Telegrams- “SHIP MINDER, PARL, LONDON.” Telephone-WHITEHALL 5140 Ext.
Any further communication on this subject should be addressed to:-
The Assistant Secretary,
Mercantile Marine Department
(address as opposite)
and the following number quoted:-
M. 10 943/33.
65
MERCANTILE MARINE DEPARTMENT,
BOARD OF TRADE,
GREAT GEORGE STREET,
WESTMINSTER, S.W.1.
1933
O. REGY
12th December, 1933.
32,
(3)
Sir,
With further reference to your letter of the
26th October, (13834/33), about the telegram of the (/) 15th August from the Governor of Hong Kong regarding the
conditions under which certain Officers were discharged
at Osaka from the s.s. "Darro" and "Desna", I am directed
by the Board of Trade to state, for the information of
Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, that they are
advised that the repatriation clauses in the agreements
with the crews of those vessels, by which certain of the
officers were to be afforded passages to Hong Kong or
Shanghai only, are not illegal. The Board are therefore
unable to prohibit the insertion of such clauses in
similar agreements in future, or to require as a condition
of their insertion that a guarantee should be given on
behalf of the owners to meet any expenses that might be
incurred in the subsequent repatriation of the men
lopy (w/e, at week) H.HR. Y.
concerned to this country.
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office,
S. W. 1.
/ I