The Archive · 1938

Chinese Crew Leave Japan-Bound Ship

London, Dee. 17

The Chinese crew of-a ship, at Wyvern-in-Tyne, yesterday left the vessel, which recently had been sold to the Japanese Government.

The crew departed when they found that the ship was going to Japan, with a cargo of scrap iron, to bbe broken up.

'An Indian' crew were signed on, but, according to the "Daily Herald," representatives of the China Cam~ paign Committee last night approach-fed the new crew with a telegram from the India League, appealing to them to leave the vessel—Reuter.

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