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PASSING THROUGH.
Captain R. M. de Sala, master of the There was again considerable activity Chinese vessel Wòng Shek Kúng, appear in the harbour yesterday. There were ed before Lieut.-Comdr. G. F. Hale, six vessels lying alongside the Kow. R.N., at the Marine Court yesterday loon wharves, including the floating. morning in answer to charges of carry 'Varsity liner Ryndam, the Admiral ing passengers in excess of the number Oriental liner President Madison, the allowed, and also with making a false Messageries Maritime Chambord, and declaration to the Harbour Master. ***
others.
Mr. D. L. Strellett appearing for the defence said that his client pleaded guilty to the first charge and not guilty on the second count.
The harbour was also fairly full with vessels at buoys.
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The President Mädison arrived from Manila carly yesterday morning with 30 A Chiness clerk in the Clearance Office cabin passengers, of whom 18 disembark said that defendant went there to clear ed here. The liner brought tons of his papers on October 30th, and witness lenf tobacco and general cargo, and asked him if he had a passengers certi- mail for local discharge, and when abe Bente. He said no, but that he was en-sails this afternoon at five o'clock aba titled to carry 13 passengers. Witness will carry 578 tons of hemp, cigars and further stated that he had warned him general cargo from Manila for the North not to carry more than that number, and and Seattle. defendant was alleged to have replied "Oh, I know that very well.".
Cross-examining the witness, Mr. Strel lett asked if he had seen Capt. de Sala on any previous occasion. Yes, I have.
Mr. Strellett:-Do you remember the number of passengers he used to clear Witness: Formerly be used to clear 10. but on this occasion be cleared 12."
Mr. Strellett-Was this figure given you as the limit of passengers which he was entitled to carry, or did it represent the actual number of passengers he was going to carry i
The Mesageries Maritimes Chambord arrived from the North with mail from Hame-is-Siberia, and brought, in addition to general cargo, 133 passengers, of whom 40 were disembarking here. The Chambord sailed yesterday afternoon for Saigon, en route for Marseilles. Among the passengers for Hongkong, were Mr. and Mrs. Park, Mr. Quinaco, and Mr. Richard Warbrick, all of whom embarked at Shanghai.
Royal Passengers.
Also among the passengers for Saigon were members of the Siamese Royal Witness: asked him for his passen-Family, the party including Prince gers certificate and he said he was Dhani. Princess Sib Pan, and Princess allowed to carry 19...
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Mr. Strellett' said that was no answer to his question and pointed out to his Worship some discrepancies in witness's statement. His Worship remarked that
Dhani. They passed through the Colony some time ago in the course of their Oriental tour. Another passenger on this liner, for Saigon, was Sir. Eardley Gibson Craig.
he was not satisfied with witness's The Mishima Maru, arriving from evidence and that the second charge Jupan brought "2,500 tons of "general would be dismissed.
cargo, and carried 271 passengers, 17 being for Hong Kong. The liner sails for Australia this morning at eleven
The 1.5.
Preussen brought general cargo from Hamburg and Singapore, and among the passengers, for Hong Kong were Dr. Nagel, Mr. F. Petzschke, Mr. R. Harrison and Mr. K Ibsen.
Admitting the first charge, Mr. Strellett asked the Court to take the de- fendant's position into consideration. o'clock. Although technically he was the master of the vessel, in reality" he was only em- ployed as a pilot. His duties were to pilot the ship from port to port; and to attend to the customary procedure at the Harbour Office. He had no control over the ship. Defendant, was quite aware that he was only allowed to carry 12 passengers, and to carry out this regula tion, he had to trust to the honesty of the ship's" compradore, who was really the responsible party. Mr. Strellett cited a case tried at the Marine Court here in 1919 by Mr. Basil Taylor, who, when dealing with a similar incident on the Telemachus, held that the Compradore was the responsible party.
The P. & O. 1.8. Devanka also arrived
yesterday morning from the North and ails to-morrow. She brought 3 tons of cargo for local discharge, 200 tons for ward, and 23 passengers.
The President Taft is die to-morrow from the North with cargo, passengers and mail from U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai.
The outward Home mail this week end will be carried by the P. & 0. 5.1. His Worship "said that he could not Kärmele, and the mail closes on Satur- countenance a ship being run on such day at 10.30 a.m. lines. A monster of a ship wa.5 the As mentioned yesterday the P. & O. master, and he should demand his rights 5.5. Aldcedonia follows up the Ehiva, as the law was always behind him. Ibeing due here on Friday with the in- cannot admit any excuse that a master ward Home Mail. She has a full com- cannot have full control and is dictated plement of passengers, and those for to,
," said his Worship.
Hong Kong include the following:-Mr. C. H. Arnot, Mrs. G. F. Brearley, Mrs. A. H. Barlow, Mr. and Mr. L. G. Bird, Miss Bird, Miss A. M. P. Byrne, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Blake, Mr. and Mrs. A. Brooksband, Miss J. C. Bell, Mr. E. McDonald Bryden, Miss C. F. Clark, Mr. F. Cullen, Mrs. D. Cookes, Mr. A B. B. Clarke, Mr. W. H. B. Dent, Mrs. W. A Eustace, Mra G., M.
A ine of 85 was imposed, or three weeks imprisonment in default..
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MRS. ALEX SAMSON.
