CHINESE CREWS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 116, 22 June 1914, Page 10

CHINESE CREWS.

The Imperial Merchant Service Guild continue to receive reports from their members commanding and officering British ships of the constant, and grave troubles they experience in dealing with Chinese crews. In one case, owing to serious troubles with Chinese .seamen and ".firemen, the officers , and engineers of .a British ship lying atTDran declined to proceed farther in the vessel, and their objections were only got over by a promise that the vessel would put into Gibraltar, where the .delinquents "were then dealt with ashore. The Clyde agent of the guild reports that recently two second officers declhiei to sail on a steamer, on the ground that' she carried a Chinese crew-