GAOL TREATMENT
OF BRITISH IMMIGRANTS
(By Telegraph—Press Association)
LONDON, December 23
The Sunday Chronicle following up the assertion of allegedly degrading gaol treatment in the United States of British subects contravening the migration laws, asserts as far as migration restrictions affect British subjects crossing the Canadian border of United States violates the Jay treaty by giving free trans-border passage to Britons and Americans.
Gerald •Crichton, the actor and playwright, who made original disclosures, gives the experiences of Bernard de Vine, a,n Australian seaman arrested hy a migration official at San Pedro, who charged him with desertion. He was acquitted hy a Court martial, handed over to the migration authorities at Los Angeles, who detained him for two months awaiting deportation. He was placed in solitary confinement for a fortnight because after finding nmggotty meat in the mess tin, he threw the contents in the sheriff’s face and wrenched the arm of another sheriff for taunting Britons, for which his face was hashed.
An unnamed Manchosterite alleges hellist treatment at Los Angeles gaol where he was incarcerated on a false charge.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1929, Page 3
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180GAOL TREATMENT Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1929, Page 3
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