IMPRISONED FOR SIX WEEKS.
ALLEGATION BY SHIP’S MATE. United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 18, 728 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 18. Allegations that for a small offence at Papeete he was placed in irons for 24 hours, and imprisoned in a cabin for six weeks until the ship arrived at Newcastle to-day was made by Sunde, second mate of the Norwegian steamer June. The Vice-Consul for Norway is conducting an Inquiry. Sunde stated that he took a bottle of wine from a bag near the captain’s cabin. When the captain arrived on board he ordered the whole of the crew into a bunker hatch, herding them with a revolver. Later Sunde was locked in a cabin, with rusty handcuffs on his wrists.
Captain Hannevig’s version is that when he arrived on board, he found that there had been almost a riot, the crew had stolen a quantity of liquor, and were drunk. “I held them up with a revolver, and armed all the officers with batons. Sunde threatened me with his fists.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18830, 19 March 1931, Page 9
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172IMPRISONED FOR SIX WEEKS. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18830, 19 March 1931, Page 9
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