RACIAL BRAWLS DURING VOYAGE
PERTH, April 14. More than 50 migrants from thc Midille East fought in the steerage saloou of the Egyptian ship Misr the night before she reached Fremantlc. Passengers Said this was one of the many racial brawls which occurred during -the voyage. Other allegations were that a • uigrant, brandishing a table knife, ihreatened a steward, that andther uigrant was bitteii during a fight, that nost of the migrants travelling in ;hun conditious in the steerage had iiu knowledge of personal or communal hygiene, that some migrants used thc open deck as a toilet, that some women passengers had to shower on the deck.icliind thin canvas curtaiiis, and that me passenger was believed to be in ;ane. The farcs ranged from £175 t'oi iccommodatiou in six-berth cabins co il20 t'or bunks in Tween-decks dormitories. • • The iiiimigrants, praetically all oi vhom hnve relatives in Australia nclude Greeks, Palestinians, Italians uebanese, Poles, Yugoslavs, Hwiss Lgyptians, Germans, Kuiuanians (outli Africans, Austrians, Hungarians Gzech's * and Gypriots. The captain ii ui Austrian and the offieers are Egvp lians.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 April 1947, Page 7
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