ORIENT STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY (STEAMSHIP "ORMONDE"). (Hansard, 19 March 1918)

§ 31. Mr. ANDERSON

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Shipping Controller whether, during the stay in the port of Bombay of the steamship "Ormonde," of the Orient Steam Navigation Company, four of the stokehold department were alleged to have attacked the chief officer of the vessel, and, in consequence, were arrested and lodged in gaol; whether, on the following day, forty-seven other members of the crew were also arrested and charged with mutiny and have received sentences varying from six months to three years; whether twenty of the petty officers of the engine-room department were discharged from the vessel at the same time, and have returned to Glasgow; whether he is aware that many members of the crew charged with mutiny were in no way implicated and were unaware of what had occurred, and, seeing that these men are now in gaol, whether anything is being done for their wives and children who are suffering hardship, in consequence of the stoppage of payment and allowances; whether he is aware that the twenty men who have returned to Glasgow, who were not even charged with being implicated in the mutiny, have not received the wages due to them; and whether a thorough investigation will be made into the facts of the case, with a view to the release of such of these men as were innocent, some of whom had been torpedoed frequently before joining the steamship "Ormonde"?