BOLSHEVIK IDEAS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1039, 11 June 1924, Page 10

BOLSHEVIK IDEAS.

EX-RUSSIAN ARMY OFFICER. DEPORTATION SUGGESTED. Otto Jabo, a Russian Pole (45), came up for sentence at the Police Court at Auckland before Mr Poynton, S.M., on a charge of stealing an overcoat, valued at £2 15s. Since he last appeared in Court, said the senior sergeant, it had been ascertained that accused was sentenced to three days' imprisonment last year for a similar theft. • Mr Campbell, the Probation Officer: This man, sir, was a lieutenant in the Russian Army, and took part in the Russian-Japanese War. He was dismissed from the army because of his Bolshevik ideas, and after spending some time in Japan and other countries, he came to New Zealand. Ho tells me that he committed the theft because of starvation. He cannot get work here, and I understand that the house he and his wife and child live in at Parnell is in a filthy condition. Not only is he a Bolshevik, but he and his wife and child will become a burden on the State. They are already living on charity. The wife hardly speaks English, and the child is not being taught English. Jabo: My child does speak English. Adjutant Gordon, of the Salvation Army, said that she knew the home. It had got into a bad state, and the family had been given food. She had an experience with Jabo one day in her office. He came in, and she asked him if he could not get a position, whereupon Jabo "got very dreadful about our flag and country." He said that nobody would give him work because of his nationality. Mr Poynton : The man should be deported. He is now a Polish subject. How can he expect to get work when he goes round preaching Bolshevism. He'll be letting his fanaticism get the better of him, and he might even blow up some of our public buildings. Is his wife the same as her husband, Adjutant? Adjutant Gordon: Well, she is hard to understand, sir; she has St. Vitus' dance. The child is a fine healthy one. Mr Campbell: This man has a university your Worship. Mr Poynton: i T es, that makes him all the more dangerous. Accused was remanded until June 16. In the meantime Mr Poynton said that he would report the matter to the authorities in Wellington with a view to having Jabo deported. He asked the Adjutant to keep her eye on the home and to see that Jabo and his wife were not boycotted.