'The Maritime Conference to-day, by 65 votes to 16, adopted the Re: port of the Committee on the protection of seamen in case of sickness, including the treatment of seamen' injured on board ship and providing for the liability of shipowners towards sick or injured seamen, ete. All Governments will be con: sulted on this report, The Conference, by 48 votes to 17, upheld the right of sick or me Jured seamen to reparation, which the shipowners proposed to suppress, and adopted by 72 to 17 the report of sickness insurance, which consequently will be included in the agenda of the next Conference.
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