CHILEAN DESERTERS
PROMPT CAPTURE EFFECTED REMANDED PENDING INQUIRIES. AUCKLAND, August 28. The confession that they deliberately deserted was made in the Police Court to-day by three young sailors who slipped ashore from the Chilean naval training ship General Baquedano on Tuesday evening. Hardly was the corvette out of harbour when the sailors were seen in the Waikatere Ranges and they ■were arrested yesterday afternoon by the Henderson police on a charge of vagrancy. The magistrate (Mr F. K. Hunt) remanded them for a week, pending a reply from the Consul-General at Sydney to a cablegram from the Auckland Consul asking for instructions. The men had only a shilling between them. The Consul said there were 300 men on board. It was cheaper to send the deserters to Panama by steamer than to bring the corvette back to Auckland.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4042, 1 September 1931, Page 26
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138CHILEAN DESERTERS Otago Witness, Issue 4042, 1 September 1931, Page 26
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