WHERE IS GRIFFIN?

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19961, 20 November 1934, Page 7

WHERE IS GRIFFIN?

CONFLICTING REPORTS IN AUSTRALIA EVASION OF AUTHORITIES United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright SYDNEY. November 19. The movements of Gerald Griffin the New Zealand pacifist who evaded the Federal authorities’ efforts to prevent his landing in Australia, are intriguing the public of two States. The questions being asked are: Ls there one Griffin or several Griffins, and are anti-war agitators running a dummy Griffin to mystify the Federal authorities? A man alleged to be Griffin addressed a meeting at Newcastle on Saturday afternoon, and at Melbourne, on Sunday night, a mun claiming to be Griffin addressed a meeting of protest against the exclusion of Kisch. Five thousand people in the Melbourne Stadium had been listening to addresses condemning the Federal Government for barring Kisch and Griffin, when the chairman asked “if Gerald Griffin is in the hall, will he stand up?” Then, as a bespectacled man rose, men and women rushed from their seats cheering and yelling. When order was restored the man purporting to be Griffin said: “The Federal Government was not able to prevent my entry, and then cannot prevent my message. I want to tell you that in New Zealand we are opposed to war, and wunt you to help us to smash the play of warmongers.”