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CHILEAN DESERTERS FOUND. ARRESTED IN THE RANGES. TO BE SENT TO PANAMA. IBy Teiegiaijh.—l'iusts AdbocJ-Uion; 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 Genera Baquedano on Tuesday, evening. Hardly was the corvette out of Lhu harbour when the sailors were seen in the Waitakere Ranges and they were arrested yesterday afternoon by the Henderson Police on a vagrancy charge. The Magistrate, Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., li'enianded them for a week pending a reply from the ConsulGeneral in Sydney to a cable from the Auckland Consul asking for instructions. The men had only ono shilling; between them. The Consul said that 300 men were aboard and it was cheaper to send the deserters to Panama by steamer than to bring the corvette back to Auckland.
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Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 18277, 28 August 1931, Page 3
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