I.W.W. IDEAS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 1 August 1918, Page 7

I.W.W. IDEAS.

DISLOYALIST IMPRISONED

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HAMILTON, Aug. 1. Francis Walker, an old man, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on a charge of disloyal utterances. When the police went to arrest his •son. who disappeared into the bush to avoid military service, the police said that the son would have come in but for the father's incitement to resist service. The old man brandished a knife when the police appeared, and said that his son had gone to Auckland.

The police described accused as a dangerous man, imbued with I.W.W. ideas.