War-time Episode On Liner
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 13. Dr. J. Maguire, who said in his book, “The Sea Was My Surgery,” that Australian troops were the worst disciplined of those carried by the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mary, has denied that the crew of the Queen Elizabeth tried to burn her in 1941. At Canberra yesterday. Senator John Marriott said that the crew tried to burn the ship when she was carrying 3500 Australian troops to the Middle East in 1941. The “Daily Telegraph” today quoted Dr. Maguire: “I was certainly there during the April. 1941, passage. I know nothing of any attempt by our crew to delay the ship at any time or of attempts to burn her. nor do I believe that such things happened.
“I do not believe there was any question of members of the crew I withholding food from the troops and then selling it to them. “I personally never heard of members of the crew trying to stir up trouble.”
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28435, 15 November 1957, Page 8
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