Asked whether their attitude had undergone any modification or alter. ation since the strike commenced, they stated that no alteration whatever had taken place and that the company's attitude was exactly as had been made public before.
We understand from a private and reliable source that a fairly heavy: typhoon struck Hongkong on Sunday, and that none of the China Navigation Co's 16 ships which are tied up there came to any harm.
We have been asked to state, in connexion with our remarks yesterday concerning the certificates of competency as engine-room. fitters which were issued to seven Chinese members of the China Navigation Co's staff, that the certificates in question were given by a_member of the Indo-China S. N, Ca' staff a private individual, and that the LIC-S.N. Ca, was in no way concerned with "the issue of the certificates.
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