UNDESIRABLE VISITORS
BRAZIL AND STOWAWAYS Captains of Brazilian coastwise vessels are confronted with a perplexing situation in the port of Fortaleza of the State of Ceara, some hundred miles north of Rio de Janiero, and steamship companies have recently petitioned the Governor of Ceara to stop the Fortaleza police in their practice of deporting undesirable persons, says a special correspondent of “The New York Times.” According to the captains the process employed by the police officials consists in furnishing the deportee with an “authorisation” to go on board a certain fjhip. They do not give him passage money, however. If the deportee fails to sail on the designated ship or reappears in Fortaleze later he is subject to severe punishment. The ship arrives at another port with the deported stowaway and the officials there refuse to allow him to land. Returning eventually to Fortaleze, after admission to all ports has been refused, the Fortaleze 'officials also deny him the right to land there, under the pretext that the deported stowaway has no identification documents. There is nothing left for the captain to do but keep the undesirable aboard until the ship touches at a. port where the laws are not so strictly enforced.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 October 1929, Page 2
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