HUNGER STRIKE ENDS
TWO MEN INTERNED IN AUSTRALIA COMMITTEE HEARS CASE (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 20. After 17 days without food Horace Ratliff and Max Thomas, two internees, ended their hunger strike last night. The National Security Advisory Committee concluded a two days’ hearing of the men’s case in the ward of the hospital. It will probably report its finding to the Minister of the Army, Mr P. C. Spender, on Monday. Ratliff and Thomas are so hopeful that the finding will be favourable that they broke their fast to build up their strength to take advantage of the expected release order. The men told the tribunal they would support Australia’s war effort, but they refused to acknowledge that the internment was either justified or justly executed.
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Southland Times, Issue 24492, 21 July 1941, Page 5
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