DEPORTATION ORDERED

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20785, 21 April 1939, Page 8

DEPORTATION ORDERED

GERMAN SEAMEN CHARGED NO INTENTION OF DESERTING (By TelegTaph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Friday Charged with deserting from the German ship Dortmund at Auckland or. April 13, Heinz Welling (18) and Willi Ostkamper (20) told Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Police Court to-day, through an interpreter, that they missed the ship and had no intention of deserting. They admitted entering New Zealand without a permit. The collector of customs asked for a deportation order, stating that the ship was now out of New Zealand waters but would be at Wellington on May 8. The magistrate made a deportation order, the two men to be kept in custody in the meanwhile. The charge of desertion was withdrawn. NEW PLYMOUTH CHARGES TWO MEN IMPRISONED MINISTER’S INTERVENTION (By Telegraph.—Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday Four young Germans appeared in the New Plymouth Court this morning charged with desertion and being prohibited immigrants. Joseph Stein (IS) and Karl Friedrich Drews (19), who deserted from the Dortmund at Auckland on April 11 and were arrested at New Plymouth on May 14, were sentenced to two months’ imprisonment and ordered to be placed aboard the Dortmund when she returns to Wellington on May 8 to load for Germany. A remand was granted in the case of Hans Kobald and Karl Sctyroeder, who pleaded guilty to deserting from the Kommodore Johnsen at Auckland. It was stated if they returned to Germany they would be regarded as military deserters and have to face a serious penalty. Mr F. L. Frost, M.P., is interesting himself in their case and the matter is being taken up by the Minister of Marine. ♦