THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1934.
JUDGMENT
RESERVED IN
CAPT. BEER CASE
Contonation Question Dwelt On.
OBJECTION RAISED BY
MR. SHEIDDON
Judgment was reserved by His Lordship the Chief Justice. Mr. Justice A. D. A. Macgregor at the Supreme Court this morning in the ease in which Captain Laurence Nelson Best, former master of the 8. Kamo, made a claim for three months' wages on grounds of wrong- ful dismissal, from the For Hong S.S. Company. P. and O. Building, of which Mr. S. T. Williamson, is manager.
Mr. H. C. Macnamara, instructed i by Mr. G. K. Hall-Brutton, was for the plaintiff and Mr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed by Mr. W. A. Mackinlay Appeared for the defence,
The evidence of Mr. A. Ramsay, of Marine the
Superintendent 'Meara, S. T. Williamson and Com- pany, having completed, Mr.Sheldon) said that it was the submission of the defence that, in connection with the Oeksew Island incident, the s.8. Kamo, when in charge of Captain Beer, did go ashore on a rest or rock| off the Island.
Submerged Junk Theory. He referred to Captain Beer's evidence in which the latter said that the ship hit something when
Ecuador's President.
Doctor
THE CHINA MATE
FULTON BEING TOWED
TO JUNK BAY
Wishart Slightly Damaged.
CONSUL GENERAL'S THANKS
Pe Short Story.
A Madison Square Arabian Night
By Henry.
TO Carson Chalmers,, in” his ardand to listen and give him money.
Mr. Douglas Jenkin, the Consul apartment near the square. Then he sends as many as the money General of the United States In Phillips brought the evening will pay for to some lodging-house. Hong Kong, in an interview with a mail. Besides the routine corres-That is why they stand in rows; China Mail representative this morn-pondence there were two Items they get sent to bed in order as they ing, said that he would like to ex-bearing the same foreign_post- come.” press the appreciation of the Ameri- mark.
By the time dinner is served," said^ Chalmers, "have one of those men here. He will dine with me.”
"W-w-which-began. Phillips, stammering for the first time during his service.
·said
éan community to the British Navai One of the Incoming parcels con nuthorities and others who rendered tained a photograph of a womann, valuable assistance to the U.S.S. The other contained an interminable Fulton.
letter, over which Chalmers hung, He said that he was kept fully absorbed, for a long time The let informed throughout by the Comter was from another woman; and Choose one at random," modore's Office, the Radio Office, and it contained poisoned barbe, aveetly Chalmers. You might see that he the Water Police.
dipped in honey, and feathered with a reasonably sober and a certain Mr. Douglas Jenkin said that he fnnuendoes concerning the photo amount of reasonably sober and a certain amount of cleanliness wil would make an official call on the graphed woman.
Chalmers tore this letter into anot be held, against him: That is Commodore to-day and thank him
thousand bits and began to wear out; all.” personally.
It was an unusual thing for Car Mr. Jenkin added that a Naval his expensive rug by striding back Dr. Ibarra
and forth upon it. Thus an animalson Chalmers to play the Caliph. vessel from Manila would be des- from the jungle acts when it is But on that night he felt the in- patched to Hong Kong to take over
Joke Maria Velasco Ibarra who recently was elected President of Ecuador to fill the unexpired term of Don Juan Martinez Mera, who was im- peached last October. aroused a storm In the republic by forming at alliance with Colombia, which was said to have. endangered Ecuador's friendly re- lations with Peru.
MR. S. SIMPSON INJURED.
Nitric Acid Burns From Explosion.
the crew of the Fulton, who are caged, and thus a caged man acts efficacy of conventional autidotes to now quartered at the Naval Club, when he is housed in a jungle of melancholy. Something wanton and [egregious, something high-favoured the Sailors' and Soldiers' Home, By and by the restless mood was and Arabian, he must have to
overcome. The rug was not an enlighten his mood.
and on H. M. S. Cumberland.
doubt,
The Fulton is being towed into chanted one. For sixteen feet he Junk Bay by the British Naval tug, could travel along it; three thou-| the Poet Chaucer, with H. M. Sand miles was beyond its power to Whitshed standing up.
nid.
It is learned that H.M.S. Wishart
Phillips appeared. He never en- {was damaged above the water line]tered; he invariably appeared, like.
when she came alongside the well-oiled genie,
Fulton Catches Fire
"Will you dine here, sir, or out?"
only a quarter to half a mile from 3r. G. T. Bird, Chief Watchman Fulton, but it is understood that the Island. He also referred to the at the Taikou Dockyard, reported the damage is not considered ser-he asked. evidence of the wireless operator to the Police that Mr. Sydney|lous. and the S.0.8. message which Cap-[Simpson, a chemist of 4, Sul Wan tain Beer was said to have ordered, Road, received nitric acid burns
While on piracy patrol in Bias and refuted the statements that then the face and hend, caused by Bay at 8 p.m. last night the United ship could have struck a submerged an explosion of reid when he was States gunboat Fulton caught on junk or fishing atakes.
cleaning a glass stirring rod yes-fre, and, despite all efforts, was He said that soundings around the terday.
completely gutted. ship at the time showed that there Mr. Simpson was attended by was 70 feet of water, and he sub the Dockyard Company's Medical mitted that in such a cast fishing Offeer, and removed to his home stakes could be ruled out. As for His cardlitian is not serious. the submerged junk it rather sound-
ed, as his Lordship had remarked,
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TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "The Hazard Of The Spanish Horses," by G. B. Stern.
