“BLACK HAND”
SUPPRESSION PROPOSED BILL IN AUSTRALIA CANBERRA, May 16. The Federal Government to-day took another step to suppress “Black Hand” activity in North Queensland. Moving the second reading of an American Immigration Bill in the Senate, the .Minister for the Interior, Senator Foil, said that the bill was designed to increase the Federal Government’s power to deport members of the “Black Hand” and other undesirable aliens. “From time to time,” Senator Foil said, “aliens extort money or attempt to extort money from their countrymen by threatening to burn down a home or a cane crop—methods that we cannot tolerate. Only a handful of aliens have given trouble in. the .past, and we are determined to prevent anything in the nature of a gang raising its ugly head.” The bill provides for the deportation of any alien convicted of attempted extortion or any other criminal offence that incurs a sentence of a year’s imprisonment. The debate was adjourned.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20259, 29 May 1940, Page 2
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