'The mutiny on the 14,000-ton Commonwealth liner, Jervis Bay, is regarded as lending' significance to the speech recently made by the well-known Australian labour. leader, "Jock" Garden, for which he was arrested under the States Crimes Act. Garden is alleged to have said: "If seab cooks man vessels, our own tactics may change. We may supply union men even though seabs are on board. The Sofia, Aleppo have to go to the railings ocean sionally. They may lose thei balance, in which ense -the sea i deep and dead men tell no tables.'
It is considered possible that the crew either joined the stowaways in resisting the officers or refused to'guard the stowaways.
The local agents of the owner have received no news from' the Tiner, but it is known that when the ship called at Melbourne on the present trip the crew threatened to strike on arrival at Hobart unless they were repatriated to Australia on a passenger steamer.—Reuter.
London, June 21. The Com wealth Line hag re-messages had been apparently sent. as a precautionary. measure when Captain Daniels: was-not sure how the situation' would develop, June 22, 'The Admiralty announces that. H. M, oil-auxiliary Slavol, with a boarding party of 20 marines under Lieutenant Whitfield from the cruiser Enterprise, left Trincomalee, in Ceylon, at seven o'clock yesterday' evening to intercept the liner Jervis The Admiralty announces that H. M, 8. Enterprise yesterday evening received the following message from the Jervis Bay: "Situation well in hand. Constant guard."
The cruiser Suffolk, which is on its way to join-the China Squadron, is now between Aden and Colombo and has been ordered to increase its speed and overtake and assist the Jervis Bay—Reuter,
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