CLENCHED-FIST SALUTE.
SYDNEY, Jan. 20. Chanting farewell songs in their native langiiage, the passengers and crew of the Vugoslavia liner Partizanka lined the rails as the ship sailed for the 1'ugoslavia port of Spiit. The vessei carried 246 Yugoslavs formerly resident in Australia and will embark 500 more at Fremantle. Denionstrations of enthusiasm were eonflned to snfall -groups of Comniunists giving the clenched-list s'alute and shouting "Tito, Zivio, Tito!" in the manner familiar to New Zealanders who were in Trieste in 1945.
More than 50 of the passengers -were young men unable to pay their fares, who have an agreement with the Tito Government to work on the land or on ihe roads as payment. One of them said: "I -was born in Brisbane and my grandfather is an Australian. My family thinks I ara mad to return ,to our homeland, but 1 have a cousin who fought with Marshal Tito's partisans, who tells me it, is the linest country -in the world for ^young men. I ara a Oommuftist '.And ; I • shall come •baelF heke bef orb ddlig, wheh Australia is Communist. " Already 300 more Australian Yugoslavs have booked for the next voyuge of the Partizanka.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 January 1948, Page 5
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