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7.1.18[19]
Orders this day to be ready for departure on the 9th of January for Batoum, Russia via Constantinople.
8.1.18[19]
Loading Troop rations & stores, also taking in 200 Army transport waggons & ammunition for Russia. We are ordered to prepare for 200 officers, 30 Sisters & 20 doctors, 1800 troops to be embarked tomorrow. Greek labor is sent off to work the lighters. They are of a very inferior class of labor & pracically worthless in a private enterprise, slow thoughtless & having no tact & of a very inferior class of humanity.
9.1.19
Still loading stores ammunitions & Hospital requirements for troops. This day the Shell transport oil tank Cyrena having a Chinese crew mutinied whilst at anchor at Salonika within 300 yards of the Indarra. 40 Chinamen badly mauled the Captain, Chief Engineer, Chief Officer & 2nd officer. The Captain was badly wounded a Chair having torn a pound of flesh off his arm & the officer having used revolver freely shot & killed 4 Chows & wounded several others & accidently shot the Captain flesh wound. The Captain took a boat & 2 white gunners pulled him ashore. The Chinamen 35 of them lowered one of the lifeboats & left the ship for ashore. It being very foggy the 2nd officer saw a boat close coming towards the ship which he took to be their lifeboat coming back full of Chinamen. So he fired a shot at them with his revolver & found he had fired & killed a French Engineer Commander which was in a boat pulling off to a French vessel. The Chows got ashore & went up to the British Consul