COLOURFUL STOWAWAYS
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Hunger Striking Artist and War Veteran
(By TelpfBih
AUCKLAND, Last Night. A Bussian Jew from Odessa who has been on a hunger strike for the last; eight days and an ex-artilleryman who: has fought against the Germans, Austrians and Bolsheviks and spent nearly two years as a prisoner of war in Eussia, Germany and Poland, are two unnsual passengers on the steamer Brandon which arrived from AntWerp to* day. Both are stowaways who came ont of their hiding place inside the bunkers four days after she left Belgium. The stowaways were put to work sopn after they were discovered and the exartilleryman, Jan Eomanofk, who is a seaman, was detailed to the stokehold Whare he Wprked for the r§st of the yoyage. The Eussian Jew, Mjchael Levinsky, who claims to be a painter, peeled potatoes in the galley at first but began a hunger strike^ it is believed, with the object of being taken ashore to hospital when the ship arrived, thus forcipg the authorities to permit him to land although hc ia a prohibited immigrant. Both men spent to-night locked in a . cabin in the crew's quafters.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 96, 10 May 1937, Page 11
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191COLOURFUL STOWAWAYS Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 96, 10 May 1937, Page 11
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