A FRENCH KOEPENICK.
Dressed in sergeant's uniform,. .*; colonial soldier named BeuezefTTwent to a military- camp at Marseilles at 2 a.m., called out the. guard, ordered reveille to be sounded, and assembled 242 young: colonial' soldiers with' their luggage' to be entrained at once. 'All the luggage .was piled' in a "motor car he had brought with him ;ancl the'men were marched'off to,-the railway station', but oh. the. way the sergeant and the luggage car disappeared. 'Whe~ the detachment arrived at the station without its "leader the commissary, having no orders for a train, sent ah officer back to "camp with the men and opened an inquiry. The impostor and his accomplices were quickly discovered, and are now awaiting trial.
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Taihape Daily Times, 31 August 1918, Page 5
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119A FRENCH KOEPENICK. Taihape Daily Times, 31 August 1918, Page 5
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