Telegrams: SHIPMINDER, PARL, LONDON. Telephone: VICTORIA 3840.
M.6663/32.
COL
9AP
MERCANTILE MARINE DEPARTMENT,
BOARD OF TRADE,
GREAT GEORGE STREET,
13 19
WESTMINSTER, S.W.1.
8th April, 1932.
Con Sorbusen
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Dear Mr. Cowell,
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1 am sending an official reply to your official
letter No.82874/31 of the 30th March about the prosecution
of Captain T. Pritchard at Hong Kong, but there are one
or two points about the case on which I think I should
write you semi-officially. You will see that the China
Coast Officers' Guild wrote to the President of the Board
of Trade on the subject last year, and when their letter
came in the case was very fully discussed here. There
was a good deal of support for the view that the case was
an unfortunate one and that the representations of the
altogethe Officers' Guild were not unwarranted. it is certainly
true to say that had the incident in question occurred in
this country and the facts as stated in the documents
enclosed with your letter been brought to the Board's
notice, they would almost certainly have taken the view
that the case could be adequately dealt with by means of
a caution administered to Captain Pritchard by one of the
Board's officers; and there would not have been a ny
H.R.Cowell, Esq.,C.M.C
Colonial Office,
S.W.1.
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