FOUGHT FOR POLAND
CHARGE OF SHIP DESERTION FO R FELTED N ATI ONAL ITY (By Telegrapn.—Press Association) DUNEDIN, Monday Israel Bruin,- alias Brinn, who though born in Poland 41 years cigo was stated to have forfeited his nationality by deserting from the ■Polish Army after the last war, was charged in the Police Court with deserting from the ship Loch lion at Auckland on April 18. He was remanded for a week. Counsel said defendant had fought in the Polish Army against the Bolshevists and then deserted and gone to Antwerp, where lie had a wife and lour children. He joined the Loch Don there and was so impressed wilh New Zealand that he deserted, obtaining work here as a painter. He was now in partnership with a fellow workman and doing well. His position was that he ready had no nationality. lie was ol’ Jewish extraction, and the community hero thought well o X him.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20912, 18 September 1939, Page 9
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156FOUGHT FOR POLAND Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20912, 18 September 1939, Page 9
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