BRITISH SUBJECTS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 12

BRITISH SUBJECTS

TREATMENT IN AMERiCA

'UNDER MIGRATION LAWS

(Received 23rd December, 2 p.m.)

LONDON, .22nd December. The 'Sunday Chronicle," following up assertions of allegedly degrading gaol treatment in the United States of British subjects contravening the American migration laws, asserts that as far as migration restrictions affect British subjects crossing the Canadian border, the United States violates the Jay Treaty giving free transborder passage to Britons and Americans. '

Gerald Crichton, an actor-playwright, who made the original disclosures, gives his experiences.

Bernard de Vine, an Australian seaman arrested by a migration official at San Pedro and charged with desertion, was acquitted by a Court Martial and handed over to the migration authorities at Los Angeles, who detained him two mouths awaiting deportation. He ivas placed in solitary confinement for . a fortnight because,' after finding maggoty meat in his ines3 tin, he threw the contents in the sheriff's face, wrenched the arm of another sheriff for taunting Britons, for which his face was bashed.

An unnamed Manchester man alleges hellish treatment in Los Angeles gaol, where he was incarcerated on a falsa charge.