ARMY DESERTERS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2225, 11 August 1914, Page 6

ARMY DESERTERS

' KING'S PARDON IF THEY SUEj JRENDERFOH'SERVICE, . - . A Dominion representative was ■in form - - ed at .the Defence headquarters yesterday D that an Army order had been issued on •. Friday offering;pardons to deserters. The &• order riinsV "His Majesty tho King 'fcas 5 : been graoiously. pleased to sanction. par- > dons being granted to soldiers who were s in a-state of desertion from ,the regular forces on August 5, 1314.. They must sur- > render thems?lves in the United Kingdom on or before September 4, 1014, or at any. " station abroad whero there are regular forces on or before October 4, 1914. They ■ will forfeit all service prior to tho dato 11 of surrender, but .such service may subse--1 fluently be restored nndcr the conditions kid down in the King's regulations. On 1 restoration of emico forfeited under Section 79. of the Array Act, deserters who . enlist between August 5, 1914, and October 4._ 1014, both dates inclusive, in any colonial corps which may have been, or"which " ha 3 beei. plaoed (it the disposal of the Imperial Government' for the-war will bo v granted a free pardon a( tho expiration of their service in such corps, owl will rot J)6 claimed for further service in the regnlnr_ forces of the United Kingdom. " They will, howere;*, forfeit all service renl 'dered in the regular forces of the United ' Kingdom 'prior to the dato of such enlin- * mont. Th«_ provisions of this order will not be applied to. men who have fraudu- ; lontly or improperly enlisted."