DESERTED CHILDREN.
LEFT ALONE !N, HOLLAND. FATHER AN ENGLISHMAN. LONDON. Oct. SO. "When an English soldier named Osborno married a Dutch girl in Holland, and after becoming the father of two children basely deserted them, little did he think he would create an international problem that would have to be solved by the British authorities* Charrel, aged nine, and John Berne, aged 10, could only speak Dutch when their mother died, a.nd they were left stranded. ' i;: : Tho Dutch authorities, rather than shoulder tho responsibility, dumped them on a cargo boat and they were landed at Gravesend. They knew,not a word.of English, and. aroused a feeling of pity .until they disappeared behind the walls of a . workhouse. During a . storm they disappeared, and were found 7j mi.es away, rain-soaked and mud-covered. They are. back again in the workhouse prattling, a word or two of English; and it is intended to educate them in an orphanage .and turn them, out far better Englishmen than their father.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20405, 6 November 1929, Page 11
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165DESERTED CHILDREN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20405, 6 November 1929, Page 11
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