THE MUCH-TRAVELLED DEPORTEE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 214, 4 June 1919, Page 7

THE MUCH-TRAVELLED DEPORTEE

SYDNEY'S CAUSE CELEBRE

LABOUR DEMONSTRATION By Telegraph—Press Aeeociation-ConvrieM' Sydney, June 3. A huge crowd headed by a band marched from Hie Trades Hall to the wharf to protest asfaiiist the detention of the mail Freemen. At one lima it looked as if the ship would be boarded. The prisoner was released, but it wae decided to call a strike of wharf labour* ,crs to hold up the vessel uutil Freeman is liberated, 'i'lio ship's surgeon states that freeman is now in a dying condition as the result of his hunger strike. A meeting of several thousand peoplo held up the traffic in the centre of the city last night to protest .against Freeman's detention—Press Assn. (Rec. Juno 3, 9.55 p.m.) Sydney, June 3. The Freeman case is assuming a serious aspect. The public is thoroughly aroused, demanding a fair trial. Crowds besieged the wharf to-day. The Labour sections aro determined to hold up the Sonoma until Freeman is put ashore. Tho ivjiarf labourers have refused to work the cargo, and the seamen and firemen threaten to strike unless . the military authorities sanotion Freeman's removal. Freeman denies tho allegations that ho is of German extraction or has any connection with tho 1.W.W.-l'rcss Aesn. COLLISIONS WITH THE POLICH. FREEMAN TAKEN ASHOUJ3. (Rcc. Juno i, 0.15 a.m.) Sydney, Juno 3. There, were further demonstrations tonight in connection with tho ]:'r«emnn nfi'iuv, and tome collisions with the police. Tho mob threatened to inriula the wharf, and the police used their batons. In a subsequent message lliu I'fdonu authorities ordered Freeman's removal ashore, pending imiuiry, aud lliV litoi £ pacifying effect.—Press Assn. DANGEROUS I.W.W. AGITATOR. TO HE AGAIN DEPORTED. Melbourne, June 3. Senator Russell has announced that Froeninn w a disloyal and dimerous I.W.W. agitator. Ho was boru Jn America, of Gorman parents. He will be deported at tho first opportunity. [It was stated yesterday that Free, man, without any reasons being giwii, was placed aboard tho steamer Sonoma by • tho military authorities for deportation to America. Refused admission to America, Freoinan was carried from San Francisco ami back three times. Tho Sonoma is now in Sydney, iiml Freeman has started a hunger strike, with the object of compelling the authorities to grant him a trial. He lijis fasted foiseveral days, and is very weak.l

A NEW WIRELESS WONDER

I'Kltll.S BANISHUU. (I'fee. Juno 4, 1.5 n.in.) London, May 22 (dolsyed). Mr. Godfrey Isaacs slates tluiL n. wireloss device in iivailablu now which will niablu vessels to nsccrlain their position in a t'o:r. and doted: (hu approach mid approximate distance of other vessels. The. new transmitter will enable persons (lying (0 know whore they arc u easily as a railway passenger looking out of tliit window. It could also be fitted on lightships and buoys to warn ship-ping.—Aue.-N.Z. Cable Aesn.