FRENCH DESERTER.
SURRENDER AFTER MANY YEARS. HIDDEN BY HIS UNCLE. FACES A COURT-MARTIAL. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received Aug. 10, 1 p.m.) PARIS, Aug. 9. The case of the deserter Louis Delcourt 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 lor three months or had been wounded. Caron therefore faces a court-martial. “You were pardoned years ago when an amnesty was proclaimed," was the reply of the police to Louis Delcourt, of Beaumont, Seine et Oise, who had hidden himself for 21 years in t lie house of his mother, who kept his presence secret. Delcourt fought in the trenches for two years in the Great War. returning several times alter being wounded. Eventually he overstayed his leave and feared to surrender himself.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20268, 10 August 1937, Page 7
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158FRENCH DESERTER. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20268, 10 August 1937, Page 7
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