KISCH RELEASED FROM SHIP.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 November 1934, Page 5

KISCH RELEASED FROM SHIP.

ARRESTED BY POLICE. DICTATION TEST IN GAELIC! (By Telegraph-Press Assn. —Copyright) .Received Friday, 10.15 p.m. SYDNEY, Nov. l'G. Mr. Justice Evatt, of the High ■Court, to-day ordered the discharge of • Kiseh,. the Czechoslovakia!! journalist, from the custody of the Strathaird's captain. He was carried off the ship on a chair, greeted with a few desultory hand-claps and then escorted by police and Customs officers to a taxicab, in which he was conveyed to the poJice station, where he "was given a test in Gaelic. He was then arrested and chaiged with being a prohibited immigrant. He will appear before the <Jourt to"morrow. LADY SOLICITOR FOR KISCH. BRUTAL ATTACK IN OFFICE. SYDNEY, Nov. 16. - Miss C.Jollie'Smith, a prominent Sydney solicitor, was preparing an affidavit on behalf of Kiseh in her office this morning, when a man entered and struck her over the head with a piece of iron piping. She was taken to hospital.' with badly-lacerated wounds in the scalp and probable concussion. Her assailant was arrested. 'Later. It is understood that the attack on Miss Smith was connected with a divorce case in which she appeared yesterday, and was in no way connected with the Kiseh case, although she was engaged upon that when the assault occurred. ACCOUNTANT CHARGED WITH OFFENCE. Received Friday, 11 p.m. SYDNEY, Nov. 16. Ernest Lamb, aged 51, an accountant, was charged in the Central Police Court ■with having unlawfully assaulted Miss Smith. He was also charged with common assault. Lamb was remanded till November 27. NEW ZEALAND DELEGATES TO, ANTI-WAR CONGRESS. PARENTS DISCLAIM KNOWLEDGE OF WHEREABOUTS WELLINGTON, Last Night. The parents of Mr Ge||f(t Griffin, with whom he lives in Wellington, disclaim knowledge of their son's whereabouts-, except what they have read in the newspapers, but .they have no rea- "* son to doubt that it was he who was first interviewed by Sydney Press representatives.. They say their last di- ; reet information from him was a tele- . phone message about 4 p.m. on Thursday week, but in it he did not indicate his intention of leaving. ;The Marama left Wellington for Sydney a little after 3 p.m., but the Wanganella sailed from Auckland for Sydney the following morning. It would have been possible for Mr Griffin to board that ship. A Sydney Customs Department official expressed the belief that he travelled .by the Wanganella.

KISCH DECLARES GRIFFIN VISITED HIM ON STRATHAIRD.

(Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) ISYDNEY, This Day,

Kiach, speaking to-night at Sydney Hospital, while under police guard, said that in his few minutes of freedom between the. ship and court, Kiseh declared that Oerald Griffin, for whom thte authorities^re searching, had actually -visited hint«in.his cabin on the Strathaird.