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What Inchcape Said

Thus Lord Inchcape at the annual meeting of the P. and O. (in which the Union Steamship Co. has merged) in London: "PROFITS HAVE INCREASED BY £94,242, despite heavy payment on account of the Wiltshire. The conservative policy of the P. and O. gave a handsome sum from investments, which justified the payment of a SIMILAR DIVIDEND AS IN 1921. There must soon he CONSIDERABLE REDUCTIONS IN SEAMEN'S WAGES If the ships w&r& to be kept runlng," Inchcape then went on to justify the employment of "cowardly Lascars" on the "Egypt," whom he can get more cheaply than his own countrymen. He Is a great patriot, and lores the flag.

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