JERGER SAILS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8360, 23 July 1920, Page 3

JERGER SAILS.

TRANSFERRED TO THE KHYBER. “HE MUST GO.” (Electric Telegraph.—Copyright). MELBOURNE, July 22.' A message from Adelaide states that the naval launch transferred Jerger from the Nestor to the Khyber late on Wednesday night. The Khyber is now sailing to Perth. Mr Hughes, commenting on the developments, said' that British seamen banished from British ships all German seamen without a trial. The Australian Government was banishing industrial Germans after careful inquiry. Jerger appealed to the higha S „ Ur , ts ° f the Commonwealth. All decided the same way. He must go.

Senator Gardiner raised the Jerger debate m the Senate. Senator Pearca, replying to Senator Gardiner, said:" “Jerger’s disloyal acts were notified to the department by devout Catholics, excepting in one instance. The pubilc demand for a trial was more to ascertain the informants’ names. Another priest who gave information to the Government had already been deported, but not by the Government.”— (A. & N.Z.)

SUCCESSFUL COUP.

ADELAIDE, July 2:

The Government’s coup in smuggling Jerger aboard the Khyber surprised and chagrined the priest’s supporters, but the feeling in the city is one of overwhelming satisfaction. A party of Jerger’s supporters is proceeding overland to Fremantle to meet the Khyber, which is due there on Sunday. MELBOURNE, July 22. In the House of Representatives Mr Tudor moved in adjournment to discuss the deportation, urging the Government to give Jerger a fair trial, then, if found guilty of disloyalty, to deport him.—(A. & N.Z.) TALKED OUT.

CASE DISCUSSED IN THE

HOUSE.

A SIGNIFICANT LETTER,

(Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This day. The adjournment motion in the House of Representatives re Jerger’s deportation w r as talked out. Mr Hughes explained that Jerger would have been deported long ago only the Ministry had mistakenly listened to the representations of the Opposition. Hence further trials and delays. Considerable interest was manifested respecting a letter written in 1917 by Father Peter Paul McDonnell, a Passionist colleague of Jerger, and forwarded to the authorities. McDonnell’s letter contains this statement:—“l am perfectly convinced Jerger is absolutely disloyal, and will take every means he safely can to encompass Germany’s triumph. Jerger is continually speaking in the Church in a manner calculated to discourage recruiting.” The writer suggested that he should be put where bis influence would be ineffective, as he was sure that influence would he used in the interest of Australia’s enemies.

Father Ryan, provincial of the Passionists, denied Mr Pearce’s statement that McDonnell was deported but not by the Government. He says:—“The priest left Australia of his own free will and became a military chaplain, and is now in Paris.” —(A. & N.Z.)