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IN RAGS AND TATTERS

0 ——tFOUR MILITARY DEFAULTERS . BROUGHT IN FOUND BUSH LIFE STRENUOUS By Telegraph.—Press Association. !nvercargill, October 29. Four military defaulters, almost in rags and tatters, were brought to the police station to-night, having been arrested at Ellin Bay, Lake Wakatipu, on Monday. l''or months these men have led the police a dance, having the run of thousands of miles of wild bush countrj between Lake Wakatipu and the West Coast. They have been living largely on birds and fish, and for six months have had no news of the uitside world. The party originally numbered six, but life proved too trying lor two of them, and they returned to civilisation, being subsviuwitly arrestedThe other four stuck it out, but by .degrees found the struggle too wearying, and, completely out of provisions, tverc driven near the haunts of men, and were discovered at i a.m. on Monday.. They were not armed, and submitted without resistance. All belong to Christchurch, though ono At the lime of Ins escape was a Civil Servant at Wanganui. One escaped from Trentham Camp. The men will be liandtd over to tl'.t military authorities tomorrow.

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 30, 30 October 1918, Page 6

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IN RAGS AND TATTERS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 30, 30 October 1918, Page 6

IN RAGS AND TATTERS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 30, 30 October 1918, Page 6

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