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ANOTHER WAR CASE. COURT MARTIAL ORDERED. ONLY SIX WEEKS IN LINE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received August 10, 11.45 a.m. PARIS, Aug. 9. The ease of the deserter Louis Delcourt, who gave himself up as a deserter and found he had been pardoned in the amnesty years ago, encouraged Denis Caron, of Amiens, who deserted in 1914 after six weeks in the line, to surrender after living unmolested with his uncle. The authorities startled Caron with the information that the amnesty was applicable only to deserters who had served three months or had been wounded. Caron therefore laces a court martial.
“Yon were pardoned years ago when the amnesty was proclaimed,” was the police reply to Louis Delcourt, of Beaumont, Siene et Oise, who had hidden himself 21 years ago in ihe house of his mother, who had kept his presence secret. Delcourt fought in the trenches for two years during the war time, returning several tiriies after being wounded and oventual.y overstaying his leave. Ho feared to surrender himself. His mother having recently diod, ho gave himself up as a deserter.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 10 August 1937, Page 7
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185FRENCH DESERTER Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 10 August 1937, Page 7
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