Amazing Incident

Inangahua Times, 28 February 1933, Page 1

Amazing Incident

A remarkable instance of discrimination in shipping has recently become known, says the shipping correspondent of The Times, London. An important North of Knelanrl firm transacting In sine-w wit!r India and the bar lot - * > t ■, laj i ■ t_- mll> o r of an Italian jinn in Milan with which it is a :-oe tied in commcrco, to proceed to India and China, with a view to meeting the consignees of goods. Accordingly, on the instructions of the British (inn, tickets wore issued for !he passage to the Bar East, and were forwarded to the Italian, and accommodation was reserved for him in a British liner leaving Marseilles for Bombay, where lie was to make a stay. Tlio account was rendered in duo course to the British merchant firm in Manchester. Later the British shipping agents were astonished to receive a telegram from Manchester staring that the firm had heard from Milan that the Italian businessman had been refused permission by the Italian Government to join a British ship at Marseilles, and that ho could only proceed by an Italian vessel. Consequently the accommodation in the British liner bad to bo cancelled. Ine view i.t held among British > business men that if the Italian | Cio\L‘, nment forbids its nationals 'to sail in Bruts':, -h ![-.•; the lime has 1 surely come lor the British Govern|nr art 10 consider < orrt. sponrli ng ' action. i It wi 1 he rein ’ bio I that attention has laic .. i r) C a!! dto the passages o' moy Bu I h old,- !o and from I mb.a in I talinn -It ps although thi ii ' arc pri 1 ! , v ill ■ Br.tish and 1 Jan Go vei iitnni uq r 1 he mwt ■ to ~l ,he B t tish lines are known trongly, ihe rsuitra-o ot lie : s'i companies, which fatly ;.t:,| for , r | UH I int i . md ihe fort go lines, , ; which ,1 '. fly .übsidts -d, and j SU( hto ■ ; u : t ts t - now r cported to !: t t ■ o. 1 orcign service,