A NEW ZEALAND ARMY DESERTER
QUESTION IN THE HOUSE. The desertion of Private Nimot from the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces to the enemy was referred to in a question addressed to the Defence Minister yesterday by Mr. Vigor Brown, M.P. The member for Napier suggested to Sir' James Allen that he should withdraw his former, statement that Nimot was "ail honourable prisoner of war," a statement which Sir James Allen did not make at an/ time.
Sir James Allen Teplied as follows:— Private Nimot was originally reported by cable to have deserted to the enemy. Shortly after he was officially reported by the American Embassy-in Berlin to be a prisoner of war. Latest advices are that, he is .still so held. A Court of Inquiry hold x in France in December of t last year found-that, in spite of th'e fact that'he was n. prisoner of war in Germany, it was considered that Nimot had deserted to the enemy.' No further action as regards gnzetting is at present considered necessary. Nimot will be duly tried by court-martial under the Army Act when recovered at the end of the war. i ; i
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3128, 5 July 1917, Page 4
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191A NEW ZEALAND ARMY DESERTER Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3128, 5 July 1917, Page 4
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