"WANT A FREE COUNTRY."

Mataura Ensign, 20 March 1909, Page 6

"WANT A FREE COUNTRY."

CUV OF GERMAN IMMIGRANTS. The H.M.s. Asturias, which lately arrived at, Perth, brought !)(>2 passengers to Australia, ol whom 570 were third class. The latter included <M for West Australia, of whom M were assisted or nominated emigrants, chielly agriculturalists and domestics. There is a contingent of 160 cGimans, comprising M 7 families, who are going to Queensland to form a German community at Gayndah, where a small party of Wcstphalians settled two years ago. The loader of the party said: "We want hind and work for ourselves in a free country, and to ho our own masters; and we are here despite the efforts of the Imperial Government to prevent us." The German authorities wished this emigration party to go to .South-west Africa, and difficulties, it is alleged, were placed in the wav of booking for Australia by the Nord-dciitseher-Lloyd steamer; but Mr Tozer, the Queensland Agent-General, arranged that they should go to Londou and go out in the Asturias.