CHINESE CREW MUTINY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21735, 29 August 1932, Page 7

CHINESE CREW MUTINY

ATTACK BRITISH OFFICERS A DRIVEN OFF BY FASCIST MILITIA (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) t ROME, August 27. (Received August 28, at 11.40 p.m.) A mutiny of the Chinese crew, numbering 26, on the British tanker Haliotis at Naples was only controlled when the Fascist militia, with revolvers, boarded the vessel and locked the mutineers in two cabins. The trouble arose when the captai:- rebuked the helmsman for negligence. As the vessel was about to'sail, the helmsman closed with, the master, biting him severely on the hands before he was driven off by the other British officers. The helmsman called the other Chinese, and, they rushed the bridge armed with-, knives and other weapons. The officers defended themselves till the militia arrived. One Chinaman was taken to hospital;