“ Did you toll your wife where you were last night?” “ No. Where was J?” Six British firemen of the Bank Lino steamer Luceric (6,681 tons, registered at Glasgow) were sentenced at a British Consular Court in Hankow recently to terms of imprisonment ranging from four to 12 weeks on charges of insubordination and assault. The master testified that the prisoners were frequently drunk while on duty, that they had assaulted the chief engineer and cook, and had attempted to throw the chief steward overboard.
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Evening Star, Issue 22453, 25 September 1936, Page 13
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