JAMAICAN STOWAWAYS
GIRL AND TWO BOYS IN PARTY ATTEMPT TO REACH ENGLAND FAILS PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad), Rec. 9 p.m. Dec. 6. Thirty stowaways, including one girl and two boys armed with sticks and razors, were subdued by the police using tear gas and batons when the British ship Almanzora arrived from Kingston (Jamaica), en route to England. The stowaways, all of whom are believed to be Jamaicans, were taken into custody on shore after a bitter fight. , , Fire broke out on board the snip after the stowaways were removed. It was extinguished by firemen and a naval detachment. The stowaways shouted: “We want work' when the police boarded the vessel to arrest them. „ . Later, the girl. Norma Coombs, ol Kingston, said: “We of Jamaica are seeing trouble. There is no work for many of us and we have to try to reach England- to find it.” Lloyd Walters, who. with his brothei Alphonso, are both aged under 12, was among the persons arrested, said he had been returned to Kingston from New York three weeks ago after a previous attempt to stowaway
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26638, 8 December 1947, Page 5
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