A DESERTER'S ADVENTURES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14978, 21 May 1914, Page 8

A DESERTER'S ADVENTURES.

ACQUITTAL AFTER; CONVICTION. - . (TSOM Ot?* OWJ* COEBESPO?fDKKt.) ~ ': '■'. '_.' LONDON/ April -•jjj There comes from Paris tho Btory of '.>: ; | a deserter, of an exceptional type. Jean j;| Corinthious, Greek by birth, but French. by adoption, after serving two yeans ia | the Greek Army/. enlisted in : i the | Foreign Legion in 1905. .Four yeai* * later he became a naturalised French _ citizen, and took service in the colonial " infantry. At that time ho had ; trwelve- - campaigns to: hie crtdit; and name was written ; :tH©'words >» courageous .under-'fire." ■ • - - • , r At the. outbreak of the Balkan war, Corinthiousapplied for leave of absence. „ < This request was refused, co he deserted and went to Greece. Hβ . served throughout, and'received the rank of corporal as a reward for conq>icuou» bravery on the field of battle; At the ' capture of Metroff a bullet pierced r both his Greek and his French military "Jivrete." which ho always cerried"with v him. hostilities were:at an end, he pave" himself up to General Eydoux, head of the French Military 3lission in Greece, who sent him back-te Franco, where he had been condemned to fourteen months' imprisonment for desertion. Yesterday Jean . Corinthiou"! Apr peared before the court martial at Parts, and was unanimously acquitted. 'The only penalty that I should like to im- v pose upon the acctised ; " eaid the Government Prosecutor, "ia that he should , be condemned to serve France, his 5. country of adoption, with same courage and devotion with which he "4 has served hie native Greece." '|