THE ALLEGED DESERTER
A PRISONER OF WAR THOROUCH INVESTIGATION TO BE MADE. The reported desertion to the enemy of a membor of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force is row officially stated not to have been a case of desertion at all. In fact the man in question, Private P. Nimot, of Carterton, is officially reported to be a prisoner of ivai;, along with five othor Now Zealanders, at Dulmp, Westphalia, in Germany. Circumstantial report have been circulated ire New Zealand to the effect that this man went over to tlw enemy,., and betrayed his comrades. That news is not official. Tho othor news that has come to j : tho Defence Minister, tbat Nimot is a prisoner'of war, is official, [n view of the circumstances the Minister of Defence- has cabled Homo, ordering a thorough investigation and a report. Until that report is »Tailable judgment may be suspended. It should ue understood that information concerning prisoners of war is collected by the agents of the Legations of neutral Powers, usually by the American Legations, and by tnem distributed to the belligerent Gcrernrnonts.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2865, 1 September 1916, Page 4
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181THE ALLEGED DESERTER Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2865, 1 September 1916, Page 4
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