AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22422, 17 November 1934, Page 13

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

WOMAN SOLICITOR ATTACKED STRUCK WITH IRON PIPING SYDNEY, November 16. Miss C. Jollie Smith, a prominent Sydney solicitor, was preparing an affidavit on behalf of Kisch at her office this, morning when a n|an entered and struck her over the head with an iron piping. She was taken to the hospital suffering from a badly lacerated scalp and probable concussion. Her assailant was arrested. It is understood that the attack on Miss Jollie Smith was connected with a divorce case in which she appeared yesterday and was in ho way connected with the Kisch case, although she was engaged upon it when the attack occurred. AN ACCOUNTANT CHARGED SYDNEY, November 16. (Received Nov. 16, at 11.35 p.m.) Ernest Lamb, aged 51, an accountant, was charged at the Central Police Court with having unlawfully assaulted Miss Smith. He was also charged with common, assault. Lamb was remanded to November 27. DR ANGUS’S TEACHINGS SYDNEY, November 16. The ban of the New Zealand Presbyterian Assembly on the doctrine and teaching of Dr Angus, and on New Zealand students adopting it, will not affect any students at St. Andrew’s College, Sydney, it is stated, as_ there are no New Zealand students In the college. PROHIBITED IMMIGRANT CANBERRA, November 16. The Minister of the Interior (Mr T. Paterson) stated that the Government’s decision to prevent the entry of Kisch was irrevocable. If the decision of me High Court goes against Kisch he will probably be transferred from the Strathaird to the Narkunda, which is due to sail for London to-day. The Strathaird sails this afternoon for Brisbane and thence on a pleasure cruise to New Zealand. When the liner' Strathaird was leaving Melbourne for Sydney Kiisch, the Czechoslovakian author and novelist, jumped overboard and landed on tne wharf, spraining his ankle. He was immediately escorted back to the ship by two detectives. Kisch protested, saying that he could be arrested, but not returned to the ship. Many of his friends took part in the protest, causing a sensation. It has also been reported that a number of Communists incited Kisch to leap to the wharf. Earlier in the day the Chief Justice (Sir William Irvine) dealt with an application on Kisch’s behalf calling upon Captain Carter, master of the Strathaird, to show cause for his detention. The application was dismissed on the ground that he was an alien and had no right whatever to claim admittance to the Commonwealth. KISCH ARRESTED

SYDNEY, November 16. (Received Nov. 16, at 11.30 p.m.) Mr Justice Evatt, of the High Court, to-day ordered the discharge of Kisch from the custody of the Strathaird’s captain. He was carried off the ship on a chair and greeted with a few desultory handclasps.! He was then escorted by police and Customs officers to a taxi cab, in which he was conveyed to the police station, where he was given a test in Gaelic. He was then arrested and charged with being a prohibited immigrant. He will appear before the court to-morrow, ECCLESIASTICAL PAGEANTRY MELBOURNE, November 16. (Received Nov. 16, at 9.30 p.m.) Beginning with ecclesiastical pageantry in a street procession, with 11 bishops in scarlet and purple robed clergy, the concluding service of the Australian Anglican Assembly was held in St. Paul’s Cathedral to-day. The occasion was made notable by the presentation by Canon Barry of a piece of stone from Westminster Abbey, which he asked should bo let into the wall of St. Paul’s as a memorial to this century. The token from the Abbey church, which had been of nearly 1000 years standing, would bear witness to the consecration of national life nurtured by Christianity.