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Show I1CI5B1Y TREATED DN SUPS Seamen Taken to Europe on British Ships and Turned Adrift. By Correspondence of Associated Press. LONDON. Feb. 22. Many Americans have been induced to ship on British steamers as horseienders with promises of good pay and a return ticket to America, only to be turned adrift penniless In England Eng-land or Franco. b'uh vessels run from American ports to England and France with mounts for the allies. Tho men are assured they will be paid from ?lo to $35 for their, work and then supplied with a return ticket or an opportunity to work their way back on another steamer. t'pon arriving they often fall to get the money promised and are frequently turned loose to shift for themselves. Sometimes they are given $2.50 and an order for return re-turn on a ship sailing a month hence. Obviously Ob-viously the man cannot wait and often he offers' to work his way home for nothing. These unfortunate men have been appealing ap-pealing for help to American officials in London. Since November 1 more than 100 have made known their distress. The American relief committee can help only Americans Impoverished by the war. It cannot aid men who have come over since the war started. For years the mistreatment of American seamen coming to Europe on foreign vessels ves-sels has been the subject of much complaint, com-plaint, but since the opening of the war conditions have become much worse. There are evidences of a general understanding under-standing between ship officers and shipping ship-ping agents to fleece unsuspecting and inexperienced in-experienced men. |