The Nevada

HUNT, Circuit Judge.

The appellants seek to establish a lien on a ship formerly known as the Rogday, and to recover for wages for one month after date of discharge. They allege that they shipped on December 15, 1919, under a written contract, with the Russian government through the Division of Supplies to the Russian Embassy at Washington, D. C.; that under the contract appellants agreed to serve as seamen on the ship, then a Russian naval transport, on a voyage from New York to Vladivostok and return to the United States. By the contract each agreed to do the work assigned to him to the best…