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CANBERRA. The Australian bishops' appeal for the acceptance into Australia of 10,000 Indochinese and Timorese refugees on humanitarian grounds has been rejected by the Commonwealth Government.
A new library and resource centre, pictu red above, is part of buildings to the vclue and voluntary on the grounds that we are $211,000 recently opened and blessed at Mercy College, Koondoola. The college will go of represenatives of the Federal agencies, when they were a small organisation." co-educational next year. (See also Page 2). Catholic Immigration Com- "not necessarily tied togethThe national vice-presimittee, St. Vincent de Paul er." dent and chairman of the Society, Austcare and other He said that he felt Aus- national committee on mivoluntary organisations were tralia's capacity to admit re- grants and refugees of the told that only from 1,500 to fugees was expanding and St. Vincent de Paul Sod2,500 Indochinese refugees that 5,000 to 10,000 refu- ety, Mr. Ted Bacon, said would be admitted into gees, considering their des- that the tenor of the conferAustralia in the next 12 perate situation, could be ence was that co-operation Qtonths. admitted into Australia this between the Government and voluntary agencies was Irt The secretary of the De- coming year. in the matter of Reportedly suffering from partment of Immigration He said that he was dis- necessary (NC). ROME terminal stomach cancer, and Ethnic Affairs, Mr. appointed with the Govern- refugee intake. mysteries the Among firmly saying had asked to be "They were Kappler Llyod Bott, and the first as- ment's undertaking to take allowed to die in Germany sistant secretary, Mr. Derek in no more than 2.500 this that it was both a commun- surrounding the escape but Italian authorities reity matter and government Volker, told representatives coming year. of the Nazi war crimfused. of the voluntary agencies Father Foale said that he matter," Mr. Bacon said. vofor what They called Kappler inal Herbert that the Government's deci- attended the Canberra conwhose weight Kappler, could sion was based on Austral- ference on behalf of his own luntary organisations ,its dean to about 105 from a military hospiia's capacity to accept and organisation in South Aust- do, he added. apparently pounds, was He said that he thought tal in Rome is the ideneffectively resettle refugees. ralia and of the Indo-China smuggled out of Rome's in strong co-operation was ma- tity of a priest addresIn a situation where the Refugee Associations Hospital in Cello Military but "more co-operMinister for Immigration Canberra, Melbourne and nifested a large tnink by his wife. was envisaged than I see of a letter given to ation MiMr. not alAffairs, were which Sydney, Ethnic and The former Gestapo chief the gate guard by the Vatican Radio at the time chael MacKellar, says tit: lowed to attend the meeting. thought." In an interview. the priIn view of the number of The public relations offiGovernment must have full son chaplain, Father Gab- called on angry Romans to has been indirectly involvin- prisoner's wife. organisations voluntary for years in court suits ed resof and compassion cer of the Indo-China Aefucontrol, the brunt riele Martino, said that he show mercy resettleflowing from the massacre At a l'ress conference was not the one to whom to Kappler. ponsibility has been passed gee Association of Sydney, volved in refugee Gothe and assistance, ment at the Ardeatine Caves on .as to the voluntary agencies. Mrs. Margaret Grouse said: vernment requested the cre- the Italian Minister of De- the letter was addressed, the outskirts of Rome. fence, Vito Lattanzio said and no-one had given the KILLINGS "We tried to get permisThe president of the Indocommitof a steering ation by given the letter that meeting attend the letter to him. China Refugee Association sion to In 1975, a relative of the was Kappler (70) tee from the voluntary agen- Kappler was in a very bad In Adelaide, Father Jeffries with voluntary agencies and The chaplain said that Gestapo chief in Rome dur- Pope Pius XII won a court cies. was addressed to a certain Foale, said that he was dis- Government officials. case against author Robert It was expected it would Monsignor whose name was Kapper was in very bad ing World War II. "The requtst was sent to appointed with the Governcondition, reduced to "a He has been imprisoned Katz over Katzs charge, in Canberra personally by be taken up at another not clearly written. ment's attitude. shadow." been his hook "Death in Rome" November. having in after 1948 meeting since He said that he thought ICRA Canberra, and to Mr. been told had convicted of directing the that the Government's represen- MacKellar personally by us reprisal killings of 335 Ita- beforehand about the massNO RELEASE tatives seemed to be saying in Sydney. have been and might on acre lian civilians in Rome. Both the Canberra office there should be a diiect able to prevent it. Last No, ember Vatican March 24th, 1944. connection between the Go - and Mr. MacKellar refused Radio pleaded for elem The total number of refu- ency for Kappler. GENEVA (NC). He was to have been regees who have left Indochina since the spring of 1975 is 250,000, according to a United leased under an Italian law, to be Nations High Commissioner for Refugees re- that allows prisoners set free if they show report. morse and have served at This ear the arrival rate least 28 years. That figure was cited in France was refugees in for an article on Indochinese Kappler was sentenced to Coming refugees in the current is- 1,000 a month. life imprisonment. mainly from camps in Thaisue of "Migration News." Hut after a protest march refugees The two countries in land, most of these Laotians and Khmers by about 4,000 people in which most Indochinese re- are Rome, Italy's highest milifugees have been resettled (Cambodians). tary court overturned an noted News" the United "Migration and are France 11. order to release him. that since a little more than States. a year ago, a new category five space of Within the had appeared ON INSIDE PAGES months at the beginning of of refugees the "boat cases", who have "Wheiequallty comes first" 4 the resettlement process, Calendar in small boats from fled 385 Canning Highway, Melville. the United States received Vietnam and other Indo- Classified 130,000 Phone 391711 Lic. No. 3371. about and resettled Advertising 10 chinese countries. refugees from South-East Letters 11 The U.N. commissioner Asia. HONDA . 4 than News In Pars As of May 8 this year, reported that more 10, 12 France had received a total 4,000 boat cases had been Sport WMP-7 9 of 25,751 refugees from temporarily resettled during Theatre 1976. 11 TV and Radio South -East Asia. At a meeting in Canberra, vernment
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