New Guinea
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Dutch Priest Brought from New Guinea
THE young Dutch Roman Catholic A priest, Anthony Cranssen, who was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment with hard labour by Judge Wanliss in the Rabaul Supreme Court in May on a charge of arson, was brought to Sydney by the Tanda on June 24.
His escort, Captain F. W. As sistant District Officer in the Administra tion, said that Cranssen had pleaded guilty to the charge of having incited natives to burn the huts of a rival mis sion, and a heavy sentence had been im posed, The sentence was calculated to be a deterrent in a country fraught with many difficulties between white and native.
A priest of the Society of the Divine Word Mission, who met the prisoner, said that the term of imprisonment would be served in a New South Wales gaol.
On July 16, Messrs. Frank Brennan and Co., solicitors of Melbourne, gave notice to the Commonwealth Crown Solicitor of intention to apply to the High Court for leave to appeal against the sentence im posed on Father Cranssen. The hearing by the Full Court of the High Court has been fixed for August 10.
Mr. F. Mach in, manager of Kindar Estate, Solomon Islands, departed from Australia after leave by the Malaita at the end of June.