INSUBORDINATION
AUSTRALIAN NAVY
ENGLISH RATINGS’ DISCONTENT
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 10.15 a.m.)
LONDON, November 9,
The Australian Press Association understands that there was s ome insubordination on the Australian destroyers owing to the lower-paid English ratings bound for China, resenting the long training given the Australians en route, in which they had to join.
' They were also disgruntled ove,r the food, and overcrowding and the discontent- came to a head on shore leave at Gibraltar, where the malcontents cut the 'Stuart adrift from the mole, and threw ammunition and lifebuoys overboard.
Divers were engaged for half a day with t.he salvage of. the gear. Two submarine ratings have been dismissed, and several .others were placed under charge.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1933, Page 5
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