FOREIGN SEAMEN ON BRITISH SHIPS.
A DANGER TO THE NATION,
British ships are no longer manned by Britons. The hordes of foreigners who infest the service—Europeans of every race, Lascars—lndians' and. Asiatics — Chinamen, Malays, and others of lesser breeds—put up with conditions so rough and so hard, and in some cases so filthy, that t not only will no decent, self-respecting British seamen now accept them, but respectable boys from good homes, unless driven by desperation, will not go to sea. ■ At least 74,000 foreign seamen are employed on British merchant ships. The presence of these foreigners ia our mercantile marine is a standing menace to the nation in the event of a war breaking out. No merchant ship could be trusted by commanders of battleships to give or convey information. A Cargoes would be imperilled and our. food ; supplies held up. The foreigners are holding positions that should be occupied mainly by; Britishers. In the overcrowded stat* of the home labour market this; ia nothing short of a national calamity.—"Pearson's Magazine." ■'..
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Thames Star, Issue 14664, 19 April 1915, Page 7
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172FOREIGN SEAMEN ON BRITISH SHIPS. Thames Star, Issue 14664, 19 April 1915, Page 7
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