AN ABLE CAPTAIN
CONFIDENCE OF OWNERS TO DEAL WITH EMERGENCY British Official Wireless. EUGBY, 21st June, The London office of tho Australian Commonwealth Line is without information regarding the situation which, according to -wireless reports, has occurred aboard its liner Jervis Bay owing to the threatening attitude assumed by eight men, stated to be stowaways. The Admiralty has received no report on the subject from the cruiser Enterprise, which, in response to a demand for naval aid, called for further reports from the Jervis Bay. The anxiety of friends and relatives of the 600 passengers on the vessel has to somq extent been allayed by assurances of the officials in London that tho Jervis Bay is under the command of one of the oldest and" most experienced captains in their service, and that they havo tho fullest confidence in him to deal with any emergency. The Jervis Bay is in the Indian Ocean, and is duo at Colombo on Monday next. She carries a crew of 120.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 146, 22 June 1928, Page 9
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167AN ABLE CAPTAIN Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 146, 22 June 1928, Page 9
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