DISLOYAL UTTERANCE
■ELDERLY GERMAN SENT TO
GAOL.
Ohristian Frederick Edmund Ander6oh .appeared before Mr. L. G. Keid, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day, to answer a, charge of making use of a disloyal utterance. Anderson, who is " an elderly man, is a soap-pedlar by pro- • feaaion, and on a recent date "business" . took him to Lindsay's boot factory, in ; Woodward-street. Somebody made a re- : mark concerning the Kaiser, whereupon ' Anderson turned round and said : "The I German people are higher morally than 1 you. If it should take a hundred years, > the German Empire "will bo established '.', here. They would never have done what ■ they have if they had not received pro\ocation," which statement indicated ■■ disloyalty or disaffection in respect of ! the present war. Sub-Inspector Dew stated that the de- ■ fendant had been very • well treated by ' the" authoritiea, who, instead of placing , him on Somes Island, had allowed him - his freedom.
' Defendant: "But lam not a German j rI am a Dane."
The Sub-Inspector : "Our records show that the man is a German."
Defendant was sentenced to one month's imprisonment.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 41, 17 August 1917, Page 8
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181DISLOYAL UTTERANCE Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 41, 17 August 1917, Page 8
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