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charge a burglar wafted In the from the line of mendicant lodgers. shivering guest who had been halel
"Here," said Chalmers, "and in
On the half-hour Phillips' bad half an hour." He listened glumly finished his duties as slave of the to the January blasts making an
| lamp, The waiters from the rey- lian trombone of the empty street. taurant below had wisked aloft the "Wait," he said to the disappear-delectable dinner, The dining- ing genie. "As I came home across table, laid for two, glowed cheerily the end of the square I saw many in the glow of the pink-shaded can
dles. The officers and crew had to men standing there in rows. There was one mounted upon something, and
And now Phillips, as though. hé were taken abandon ship
Why do these men stand ushered talking. aboard the British destroyer.
cardinal—or - held in in rows, and why are they there?" H.M.S. Wishart. The China
"They are homelear men, sir," Navigation steamer, Tsinan, als said Phillips. "The man standing rescued some of the
on the box tries to get lodging for {crew,
them for the night. People come Hong Kong carly this morning spite the heavy sea, was described of us remarkable and daring seaman the Fulton, gave full credit to the ship.
Order To Abandon Ship from the Island, while Mr. Ellefsen, Among the passengers yesterday Commander of the Wishart, Com-
First news of the disaster was the Chief Officer of the 1.8. Hal by the Blue Funnel liner Patroclus mander Tod, for saving the lives!
The man received in Hong Kong by wireless Ching had stated in evidence that he were Dr. J. B. Ferreira da Silva, of many of his crew. had seen something in the nature Consul General for Portugal inner in which the British destroyer from H.M.S. Wishart, which was
(Continued on Page 7) of a reef at least he had seen some Shanghai, who, with his wife and "pproached the burning vessel, de- thing there, he added.
a smile to Mohamed's colin-Rus
Personal Pars.
pended batween Heaven and earth.”| Mrs. C. C. Wu, window of the Inte Evidence had been given by the Dr. C. C. Wu, and family returned Chief Officer (Mr. Brown) the Chief to the Colony lust evening by the s.s Engineer (Mr. Cairns) to the effect Tai Shan. that the ship was only 100-150 yards.
Message Madr And Nel Sent.
Mr. Sheldon further submitted
family, is en route to Lisbon.
Lieu-
The marriage is announced to that if Captain Beer had struck take place shortly between Komething which he did not con-tenant Philip Roger Merrick Wisden. sider necessary to report; then why of the 2nd Bn. East Lancashire did he make out the message, which Regiment, and Mias Madeleine
the 'ship was stranded, and referred Peninsula Hotel.
officers and
The rescued were brought back!
when Lieutant G. J. Phelan,
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
The M.V.
It is a common thing to call such men wrecks; if the comparison be
used here it is the specific one of
derelict cors to grief through fire. "Even yet some flickering combustion. Illuminated the drifting hulk. . - His | face and hands had been recently! washed-a rite insisted upon by Phillips as a memorial to the slaughtered conventions.co
In the candle-light he stood, a flav in the decorous fitting of the apart- ment. His face was a sickly white, covered almost to the eyes with a stubble the shade of a red Irish set- ter's coat. Phillips'a comb hád "Malayan Prince", At seven o'clock this morning, failed to control the pale brown hair, he later cancelled, to the effect that Valerie Honigsberg, residing at the from New York sailed from Los four armed men entered 180, Jaffa long matted and conformed to the Angeles 20th Ult, and is expected Road, Wanchal, stole money and contour of a constantly worn hat. here on Tuesday.
Jewellery and successfully made off. His eyes were full of a hopeless, tricky defiance' like that seen in a Only fourteen of the Cambridge- incident. "Don't worry I always a junior partner in the firm, of
The Second Annual General Meet-Cur's that is cornered by his tormen- sland by a man when he is down." Nielsen & Malcolm, (Shanghai), ar-shire prizes won by subscribers to ing of the Children's Playgroundstors. His shabby coat was button- The submission of the defence rived-in Hong Kong in the s.a. Trier the last Irish Sweepstake remain to Association will be held at the ed high, but a quarter-inch of was that the ship struck a rock to establishing a branch of their paid. A total of 2,760 prizes Public Works Department Board deeming collar showed above it. close to the island on the night of business in South China, with offices have been claimed mounting to Room next Monday, at 5.15, p.m. July. Although charts did not show this obstruction
to the remarks of the Chief Officer
to the Captain immediately after the
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Mr. R. E. L. Beardsworth, who is
the Admiralty in Canton.
