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Show MYLIUS WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO LAND ifP.uS111?; -D.ec- 2S Edouard V. MyUus, the Engllsn Journalist who served a year In Jail for libeling King George V.. will not be permitted to land on American Amer-ican shores, according lo a decision today to-day by a special board of inquiry at Ellis island hearing his appeal from an order of deportation. Mylius announced through his attornov Simon O. Poloclr, that ho would at once appeal to tho secretary of commcrco and labor, who has promised personally to dccldo the case. Mylius was detained when he arrived here last Sunday In tho etcerago of tho steamer La Provenco. Attorneys for the Political Defence league nnd the Free Speech league, which havo come to Ills eld, argue that Mylius is a political offender only and, as such, cannot be deported. The order of deportation, de-portation, thoy ray, was based simply on the law forbidding convicted criminals to enter the country. |