DEGRADING TREATMENT
BRITISH SUBJECTS IN
UNITED STATES MAN’S FACE BASHED Reed. 1 p.m. LONDON, Sunday. The "Sunday Chronicle,’’ following lip assertions of allegedly degrading gaol treatment in the United States of British subjects contravening the migration laws, asserts that, so far as the migration restrictions affect British subjects crossing the Canadian border, the United States violates the Jay Treaty by giving free transborder passage to Britons and Americans.
Mr. Gerald Crichton, the actor-play-wright. who made the original disclosures, gives the experiences of Bernard De Vine, an Australian seaman, who was arrested by a migration official at San Pedro and charged with desertion. He was acquitted by a court-martial and handed over to the migration authorities at Los who detained him for two months. Awaiting deportation, he was placed in solitary confinement for a fortnight, because after finding maggoty meat in his mess-tin he threw the contents in the sheriff's face, and wrenched the arm of another sheriff for taunting the Britons, for which his face was bashed.
An unnamed Manchester man alleges hellish treatment at Los Angeles Gaol, where he was incarcerated on a false charge.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 853, 23 December 1929, Page 11
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186DEGRADING TREATMENT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 853, 23 December 1929, Page 11
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