The sun., 1919-07-09
AUSTRALIA ROOTS 7
OUT BOLSHEYISTS
Heavy Prison Sentences and
Deportation Used Against
Foreign AgitatOrs.
SOLDIERS PROVE LOYAL
Men Returning From Francs
Especially Bitter Toward
Home Disturbers.

zone thing IL certain. Australia WIN
have the Bolshevists for the next severn
teen years." said Festus Lees of Young
& Lees. Sydney. who Ii visiting
America in the interests OF Australian
producers Of primary products. He
proceeded to explain that the Austral-
ian authorities and people are bitterly
opposed to all forms of lawless RADICAL
ism, have arrested a number Of the !,
most active asitators and given them
prison sentences for the maximum num-
Der OF years permitted by the Austrar
liam penal code.
''All the Australian returning eoi-
diers are determined that these enemies
Of society shall be either confined. de-
ported or wiped out II they persist In
things in the southern Commonwealth.
Australia Is also tremendously bitter
toward tho Germans and 10 officially
deporting all those who have been In
termed during the period Of the war;
said Mr.. Lees.
"One of the greatest problems facing
the Australian Government to-day 10
| that Of the returned soldier. There 10
something like 100000 of them who viii
dustry, but after leading the open life
which warfare has taught these men
to prefer. despite the hardships which
they went through in Mesopotamia,
Gallipoli and on the French front. they
do not take kindly to the idea Of goinS
back into factories. offices and stores.
The Government Is dealing very gensr-
ously with them in the matter Of land
allotments. &C.. and the. soldiers' well
70 LII A~ns
| and satisfactory settling Of this prob
| lem. .-
About 80, 900 OF these fighters have
come back with English, and In some
few cases French. wives. and are now
| anticipating the establishing OF homes In
| Australia. The Australian, lilse the
American doughboy. 10 apt to indulge
his sense OF hurnor to a point approach-
ing the danger line. and many I'm
mensely funny stories are related OF the
| tales they have told their new brides.
For instance, one Australian soldier told
his English wife that he owned an exI
tensive ostrich farm on Circular Quay.
| IN Sydney, which would be about as SEN
| sible as for a doughboy to tell his Eng
! lish bride that he was running o similar
farm at South Ferry.
! Enthusiastically, there IL an era OF
unprecedented prosperity for Australia.
| uihsriuCu Ab tHe CountTy - u ITcncuuUuS
producer OF primary products for which
there Is a ready demand In all parts Of
the world, a demand which will continue
for many years"
! Mr.. Lees further stated that one Of ne
| great benaflts to accrue to Australia
through the war is the forming Of an a.
ISOLATION by all the returned soldiers
OF the several Australian States, which
| Is already exertlng q tremendous infiu.
| ence In Australian governmental affairA
Naturally this association Is wonderfully
cosmopolitan and will act along liberal
and non-partisan lines.
Before going to the war the average
Australian was very provincial. but his
extensive travels through many coun-
tries for duty on many fronts has
BROUGHT him in contact with many other
| people. and he seems to have absorbed
the best OF the ideas and none Of the
radicalism with which he has come in
contact during the period OF his over
| seas service.
Many Of these troops have been re-
| turned to Australia by way of America,
and the cordial welcome and wholesome
| entertainment which was given to them
| while in America made a definite and
lasting impression. and these men have
| gone back to Australia preaching tho
gospel Of Americanisun. so that the feel
ing OF the individual Australian toward
America and individual Americans Is far
more cordial than at any time since
that period Immediately following the
visit Of the American fleet to the Antip-
odes during the Roosevelt Admins
tration. Australia looks forward to in
tensifed and far closer relations with
America than either country has ever
| enjoyed before"