DRIFTING LINER
THE AIUTINY ON THE ROT TER DAM.
VESSEL’S POSITION LOOKED DANGEROUS.
CAPTAIN FORCED TO RETURN TO HOLLAND.
(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Sept. 7. S p.m.) LONDON, Sept.' 7.
The Times’ Hague correspondent says that, members of the crew of the liner Rotterdam reveal when the firemen and deckhands struck, ihe ship drifted for half an hour, and the position looked very clangorous. The captain then signed an agreement to return to Rotterdam, and the men resumed, but later struck again. The vessel anchored near the Westliinder lightship, and the men continued the mutiny, despite the presence of marines, who had been iseni for, until assured that the liner would proceed to Rotterdam. The mutineers were allowed to leave the ship, but ten foreigners were arrested. Negotiations for a settlement of the strike faded. 9
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11737, 8 September 1932, Page 5
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