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THE

P. & 0.-British India GRIM TALE OF

Apcar and

Eastern & Australian Lines

MUTINY.

Passenger Describes Harrowing Experience.

dor

Muting and attempted mur

en An American steam- ship In the 3. Mediterranean, the stabbing of the first officer, the shooting of a rebellious sailor, the captain's failure for mysterious reasons to complain to tho American consuls at either Messina or Leghorn, the flight from the ship at the lattor port by three

ed the means to purchase transportation homeward these are the gory apots of a story told by William Edmund Aughinbaugh, M.D., who has reached Berlin with a tale that rivals the best of Joseph Conrad and reflects no credit on conditions in this particular unit of the United States merchant) marine.

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND).of the five passengers who possess

MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

TAKING CARGO FOR

STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, 'AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.).

8.8.

Tune

From Rong Kong About

26th Dec.

1931.

+CONFU

*ISOMALI

| 25,000

19th

Dec.

Noon

1 3,800

1932.

4th Jan.

9,000 | 16th

RAWALPINDI

*MIRZAPORE

KARMALA,

CHITRAL

KASHMIR NALDERA **SOUDAN

CARTHAGE

RAJPUTANA

**BURDWAN

CORFU

RAWALPINDI

RANPURA

CHITRAL

RANCHI

NALDERA

17,000 5,700

2nd Jan.

Jan. 15,000 30th Jan. 9,000 13th Feb. 16,000 27th Fob.

0,800

Destination.

Marseiller & London,

Marseilles, Havre, London,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.

CHINA

MAIL.

The boat returned from the island and the Excelsior continued ita trip around the southern tip of Greece, since the Corinth Canal was tom- porarily closed.

The next incident occurred just after the Excelsior left the Italian

port of Bari in the Adriatic, when

KING GEORGE'S FUND.

Duke of Connaught's

Appeal.

mutiny.occurred. It began ́as o, strike. The crow complained of A meeting of the General Coun. inhuman treatment, over long hours cil of King George's Fund for in the pitiless sunshine. The Sailors was held at Trinity House officers' authority had sunk to zero,

under the presidency of the Duke On the Excelsior, the officers are of Connaught. quartered forward and the crew The Chairman said that interim aft. At the end of the hot day the grunts totalling £6,800 had been crew refused to work longer. Cap-made since the New Year to those 'tain Wilson and the first; second | funds relieving urgent distress and third officers armed themselves among seafarers and their depen- with revolvers and went on deck dants. It was a matter for regret.

other uft.

Battle on Deck,

4

The crew lined up and defied the officers to cross a given line. One sallor, an Irishman named Duchans drew a long knife and said: "I'll kill any officer who crosses the line."

that the appeals in this regard| showed an increase on recent years, and this fact gave some indication, of the depressed state of the ship- ping industry.

It was unfortunate that there should be extra pressure | upon the fund at a time when all patriotic individuals were being)

The officers hesitated and then urged to exercise the utmost econo-

in

budgets. their private the first officer named Whetmore my Took Ship in Roumania.

crossed the line, revolver in hand. j.It was to be hoped that such For four months Dr. Aughin Duchane leaped upon him and stab economy would not be taken as bough had been travelling through, bed him three times. Whetmore meaning & reduction in their the Near East investigating the recoiled, bleeding heavily. Captain generosity to the charities which

1 economic and political situation and Wilson, with baking hand, fired at they had been in the habit of sup- collecting material for E book. Duchane's body and hit him in the porting. Early in August he embarked at leg. Constanza, on the steamship Excel- sior, C. H. Wilson, captain, for New York, The Excelsior is a freighter that idles, along coasts, stopping at every port for cargo and carrying a few passengers.

From the beginning, Dr. Aughin Bamburghaugh noticed peculiar relatione Between the officers and the Ameri çan members of the crew. The food was none too good and the passengers and crew complained.

The first incident came just after the Excelsior left Salonika. The

Bombay, Marseilles & London. Struits, Colombo & Dombay. M'scilles, L'don, R'dam & A'werp. Bombay, Marseilles & London. M'acilles, L'don, R'dam & A'werp.

