BLUFF FAILS
INCIDENT ON DUTCH SHIP
UNIONISTS’ RUSE
(Rec. 12.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 31. Two union representatives who boarded the Dutch ship Tasman and asked the Australian members of the crew to leave the ship are alleged to have threatened the men with physical violence when their demands were refused. The two men are reported to have described themselves as Government officials and to have boarded the Tasman without permission on the pretext that some Indonesian seamen had been “shanghaied.” It is alleged that the men told the Australian crew members that if they did not leave the ship they would need police protection when they next landed in Sydney. They are also reported to have said that if then demands were not met, another Dutch ship, the Straat Malakka, would be held up. The Australians refused to leave and the men were ordered off the ship by the captain. . The Tasman sailed last night ioi Batavia with 150 returning evacuees and a large cargo ’of food for the people just released from the Japanese camps in Java.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 May 1946, Page 7
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