested with his uncle. The authorities startled Caron with-the information that tho amnesty was applicable only to deserters who had served throe months or had been wounded. Caron, therefore, faces a court-martial. [“You were pardoned years ago when an amnesty was proclaimed,” was the police reply to Louis Dclcourt, of Beaumont, Seine-et-Oise, who had hidden himself for 21 years in the house of his mother, who kept his presence a secret. Dclcourt fought in the trenches for two years during tho war time, returning several times after being wounded, eventually overstaying his leave and fearing to surrender himself. His mother having recently died, ho gave himself up as a deserter.]
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Evening Star, Issue 22723, 10 August 1937, Page 9
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