Maraeities & London.

6th Mar. Havre, London, Hamburg, crew delected an Albanian stow-

15,000 12th

| 17,000 ( 20th

6,500 2nd

15,000 Oth 17,000 23rd 17,000

7th

15.000 21st

KAISAR-I-HIND 00

RAJPUTANA

MANTUA

11,000

2nd

1011

30th

Rotterdam, Anwerp & Hull. Mar. Marseilles & London.

Mar. Marseilles &

Londen,

London, Havre,

away who had hidden in the hold. Captain Wilson, furious, ordered that the man be put ashore at the

Apr. Kanban &

Antwerp. first land sighted.

Hamburg, Apr. Marseilles &

Jung Bay, arseilles & London.

Apr. Bombay, Marselles & London. May Bombay, Marseilles & London. May Bombay, Marseilles & London. 17,000 4th June Bombay, Marseilles & London. 16,000 18th

July

Moracilles & London, July Bombay, Maraeilles & London. July Bombay, Marseilles & Londen, 16th Aug. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 17,000 27th Aug. Bumbay, Marseilles & London. 11,000 10th Sept. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Cargo ogly. Calls Casablanca. I Calls Djibouti. Frequent connection from Fort Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- -statinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the

Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

RAWALPINDI Ì 17,000 RANPURA

MALWA

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

SIRDHANA

TILAWA

SANTHIA TALMA

1981.

Dec. 18,000 44th

3 p.m. 10,000 201h Dec.

1932. 8,000 7th Jon. 10,000 22nd Jan.

Singapore, Penang & Caleuita.

B.L. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st

and 2nd class passengers.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).

NANKIN NELLORE TANDA

1932

7,000 2nd Jan. Manila, Kabaut, Brisbane, Sydney. | 7,000 Both Jan. f

Melbourne. 17,000 4th Mar.

Was Given No Food.

The crew, who declared that the ship was undermanned, wanted the stowaway taken as a sailor. The captain insisted, and on August 23

the Excelsior drew near a smell Greek laland too small to have a name and the stownway was order- ed to be put ashore.

Barefoot and brown-skinned, the stowaway, dressed only in a cotton shirt and trousers, was thrust into a boat. The crew muttered pro Lests. A sailor went below and

brought from the pantry a huge loaf

of brend which he gave to the Albanian. Thereupon Captain Wilson, with a curse, unatched the bread from the stowaway's hands and tossed it into the scu.

The small boat departed for the barren shore of the tiny island where a single hat betrayed the existence of human beings. The

The need for the continuance of The crew never flinched; the these: voluntary' charities, was per- officers hesitated.

haps greater at the present junc Finally Dining-Room. Steward ture than it had ever been, and Joe Ryan spoke:

"Captain, if you don't go back, there'll be four dend offleers on this ship. Leave this to me, and

Il arrest Dunchane."

Officers Retired.

The officers retired shamefacedly to their own quarters and five minutes later Ryan appeared with Duchanne's knife, saying: "He's under arrest."

Dr. Aughimbaugh dressed the wounds of the officer and the sailor. The five passengers were virtually in a panic.

When the Excelsior stopped at Messina, Cuplain Wilson failed to complain to the American consul, possibly because the ship was not in entire conformity with American mercantile marine law.

The Excelalor continued to Leg- hern, which it reached on Septem- ber 21. Dr. Aughinbaugh and the two women passengers with the means, immediately left the ship, reserving claims upon the Ameri- an Export Line. Two other pas- sengere, a man and a woman, re mained, because they had not enough money to purchase a second

passage home

PASSENGER LIST.

DEPARTURES.

James

stowaway would not really starve Per 8.s. Nanking, Dec. 8: but it might be months before a For Shanghai:Hon. the mainland, and the captain's de- Mrs. J. G. James, Mr. A. Skerst, passing boat would bring him to Mackay, Mr. H. C. Resker, Mr. and

eision to land him was equivalent the Misses M. M. and E. J. Clark, to weeks or months of banishment. Misa Course, Miss V. O. Down, Mr. D. C. Smith For, Moji:-Miss K. Boyddell, Mr. K. Makatnikoff. For Yokohama Mr. B. Rueben, Mr. and Mrs, J. G. Bennie and sons, Mr. J. Haesett.

