A NAVAL DESERTER.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1391, 18 March 1912, Page 4

A NAVAL DESERTER.

<> REPUTABLE CITIZEN'S HARDSHIPS. f]J;- TclfrrapU.- I'rcss .\."o<Uit!im : Auckland, March 10. After fix years el lihivty and reputable ciljr.oii-.il)]), Knit.-; hank ilov.'s whs this inorr.in;.; ordered by Mr. E. lord, .),J ; ., i i in> jilaof'il on Ijjanl the \vw*hii> l'iom-or at J.viirlion, rlifirg' of de-ertim; from tho vi r-.-c! at J.hincdin in J'uKi Having been ]Uci\ rroil him. Thy ta-e pvoenis a-pecls ''l\ J; ar(i-11i11, winYo were iullv ">>y tlic i'.'licc on the wras/on wiiMi (ieiomlnnt ra« brought before the » '<lllll ar.il renmndod during Hie prej>v:ii ! pk. Mr. Allan Monciv, who appeared Tor the Militant, ciiteriil a Mron;} nicUm' the action of ihe Adniiraiiy in i',io uialter. The ma" lnuL been drasjjod from Fran!;(■'jr. Jiuielion ami kept in t : aol ior tbrre or four days, and then ordered lo return to Ihe uT.rship. "It is a monstrous procoedins." s.ud eounsel, "and shatters one's idea? of patriotism. For the last five or fix years he has been leading a most iespectablo life, and if (lie authorities have any sense ot propriety and hiimanit v they ivill at once release him." Counsel acknowledged the thoujihl fulness of SnbInfpeetor Henilrey throughout the jiruHo.vi'p will be taken to I.yHdion under