BAD CONDITIONS ON MIGRANT SHIP TO AUSTRALIA ALLEGED
SYDNEY, May 1 (Rtcd. 6 pm).— AH' the Sunday papers feature articles concerning the allegedly shocking conditions suffered by migrants aboard tne French ship Ville Damiens, during her ten weeks’ voyage from Marseilles. Two holds of the ship, covered with tarpaulins, accommodated the thirdclass passengers, who said they had paid £l3O for the passage. The vesel brought 370 passengers, including 130 German, Austrian, Hurgarian and Polish Jews, most of whom had been interned in Germa concentration camps. The ship s officers twice refused to allow pressmcnn r.board, but when this was overcome, the passengers eagerly conducted the reporters on a tour of inspection. Lavatories and washrooms had not been cleaned during the voyage. There was no water supply for the third-class passengers during the day. Captain Yves Pons said that the shipping company was not responsible and that the “migrants were misled by the European Refugee Association,” which arranged their passages.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, 2 May 1949, Page 5
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