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case when on board ship. kr. Fiešsher kowever pointed out that the guards hitherto suplayed vere untrained, They were now being put through a regular course of discipline and training on the man lines as the Hong Kong Felice recruits, and he thought there could be no doubt that in future they could be relied on, and would be menable to the dissipline of the Masters,

lir. Fletcher assured the representatives of the Guilds that the long long loverment are very arious to de all they can to deal effectively with the problem, and they would welcome my practical sugestions that the Guilds sauld make. In his view the crux of the whole matter lay in the maintermuse of a proper state of disciplina. This view was borne out by the fact that the ships of the more reputable linen, by whom the regulations are observed and good discipline enforced, have been Issons from attack. The plain fast was however that

while the bulk of the China Coast officers vere an

admirable body of men, there were a number of "dead-hands'

were not fit to be in charge of shipa and who were

ready to take jobs under conditions that were a disgrace,

The less reputable linese owners regarded the require-

ments laid down by the Ferchant Shipping cars that

properly certificated offisers should be carried on all

ships on the British register, as a muisaTICO, Thay mployed there useless "dead-henis" at out rates of pay, merely to smply with the letter of the regulations

celain and it was notorious that in my cases, onde out of

for practical propors

pert, these officers(took no further part in the management of the ship, which was onbirniyim bi at by the owner tood the Chinese, boʻmas and compradoraș • nie

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