SITUATION NOW CALM
Precautions In Trinidad
(British Official Wireless.) Rugby, November 25. Questioned in the House of Lords by the Duke of Montrose regarding the position in Trinidad, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for -the Colonies said that the Royal Commission was in the process of writing its report and the Governor had been asked to come home to confer with the Colonial Secretary on the recent happenings. Although tension had existed in the island, at the moment the situation was calm.
Precautions of a temporary nature had been taken to enable both employers and employees to adjust their relationships in a constitutional manner. With that object the warship York called at the island, and although she had now left a company of troops had arrived from Bermuda and been posted in the oilfields area. Sir Mark Young had taken over for the moment the administration of the island, and there were no signs of further disturbances.
The Under-Secretary said in conclusion that he hoped the commission’s report would bo available some time in the Now Year.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 54, 27 November 1937, Page 11
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