MILITARY DEFAULTERS.
IN RAGS AND TATTERS. MISERABLE LIFE IN THE BUSH. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Invercargill, Last Night. Four military defaulters, almost in rags and tatters, were brought to the police station to-night, having been' arrested at Elfin Bay, Lake Wakatipu, on Monday. For months these men led the police a dance, having the run of thousands of miles of wild bush country between Lake Wakatipu and the West Coast. They have been living mostly on birds and fish, and for six months have had no-news of the outside world. The party originally numbered six, but the life proved too trying for two of them, and they returned to civilisation, being arrested. The other four stuck it out, but by degrees found the struggle too wearying, and, completely out of provisions, were driven near ,the haunts of men, and were discovered at 4 a.m. on Monday. They were not armed, and submitted without resistance. All belong to Christchurch, though one at the time of his escape was a civil servant at Vv'anganui. One escaped from Trentham camp. The men will be handed over to the military authorities to-morrow.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1918, Page 5
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187MILITARY DEFAULTERS. Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1918, Page 5
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