AFTER TWELVE YEARS.
DESERTERS DISCOVERED
TRIAL BY COURT-MARTIAL
ACQUITTAL OF ACCUSED
Received March 17, 8.55 a.m
PARIS, March 16
A court-martial at Lyons acquitted two Frenchmen who deserted at the outbreak of war and lived in solitude in the alps for 12 years before gendarmes discovered them.
They pleaded that they had deserted because they belonged to a fanatical sect which forbade the shedding of blood. They even abstained from killing game for food while hiding.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 93, 17 March 1927, Page 7
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