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BANNED NOVELIST
To Take Legal Action
EGON KISCH’S ALLEGATIONS
MELBOURNE, Monday
Allegations that passengers on the Strathaird had made it unpleasant for him when it became known that he would not be permitted to land in Australia were made by the celebrated Czechoslovakian novelist and lecturer, Herr Egon Kisch, when he reached Melbourne on the liner today.
Shortly after the vessel had berthed, Herr Kisch consulted a barrister and there is a possibility of his commencing legal proceedings as a result of imputations which, he alleges, have been made against him personally by the Commonwealth authorities who were responsible for having the ban placed upon him.
National Advocate, 13 November 1934
Rowland woke with Edna curled beside him. Having escaped the commotion of the open dec
