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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. THE IRISH DEPORTEES. REFUSED MEDICAL TREATMENT. LONDON, May 18. Purcell said he himself suffered from lumbago and was refused an extra blanket or medical treatment. Another deportee contracted German measles but was forced to mix with the other internees. The armed guards were hostile and impertinent. and threatened them with revolvers on the slightest provocation.
(Received this dav at 8 a.in.) LONDON, May 17
There were wild scenes of enthusiasm at Euston Station upon the arrival of 10 deportees, including women. A crowd of Irish sympathisers waved the Republican flag, forced the platform harriers and mounted the train footboards as it steamed in. Councillor Purcell, one ol the deportees, slated lie understood only ten deportees would he proceeded against. Deportees owing to their had treatment at Mountjoy Prison had tried to telegraph protests to Mr Bridgemnn, hut the wording had been interfered with: also their letters and food parcels. Ho lino proof that some of the deportees had been taken to the basement and beaten with rifle butts. One was put against a wall ..and kept hanging by his hands, seven feet from the ground for two hours and then taken down and kept handcuffed for three days.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1923, Page 3
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