DESERTED CHILDREN
LEFT ALONE IN HOLLAND FATHER AN ENGLISHMAN LONDON, Oct. 30. When an English soldier named Osborne married a Dutch girl in Holland, and after becoming the father of two children basely deserted them little, did he think ho would create as 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, and they were left stranded. The Dutch authorities, rather than shoulder the responsibility, dumped them on a cargo boat and they were landed at Gravesend. They knew not a word of English, and aroused a feelling of pity until they disappeared behind the walls of a workhouse. During a storm they disappeared, and were found 7i miles 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 jin an orphanage and turn them out far better Englishmen than their father.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 266, 8 November 1929, Page 7
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166DESERTED CHILDREN Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 266, 8 November 1929, Page 7
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