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A STRANGE STORY. CHARGE OF MUTINY WITHDRAWN. (A. and N.Z. Cable). PARIS, Feb. 19. Captain Cookery, of the liner Amazone, withdrew proceedings against the members of the crew charged with mutiny under remarkable circumstances. The seamen, who had been in prison for some time, were released.
The mutiny started when a steward considering himself insulted by a passenger, referred the matter to the secretary of the Seamen’s Union, who happened to be aboard. The secretary ordered that the passengers were not to he served by any steward. Other passengers intervened, and then all the stewards demanded that the passenger should be put ashore. The mutiny then commenced, and the passengers were refused all food. A Soviet tribunal was set up.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15129, 21 February 1922, Page 5
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122AT SEA. Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15129, 21 February 1922, Page 5
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