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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1933.

Kowloon Supplement MORE LIGHT ON THE JUNK

HONG KONG, APRIL 6, 1933.

LEISURE

i

TRAGEDY

INQUEST ON GIRL KILLED BY GUNFIRETM

Further details concerning the A GREAT deal of the happiness of the tragic incident which occurred out human race is enjoyed during non-side Lyceman Pass on Saturday, working hours; yet few things are

when the Kwan. Lui, a Chinese more open to abuse than leisure. Maritime Customs launch, is said to To the man of independent means

bave fired two shots at a junk, were leisure may be a boon enabling him disclosed at the inquest hold by Mr. to acquire knowledge or devote his Butters at the Kowloon Magistraey talents to discoveries and creations

yesterday afternoon, on Ng Koo, n of banafit to society. On the other

three-year old girl, who was killed hand, if he has no ambition and nohy a fragment of one of the shells. curiosity, he may waste his life by

the meandering among

very men

social A Jury was empanelled, consist

ing of Messrs. C. C. Champkin (Foreman), D. Clarke and E. Cor. Mr. J. A. Fraser appeared for the Grown and the Chinese Maritime Customs were represented by Mr. A. Mackinley, of Measts. W.

pleasures, racing, travelling and hunting, until he becomes bored with leisure and has to work ex. reedingly hard to keep himself amus ed. The enforced leisure of the unemployed is ironical, because the who once envied the wealthy their freedom from labour TLOW complain that the dreadful thing about being out-of-work is the fact that they do not know how to pass the time.

Of late years social workers in London and New York have devised schemes by which the unemployed shall be freed from

of the

influence demoralising leisure. They are encouraged to learn trades, arts and crafts, lan guages and even gymnastics, so that instead of frotting in arm chairs, in their homes they are given the op- portunity to maintain alert minds and bodies and, by increasing their knowledge of practical affairs, to improve their chances of obtaining employment.

Doacons.

Injuries Described.

The first witness to be called was Dr. J. E. Markio, who testified to having examined the body of Ng Koo at the Kowloon mortuary on April 1, where it was identified by the father am the Police. The face and forehead of deceased showed extensive wounds, whilst the eyes, note and the right side of the fore- head were completely blown away. The base of the skull was fractured aid the fore part of the brain had been incerated, The principal cause of death, which was instantaneous, was the fracture of the skull and laceration..

Arthur Gunnell Cooke, a board-

and the one in the partition about one and a half inches in diameter. In the cabin on the port side there was a small hole in the side of the ship about one, inch in diameter.

The next witness to be called was the master of the junk, Ng Wing Lau, who stated that the vessel WUS }

registered in Hong Kong on March 10 1909, as a trading junk, Prior to registration he had sailed in Siamese waters, but lately he traded between Hong Kong and Saikung, in the New Territories. He had only been in Hong Kong waters since March 9 and wea not very familiar with the local coust.

Opened Fire.

On March 11 the junk was lying rudder. The partition showed a cargo of sugar consigned to Sai kung; it consisted of 500 bags. He cleared from Hong Kong on March 30 and the following day set sail at G 1.m. for Saikung. His course took him through Lyeemun Pass through which he was passing at about 7 a.m., when he sighted a steamer near Chung Kwan O Bay. It was also going through Lyeemun Pass, and was bearing down on them. At the time he was steering in a northerly direction and veered lightly off his course. to avoid the land. The steamer overtook him and a man on the bridge waved to him with his hand, motioning him to alter his course. The man also shouted something, but, owing to the high wind he could not hear what he said. Witness then altered his direction back to a northerly course and steered for Chung Kwan- O Bay. He did not recognise the steamer nor did he notice whether Lance-Sergeant May, the next the man who signalled to him was a Chinese or a European.. He re- witness, deposed that at 11 amon April 1, he was on duty on Police fused to alter his course again, launch. No. 14 and boarded junk however, and just then the steamer No. T. 2018 in Yaureati typhoon opened fire from its three-pounder shelter. He was directed by the gun, injuring two people on board junk's boat to the place where the the junk. The shell entered the body of a female child was lying etern, and one of the passengers, dead. It was on the starboard side, Ng Koo, his niece, was instantly Her, mother, who. W65 aft: There were wounds in the killed. shoulder and the head, including a witness sister-in-law, was also in- large gash in the former. The body jured. He did not ree any guns on was removed to the Kowloon Mor-the steamer. tuary, and the following day be identified it in the presence of Dr. Mackle and Sub-Inspector-Rozeskwy

waters

At 1.30 pm on the same day he made a search of the junk with Sergeant Mackay and found some fragments of shell on board. The step of the boat contained a hole which had probably been caused by

