LASCAR CREWS
DEFECTIVE IN EMERGENCY.
(«N!TE»4llBBS ASSOCIATION.—COPSIUBMT.)
(AUSTRALIAN - NEW; ZEALASD CABLE ASSOCIATION.) ■ LONDON, 26th May.
Mr. J. Havelock Wilson (president of ihe National Sailors and Firemen's Union), interviewed, said the only knowledge that the lascars ran amuck in connection with the loss of the Egypt came from newspapers, but the facts would-be revealed at the Board of Trade inquiry. The view of the Sailors and Firemen's Union is that safety first should apply on the sea as on land. It is. utterly impossible to get effective boat crew drill from men of miied nationalities. It is 'utterly useless to expect the orders of .officers to be conveyed to an alien crew in an emergency. Lascar crews were all very well on the coast of India, but were very unreliable in cold climates. Such crews should be employed on tho seas where they are recruited.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 124, 29 May 1922, Page 7
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144LASCAR CREWS Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 124, 29 May 1922, Page 7
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