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: . • DEPORTATION TRIALS. WALSH AND JOHNSON. «|GH COURT GIVES REASONS. fftf CABIJt— PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIOH7.I /AefT** LUK ASI> N ' z ' Ck * Lt ASSOCIATION.) ' ifiieeived December 18th, 9.35 p.m.) •, SYDNEY, December 18.' 'th« reasons actuating the High «Wt in ordering the release of "Walsh ' M Johnson from custody were antomced to-day. rTjj the judges are unanimous in esLifliiig the opinion that the Comjftowealth cannot provide for the dedirtation of citizens who were in AusiTjjfr before the inauguration of Fedin 1901. The Court was of Minion that such a citisen could not ke ifHrtformed into an immigrant for the /-jtposes of the Immigration Act, un- , to which the deportation proceedings fjfo initiated. As Walsh arrived in iiutralia in 1892, he was released for

4Jb». reason. Tic Act, however, did extend to pcrJm'arriving in Australia since 1901, ' tsclqdiug Johnson, but he was released SJettue '* was necessary, before any pinon could lawfully be required to ; dljir cause to a board, or to suffer deportation, he should be informed with rtfynable definiteness of the particular tttt for which the Minister proposed # deport him. yo such information kSj," according to the evidence before ||e High Court, ever given. '"•V' * ATTACKS UNION. tOtUUkK AID K.Z. CABLB ASSOCIATTOS.) f}- SYDNEY, December 18. f4ffHHMOn, addressing the Labour ifjttcil, made a violent attack on the ||jfoien'a Union for its inaction over mVeportation proceedings. ■ fpk (aid ho was sorry it was the wind' sot industrial action that got wioit. ,