ANTI-MILITARISTS “LAGGED.”

Grey River Argus, 16 May 1922, Page 5

ANTI-MILITARISTS “LAGGED.”

SUPPOSED '‘BOLSHEVIK PRISONERS. ESCAPED FROM CONVICT SHIP. [A, and N. Z. Cable Association! SYDNEY, May 14. Tlif Iwo l-'retu-li milil'iry prisoners en route to New Caledonia escaped from the steamer at Newcastle. RECAPTURED AT CRITICAL MOMENT. SYDNEY, May 15. The escape of two Frcncri. prisoners from the Elkanara, while coaling at Newcastle, is mysterious. They disappeared during the night, though apparently securely confined with a guard over thorn. The steamer departed for New Caledonia. Subsequently the two ■escapees wore captured aboard a ship which was scheduled to leave Newcastle for Durban to-day. PRISONERS BOTH GOOD MEN.

ONE A TIP TOP BOXER. (Received May 15, 5.30 p.m.) SYDNEY. May 15. The two French prisoners who escaped from thf Elkantara, were tried at the Xewacstie Court for vagrancy, and were remanded till the 22nd. I Both men had been banished for life I by the French Government. One, Tulop, was an airman in the same force as Georges Carpentier, the boxer. lie also was a boxer at Paris, having beaten Criqui, the famous French boxer, who recently visited Australia. Tulop had refused to fight against the Bolsheviks on the Servian front. He went to Spain, ami was charged with desertion on his returning to France, lie is an undergraduate, ami he has left his wife ami children in France. The other prisoner, named Sziber, is a Rumania. He was banished for life on a charge of obstructing Ihe French authorities when the Allied occupation of Hungary commenced. After the Armistice, Sziber declared that he was engaged in military police duties at a. railway station in Hungary, and he refused to hand over the railway facilities to the invading Allied Army. It is thought that France will now probably commence extradition proceedings. There are friends of the I wo prisoners in Newcastle and in Sydney. They are suggesting an appeal for funds to light Ihe ease.