'',

In Kowloon the unemploymenting, officer, produced a chart of arablem happily concerns us but Hong Kong showing the limits of slightly, for the prosperity of the British territory and indicated to Colony is still sufficiently secure to the Coroner where the encounter assure the absorption of nearly all took place. Witness stated that be

Yet we have an available labour. unemployment problem of a differ- was the Master of the launch Kau ent kind which, though not so grave Sing and was familiar with local or vital a question as the other, nevertheless is important enough to command attention. We refer to the scores of wives of Europeans in Kowloon who have had leisure thrust upon them and find it par- ticularly irksome. Excluding those women who left surroundings of wealth and refinament behind them when they came out East, the majority of women in this Colony belong to the middle classes and came from homes which were run on the economical lines demanded by limited incomes. If they did not do all the housework and the cook ing themselves, they seldom could afford to kemp more than one sor- rant, and consequently, if they look- od after their homes at all properly, their domestic duties occupied most of the day and gave them little opportunity to be idle. Out East. Bowever, conditions are reversed. The European woman is not expect a projectile. ed to perform the alightest menial

Fragments of Shell, task, not even to dust the mantle piece or to bake a cake." She has an

Lance-Sergeant Mackay army of servants-beys, coolies and that he went to the Government amaha to do her slightest bidding, Shipwdy at Yaumati on April 1, ac and in consequence she is idle for companied by Sub-Inspector Rezes the better part of the day. Bridge,kwy, and bearded junk No. 120158, golf, shopping and gossip are not which they searched. On the port substantial substitutes for work, side of the vessel he found a the time as he was busy attending and unless the wife obtains a job of piece of brass with a screw thread to the wounded. Bome kind she is liable to contract which wie embedded in a wooden

They reached Hong Kong shortly that sad disease of boredom and dis-partition. In the aft hold amid- content which has been known to ships he found the hose of a shell after 10 &m, and reported the develop in unwelcome directions embedded in a hag of sugar. In affair. Under cross-examination by Her plight has been realised by the partition between the starboard Mr. Fraser, witnces said that there one Royal hunting expedition to one organisation, the Women's inbin and the aft cabin be Mufid was no fog at the time; it was por- that part of Africa.

Section of the Y.M.C.A.. Kowloon, another fragment of shell embedded fectly clear, though windy. There The Duke has brought back with however, and a series of instruction in the woodwork. He took all the were several fishing boats in the 4 courses in sewing, languages, nieces to the Water Police Station. vicinity when the, steamer opened

fire of them. London March 14.-The Duke of him numerous mementoes of leather work, arts and crafts and

Viewed from the inside, the stern

The father of the deceased was welke tweż monint tous at the least first-aid has been inaugurated, and Gloucener when he sprang out of the train interesting of which will be the meeting with Krallying chlorof the junks revealed a mall hole

The eagerness with which married | behind the aft cabin, near the about to be called when the Labaner The partition showed suggested that the members of the at Victoria on Saturday on his "shots" of animal life in ita no-

women have responded to, these rudder. return from his shooting trip in tural state, which he took with courses is conclusive proof that similar hole. The holes had jagged Jury should go an inspect the junk the Southern Sudan. With him, his cibe-camera. These pictures, some constructive activity was neces-edges and looked as though they in Taumati typhoon shelter. The when shown to the King and Queen, sary to dispel the tedium of enforced had been newly made by a projectile inquiet was accordingly adjourned un- kuch as a shell, That in the stern until Turmlay next, Aprih 11, st 2.15- was his equerry, Capt. E. W will bring the Duke's adventures leisure to which they were

accustomed.

ww about three inches in diameter. p.m. Brook, who has arranged more than vividly, before them.

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Fire Not Returned, Witness added that he himself carried two cannons on his junk 100 which he held a license. The shot hot and 50 pounds of powder, for consisted of old nails and bolts. They did not use their cannons or return the fire in any way, mediately after the shot had been fired they stood by and decided to return at ence to Hong Kong and report the incident to the owner.. The steamer followed them for some distance and fired another shot. This entered the junk amidships but injured no one. It was fred about fifteen minutes after the first shot, but he could not be certain of

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