CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925 — Page 48

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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No means of releasing bolts simultaneously is be opened. feasible in ships of the class concerned.

Furthermore owing to the grills the crews of these vocaèla would have the greatest difficulty in getting to the boats

In the event of an outbreak of fire or a collision themselves. and a serious lose of life occurring owing to passengers being

penned below, who would be held responsible, the Hongkong Government who framed the Regulations or the Owners and their Offloare who were compelled to carry them out?

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INDIAN CU EDS. There re «pproxim.tely 900 Indian Guards employed at a cost to the shipping companies of some $270,000 per annum,

nor officers whose Neither owners whose property is at stake, lives are at stake have the slightest confidence in them. training is inadequate and their discipline is bud and their bud discipline affects the discipline of the other members of the orev. These gwirde although nomin lly on the ship's articles are paid through the Police and consider themselves as police

In an and resent receiving orders from the ship's officers.

showing the bad appendix hereto a number of cases is quoted, discipline und inefficiency of the Guards.

This list of cases is

by no means exhaustive but merely illustrative of the mutter

raised in this paragraph.

It is the opinion of both the owners and the officers (us it is the generally accepted view all the world over) tnut tre Master of a vessel should have complete control over all membere of his crew at all timer when the vessel is at sea, and it is felt strongly that the police element should be entirely eliminated and that any begulations or assistance received by a ahip in the British Mercantile Marine should come from the Navy and in oertuin matters from the Harbour Lepartment and not from the

Police.

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