RECAPTURED.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4590, 16 May 1922, Page 2

RECAPTURED.

THE ESCAPED FRENCH PRISONERS. (By Electn'c Cable--Copyright., ,Aust. and N.'G. Cable Association Sydney, May 15. Two. French prisoners who .'escaped from the ship El Kantara were tried at the Newcastle Police Court for vagrancy and remanded till May 22. Both have been banished for life by the French Government. Ono, Tulop, was an airman in the same force as Carpentier. He was also a boxer at Paris, having beaten Criqui, who recontly visited Australia. Ho refused to fight against the Bolsheviks on the Serbian front, went to Spain, and was charged with desertion on returning to France. Pie is an undergraduate, and has left his wife and children in France. The other prisoner, Sziber, is a Rumanian. He was banished on a charge of obstructing the French authorities when the occupation of Hungary commenced after the Armistice was declared. Hewas engaged in military police duties at a railway station in Hungary and refused to 'hand over railway facilities to the invading army. It is thought that France will probably commence extradition proceedings, and friends of the prisoners in Newcastle and Sydney are suggesting an appeal for funds to fight the case.