THE TURNING POINT
Five shillings and a bottle of beer apiece for the mutineers ended a dispute at the Cape Town docks on the Diolinda. a 200-ton schooner which arrived there recently after a nightmare 126-day passage from Liverpool. The Diolinda had been thoroughly refitted during her stay at Cape Town, and was about to continue her voyage to the Seychelles, when three members of the crew walked off and refused to rejoin their vessel. They complained about general conditions aboard. For four hours the whole persuasive power of the harbour staff, the captain of the Diolinda, the padre of the Missions to Seamen, combined with the threats of the railway police and the immigration authorities, were unable to move the men. Late in the afternoon the padre persuaded the youngest of the three to rejoin the ship.' A little later the other two accepted five shillings and a bottle of beer each from the skipper, and went aboard to the cheers of a crowd that had watched the argument for hours.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1937, Page 12
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172THE TURNING POINT Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1937, Page 12
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