CO129-544-16 Request for Board of Trade prohibition on engagements of marine officers without repatriation clause 15-8-1933 - 12-12-1933 — Page 5

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.

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