Brought Loud Curses.

The captain's seizure of the bread brought loud curses from the

humanity was outraged.

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan Excelsior's crew, whose sense of and Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:

The Union 8.5. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New

Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, otc.

The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and

The P. & O. Branch Service of steamera to London via Suez.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

'SANTHIA

KARMALA

CHITRAL TALMA NELLORE KALYAN TAKADA

KASHMIR ⚫SOUDAN NALDERA TANDA

8,000 18th Dec. Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. 9,000 18th Da Shanghai, Moll, Kobo & Yokohama.

1931

1932.

15,000 1st Jan. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, 10,000

7,000

4th

2,000 7,000 16th

Oth

1st Jan. Amoy, Mojl, Kobe & Osaka.

Jan. Shai Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Y'hama. Jan. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, Jan. Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka, 9,000 15th Jan. Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama.

Kobe & Yokohama. Jan. Sal, Kobe Jan. Sihat, Moj, Kobe & Yokohama.

CARTHAGE 16,000 12th

*BURDWAN

RAWALPINDI 17.000 24th

6.808 26th 10,000 20th 2011

Yokohama. закопани 7.000 5th Feb. 16,099

Feb. i

Kobe & Yokohama. 6,500 21st Feb. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. RAJPUTANA 17.000 24th Feb. Shanghai, Kobe

Yokohama. 15,000. 11th Mar. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama. Mar. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 6,800 5th Apr. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 17,000 7th

Apr.

Shanghal, Kobe &

& Yokohama. 15,000 21st

Apr. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 6,500 28th Apr. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, 17,000 5th May

Shanghai,

bat, Kobe

& Yokohama. -16,000 19th May Shanghai, Moji. Kobo & Yokohama. KAISAR-I-HIND | 18,000 2nd Junc Shanghal, Moj, Kobe & Yokohama. .RAJPUTANA 17,000 16th June Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

*SOUDAN

6,800 28th.

Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,

CARRYI

CORFU

*SOMALI

RANPURA

CHITRAL

KANCHI

NALDERA

*BANGALORE

Jane

*Cargo only. † Calls Nagoja.

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All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. All Cabing are fitted with Electric Fand or Punka Louyre System.” “

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For further information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to:-

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Agents.

they were facing the future with great anxiety. Any general reduc. tion in public support of the well- known charitable institutions, which were doing such admirable! and absolutely essential national. service. would be nothing short of a calamity. It was gratifying to note that the receipts of this fund for the first nine months of the year from all Bources were very little short of those for the same! perlod last year,

Contributions received during the! inst three months of the working! year were crucial in determining whether the annual distribution made by the fund was to be above

01 below the normal, and

he

ernestly hoped that the supporters of the fund would maintain their generous assistance so that when the main, distribution took place in December the fund'a resources would be adequate to meet the un- precedented distress it would be called upon to relieve.

The reports of the Finance and Distribution Committees were pre- sented respectively by Sir Frederick Lewis and Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Mansell, and it was decided to dis- tribute a further sum of £37,450, from all funds in main grants to the marine charities in December, making a total of about £44,250 for the year.

The death of Admiral C. J. Bear- croft, a vice-president, was report ed, and Commodore C. A. Bartlett, C.B., was appointed a vice-president of the fund.

Captain Sir Arthur Clarke, de- puty chairman, reported that a donation of £1,060 had been receiv ed from Lloyd's Register of Ship- ping just before the meeting, which was a practical expression of ap proval of their work which it was hoped would act as an encourage-

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ment to others. It was gratifying that it also represented Rutland to find that the fund was still--a county in which no serious generously supported in these difl-' crime had occurred within the cult times.

A UNIQUE COUNTY.

memory of man. There were no Cases from it at the present assizes. Whether it was an ad- vantage to be a small county, he MtalJustice Mackinnonin did not know, but the fact was charging the Grand Jury at the that Rutland had less crime than Leicester Assizes, said he noticed any other county in England.

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