DESERTERS.
(Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, This day
The police arrested in the backblocks yesterday two deserters, one from Timaru and one from Gisborne, and sent them to the group officer at Napier.
Among other statements the men made was one that if the British Government gave Home Rule to Ireland it would not be able to deal with all the recruits they would get.
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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7922, 23 August 1917, Page 3
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