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Show TROUBLESOME "CRIMPERS. ' The Loudon "Standard' lTrrs the Necessity Neces-sity of Refofai in the 1'orts of the United States. LosdOX, April 16. Captain Donovan, of the Bri'ish ship Dumbarton Rock, at Dunkirk, Dun-kirk, from Portland, Oregon, has told for publication his experiences with the "crimpers" while at Astoria K vember 3rd. The Standard commenting upon the captain's cap-tain's story points out the urgent necessity of the government's inducing the United States to abolish "crimping" by the suppression sup-pression of desertion, which has always ceased when shipmasters are permitted to arr -t men who quit their ships without leave. The Standard adds that, the gangs of roughs and "crimps" which at present infest in-fest and disgrace the ports of the United States would be compelled to seek other pursuits if ;U. h permission were given captains cap-tains of vessels in American ports. |