FOREIGNERS ON BRITISH SHIPS.
A NECESSARY EVIL. LONDON, July 12. In the House of Commons, Mr Flanner,’ asked the Government to legislate to prevent ships sailing under the British flag unless officered and manned by Britishers, in view of the number of such vessels, owned and insured by. British underwriters, being recently lost in circumstances suggesting intentional scuttling and stranding. The Right Hon. Stanley Baldwin, president of the. Board of Trade, said he had read reports of such eases, but insistence on complete British manning would drive vessels from the British register, and thus would not be of national advantage.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18532, 14 July 1922, Page 7
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