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Auckland Star, Issue 123, 24 May 1919, Page 5

Two men who were recently arrested , for desertion from a ship at Port I Chalmers, and who were said to be , • aliens, approached the secretary of the ■ Dunedin Returned Soldiers' Association . j with a complaint. Thoy informed him I ! that they were, respectively, an American and a Canadian, and that they had , , both served in their national armies in J France. The substance of their grievance i was, however, that a Wellington weekly newspaper, in n-porting tlu-ir case, had stated that "they seemed more equareheaded than ordinary Yanks," and they deeply resented the suggestion that they were of Teutonic origin. They asked that the Dunedin Returned Soldiers' Association should take the matter up, and demand an apology from ■ the newspaper concerned. In reporting the matter to the meeting of the executive of the association, the secretary stated that the men were still in gaol as suspected aliens, but that their cole I anxiety seemed to be to have the asper- > sion cast on their nationality removed. ; The executive decided to take no action in the matter. a Is the »ex line only physical and not • moral? See "Woman" at the Strand Theatre to-day.—(Ad.^