Clenched Fists And Tears Mark Slav Exit
W ■ ■ AUCKLAND, Feb. 15. Slav songs centuries old rang out over tUo Avbarves on Saturday after110911 as the. Yugoslav Cxovernment steamer Radnik, with more than 100 New Zealand Yugoslays returning to their homeland, .on 'board, slowly pulled out from ilobsoii wharf, brehking the streainers which linked the passengers with about 2000 of their eompatriots wlio had eome to see them off. The spirit in which the emigrants left was as varied. as their ages. Some of the younger members, bold and confident gave the Communist sign 'of the clenched flst as they mouuted the gangway and waved goodbye. Oider people, obvioualy breakjng stro-ng ties with the Doiuinioii To spend their last days in the land of their birth, made no seeret of their tears. The Yugoslavs returning inclnded some who. had spent nearly a quarter of a century in the Dominion and some of the younger members will be seeing their liome eougfry for the ffrst time. The Raduik will next eall at Sydney and other Austraiiatt ports to piek up about 400 more returning, Yugoslavs.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 February 1948, Page 5
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