800 MILES' WALK.
Fired with adventurous enthusiasm two schoolboys from Roubaix, Northern France, Raimond Wargnicr and Leon Bpcquet, aged 12 and 14, left their homes on June 30 to walk to India, as they had not enough money to pay their fare. , ' . Nothing was heard. from them till school-fellows at Roubaix received picture postcards dated from Bischofshofen in Austria on July 19. A reward of £SO was then 'offered by their parents for news of the walkers. A Customs officer at Steinach, in the mountainous region around Bischfshofen, has just identified and detained them. Their boots are wearing put, but they do not seem tni have suffered any special privations, though (hey must have crossed fight frontiers without passports and have slept most of the time in the openair. They have covered about 800 miles in 40 days.
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Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16095, 19 September 1924, Page 6
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