MILITARY ESCAPEES
FIVE MEN RE-CAPTURED. Bv Telegrnnh—Press Association WELLINGTON, Friday. All five of the men who escaped from detention at Featherston camp have been re-eaptured and dealt with by the military authorities. The first two. whose recapture is reported, were not at large for lony. but the other thr>>e stated they went as far as the eoast. In their search for shelter they met with rebuffs at all the farm houses and st.-tfions at which they applied for help, and were exhausted. After several nights in tlie onen nir they marie their way hack to Martinborough by road. Here they were apprehend -d l>y the <amp no!ice. A tribute is paid to the manner in which thev were returned to camo by ;l:e piump. action of the military police.
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13814, 19 July 1918, Page 5
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