I find. upon further investigation. that the Pacific Mail is not the only line. I find that the German and the French lines are doing the same thing. and for a good and sufficient reason. I will read a quotation from the contract of the German Government with the North German Lloyd Line: Asiatics shall not be employed in the crew on the Australian main line. and on the Chinese and Japanese main lines they may be employed only in the engine and fire rooms in so far as the employment of Europeans is impracticable for sanitary reasons. The French Chamber. only in May. 1892. took up this same question. The article is long. and I will not read the whole of it. but they found themselves. under their law of long standing. requiring that twothirds of the crew should be French.
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