A WELL-KNOWN SHANGHAI LADY. Fitzmaurice, Mia V. Godson, Mrs. E. R Hooper, Miss E. Hooper, Dr. and Mrs. The death has occurred of Mrs. Alex G. M. Harston, Misses E. and B. Samson, at the Country Hospital, Shang-Harston, Mr. T. B. Hunter, Mr. N. A hai, from typhoid fever and attendant Kirton, Mrs. J. McLennan, Mr. G. complications. It leaves a deep mark on MacLeod, Mrs. J. H. MacLeod, Master the community in which she had been an active member for the past 35 years, says the N.-C. Daily News. Mrs. Samson had been identified for many years with the work of the United Services Association and B.W.A. as well as with a host of ebaritable and philanthropic works here in Shanghai.
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Twelve cards were taken out in the Bogey Pool competition played at Fan ling on November 20th-22nd,
J. H. Macleod, Master G. R. MacLoed, Mr. and Mrs. J. Massey, Mr. W. Mac- Leod, Mrs. M. C. Petterson, Mr. G. T. Fudgett, Rev. J. E. Rigg, Capt. A. J.
DEBT OF £38,000,000.- Scott, Mr. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. E. Thomson, Mrs. Turner, and Miss Turner.contributors to the Unemployment In- Employers and workpeople who pre surance Fund in England will have cause to regret the coal strike for a generation to come, says the Daily Mail, So enormous are the demands made an the fund for dole payments to those who have been thrown out of work in other trades by the action of the miners that the weekly contributions are hopelessly ing to official information money is be insuficient to meet the expenses. Accord- VOLUNTEERS. CHINESE RECREA ing borrowed from the Treasury at the
TION CLUB. rate of £500,000 a week.
IN PEKING.
FIVE MEN ARRESTED.
some tragedy which occurred in the early Particulars are to hand of the grue morning of November 4th at the home of General Cheng Pa Chi in Morrison Street, Peking
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H. U. Ireland, I down, was the winner.
CRICKET.
During the early part of the war. she left Shanghai to offer her services V.A.D. and sarved in the Queen Mary's Hospital at Roehampton and the Bishop of London's Hospital from 1916-1919. She was elected an associate member of her unit, London 154, in recognition of her services, and at the time of her death was on the reserve list in England for call in case of emergency.
In Shanghai she was Chairman of the Women's Branch of the United Services
The fund now owes the Treasury The Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Association, on the general committee of dered by a band of men who entered the coal strike its debt was 27,000,000, so tion Club on the latter's ground in an all General Cheng and his wife were mur £18,000,000. At the beginning of the Corps are playing the Chinese Recrea which she had been serving. The ar place while the household was asleep and that dole payments in the meantime have day match next Sunday, commencing at 11 rangements for the sale of poppies or first bound the servants hand and foot. absorbed all the contributions of in- am. sharp. Members of the team should ganized for Armistice. Day this year by Five arrests have been made and the sured people and employers and another be on the ground at 10.40 am at the the Association had been largely in her chief instigator of the crime is now stated £11,000,000 as well. hands before she was taken to the to be a man who was employed as a
latest hospital
Parliament has placed a limit of i For the last three years, Mrs. Hamson houseboy by General Cheng several years £30,000,000 on the borrowing capacity of teers:E. J. I. Mitchell (captain), H. The following will play for the Volun had been on the Executive Commitice of ago, but gave up his post on account, he the fund, so that unless the strike ende V. Parker, J. A. Summers, J. C. Lyal, the British Women's Asociation. She says, of the ill-treatment ho received at soon and there is a rapid return to work H. E. Stabdage, E. F. Lawrence, H. C. had served on the Entertainment Com the hands of urs Cheng
of people now drawing the dole, further mittee, the Social Service Board and was „According, to "accounts of the prelimi borrowing powers must be granted, by Burgess, J B. Hinton, S. Jer, E G. a member of the Gardening Section, of any police investigation published by the Parliament, or the rates of contribution Benton, and H. T. Baxton B.W.A.
Chinese papers and confirmed by the must be raised. Otherwise it will be in- Among her other interests must be police themselves this man has confessed possible to pay benefits, counted her work with the Youngcused that they should rob General to be repaid out of the contributions of that he proposed to the other four no All the money borrowed has ultimately Women's Christian Association, Cathedral Guild of Work, the Minister. Cheng's home Meeting at an eating the employers and workers. When pro- ing Children's League and the Shanghai house outside Chien Men on the night of sperity is restored and the number of Last night's weather report, forecast, Ladies Auxiliary Association.
November 3rd, they proceeded to the unemployed falls, this repayment of at and remarks, issued by the Royal Do Mrs Samson was the wife of Mr. Alex house at about one o'clock in the morn least £18,000,000 will take very many servatory, states Samson of Geddes & Co., Ltd., and ing and, after having stabbed General years to complete. Even if contributions The anti-cyclone over East China has besides her husband she is survived by Cheng and his wife, stole 8200 in cash are not actually increased for the pur weakened alightly, Fresh monsoon may a daughter, Mrs. E. Hamilton Holmes and a pistol. They stabbed and killed pose, it is certain that any hope of re- he expected along the S.E Coast of wife of the British Consul-General man servant, who was on the premises duction in them, which would have been China and over the N. China Ses. at Yokohama, and twỪ Bóng, Messre, but contented themselves with wounding; possible before, long but for the coal W. H. and A. H Leslie of Jardine, a maid servant in both legs since they strike has now been postponed in Local forecast: N. winds, moderate, Matheson & Co., Ltd.
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