HID FOR TWELVE YEARS
4. TWO FRENCH DESERTERS. AY C.a «1,8 PRESS ASSOCIATION -COPYRIGHT Received 9.40 a.m. to-day. PARIS, March 16. A court-martial, at Lyons acquitted two Frenchmen who deserted at the outbreak of war and .lived solitarily in ihe Alps for 12 years before gendarmes discovered them. They pleaded that they deserted because' they belonged to a fanatical sect which forbade the shedding of blood. The-v even abstained from killing game' for food while hiding.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 17 March 1927, Page 5
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76HID FOR TWELVE YEARS Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 17 March 1927, Page 5
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