RESCUED CHINESE SAILORS
REINCARNATION STORY (Recd. 9.5 Op.mJ Ottawa. March 15 Fifty-four Chinese sailors rescued from torpedoed ships refused to sign on other ships. The Chinese argued* that by an old Chinese custom a rescued person becomes forever afterwards the rescuer’s ward, and also argued that when torpedoed (hey were virtually dead and were re- J born again only when the rescue boat ( landed them in Canada. Therefore, 1 they contended, they were- Canadian citizens by birth and entitled to re- 1 main. 1 Immigration authorities rud n lv c brushed the incarnation theory aside ( and ruled that the Chinese must 1 either go to sea or be deported. 1
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 65, 18 March 1942, Page 5
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