£1,672,608 1s. Bd.
a
A Good advocate
-a really for
good case
The verdict
of connoisseurs
is always
in favour of
H.B BEER
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At Hong Kong Hotel On April 18.
On April 18, at 5.30 p.m. in the
CHINESE WOMAN
SENTENCED.
Character In The
Police Court.
His manner was singularly free from embarrassment when Chalmers rose Pleading guilty to the larceny of from his chair across the round] It was nevertheless considered un. Sir Elly Kadooris, K.B.E., and All the members of the Hong a door shutter, Chan Shuf, who dining-table.
"If you will oblige me," said the safe to go so near to the land, and Mr. Lawrence Kadoorie will be pas-Kong Chinese Choral Society are had a previous conviction, was
Chan Mut-kwal,” alias, Chas a mariner was not entitled to as-sengers by the Empress of Britain, looking forward to the big.concert sentenced to one month's imprison-hoet, "I shall be glad to have your
Grill Room of the Hong Kong Shoet-ying, a 20-year-old Chineso sume that there was a sale passage arriving on Saturday, 17th. Inst, in the Hong Kong University Hall ment by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the company at dinner."
"My name is Plumer," said the Hotel, and under the auspices of girl, was sentenced to thres at that point, he said.
They will be passing through on on Friday, March 23. This will be Central Magistracy: this morning highway guest, in harsh and aggres- the Right Reverand Father Braga, montas hard labour for loitering Question Of Conspiracy. Mr. Sheldon said that the only
An unknown Chinese was admit-eive tones, "If you're like me, you Superior of the Salesian Fathers with intent to commit a felony in thing which predjuiced the evidence
ted to the Government Civli Hospi-like to know the name of the party In China, will held a lecture in Des Voeux Road, by Mr. 8. Balfour, of the Chief Officer and Chief En-
Italian on The life and work of at the Central Magistracy this Three cases of small-pox, one im-tal yesterday, suffering from the you're dining with "
moj the misalonaries in China "AN gineer was the question of cons- Mr. Sheldon. also objected to the ported, were included in the list of effects of Immersion. The police was going to say
Invitations will be sent in due piracy. The only reason he could question of "contraband and drun-notifiable diseases recorded by the assume that he fell into the har Chalmers somewhat hastily think of was that they had heen karde" and said that such questions Medical Department during the 24 hour from the Yun On Wharf. He mine: Is Chalmers. Will you sit course by the thitalian Consul threatened to be reported by the should never have been put to the hours ended. yesterday. Other is still unconcious, Captain for the San To incident. witnesses
CENDS were meningitis (8), one
their way back to Shanghai after their first appearance before the several months in Europe.
"Contraband And Drunkards.”
public.
C] opposite 1999 birds!!
* General, but all those who are in, Plumer, of the rumed plumes, terested in the Italian language, While working cargo on board bant his knees for Phillips to slide as well as the missionary Tinhow coolls, Low the chair beneath him. He had an ment in China, may obtain " Min, fell into No. 3 hold and re- air of having art at attended boards at the Office of the Hong
interna], Injuries to which before. Phillip set out the an- Hote),
Mr. Sheldon also asked, that it In the case of the Ambarat Rock paratyphoid fever, and one enteric should be believed that Mr. William-[krounding, Mr. Sheldon said, the fever: son, or any other ship owner, would course was plotted so as to pass never make such a remark as," three miles from the rocks, but when When fire broke out at Pak Tin cely having something to say if the mas- the incident occurred the ship was Village, Shamshulpo, shortly after he succumbed at 4.45 p.m. yester, chovies and pres ter should log any of the officers" only one mile from the rocks11 o'clock last night, ten huts were day at the Kowloon Hospital.Good This was a plain, ridiculous, and an In the case of Ocksów Island Mri destroyed. Fire appliances were
Spree to be in cours obrious" untruth, be considered." Sheldon asked if it was not too much rushed to the outbreak, but the Wong Xik, the foreman yho wan my
Mr. Sheldon also referred to the for the owners to expect that the blaze had gained such a grip, that injured in the explosion at a cracker denial by Mr. Ramsay that Captain master should be on the bridge the huts were destroyed before the Beer had been told to dismiss the when approaching · such dangerou flames could be controlled, Chinese boatswain, » butz augmented waters. In this case, the Captais[e
that he was dismissed by Captain could not offer any proof of exhau- "Charged with the larceny Beer himself because he was a dan-ation, but was, at the time
Top eatt
of Chinese medicine: “C gerous witness against him?”
He submitted that Captain Beer had
Mr. Sheldon pointed out that the not take "suficient stope to see voluntary evidence by Mr-Ellia, the his ship was prope former officer of the 2ă. Katinka, in, Further he wAR" CATS connection with the Cambodia Point the facts of the
"Incident, was not challenged, Futput to him
ther Captain Bøer. Instruments)
in'having; Mr.BI
109, Pak Tal Street on Tuesday, died in the ospital, during the
barked "Plumer; "going
right, I'm
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