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Show DESERTER WILL DO TIME AFTER WAR Special Cable to The Tribune. PARIS, Oct. 0. Two years' hard labor la-bor Is not a severe sentence for desertion deser-tion in war time, but In the case ot the French soldier, Lepetltcorps, the circumstances circum-stances are unusual. Four times he had deserted and he 1 was noted as "a deplorable soldier." But I then each time ho. ran away It was from the barracks. He could ' not breathe within walls while flghtins was golnK on. Under fire he was a perfect devil. Wounded at Morhange, he refused to go to the ambulance. Again he was wounded, first In the head, then In the leg At Argonne he had both feet frostbitten frost-bitten He volunteered for overy desperate des-perate deed and was mentioned in orders or-ders for distinguished conduct. But as soon as he was "caged" he became im- j possible. . . , His iudges havo ordered him to the front, allowing him to do his sentence I after the war. |