A British purser on the Runnymede Park, one of the three prison ships carrying the Exodus refugees to Germany, announced today that he is resigning as “a moral protest against the conditions under which the immigrants are being transported to Germany,” the Reuter correspondent aboard the vessel reports.
The purser, Peter Seamen, a Briton, said: “I am in no way qualified to criticize the British Government’s policy, but I intend to have no further part in this degrading treatment of homeless refugees. It most certainly reflects no credit on us.”
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