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THE CRIMINAL
SESSIONS
Eight Cases On":
Calendar
Altogether eight cases, including one of murder, one of armed robbery and two-
concerning counterfelt coins, are down to be tried at this month's Criminal Sessions which commences Monday, October 21. Tha cases
are;
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THE "STRATHMORE"
A Passenger's Impressions
A passenger who made the run aperitif and a slight pause have a round to London in the new P. & look at the menu atid then "Q. luxury liner ** Strathmore " ¦ enjoy a meal.
after the speed trials on the Clyde offers an interesting account of the trip.
This is no need for me to tell, he writes, of the triumphant passing of the speed and other trials of the
"Strathmore." because this has already been fully reported. Fun Kam-chol, Ho Wah, Ho But I am sure that future passen- Yau, Pun Tak and Lau Cheung gers who may give little heed to charged with the murder of a man
whether the ship made a top speed named Au Wan-fal at Chukowano 22 or 22.100 knots will be very V'Lage, Lantau Island, on Sep- much concerned to know what tember 2 last year.
sort of behaviour they may expect Ip Kim-wan. 43, charged with of the liner when she is called on uttering a forged promissory note. ¡ to encounter à bout of "nasty wep- Yip Sau charged with unlawful ther. On the run round to Lon- possession of arms and ammunt-don-and especially the first part, tion.
to Land's End-the "Strathmore " (and her passengers had every; opportunity of trying out their respective sea-going qualities.
Chan Cao, aged 25. charged with mporting counterfeit coins and with being in possession of counteffo Hong Kong five-cent pieces.
Lau Xan
charged with being
In possess on of counterfeit coins and importing same
We had full tables in the saloon that night, and a packed house at the cinema show in the evening. Then, after a pleasant chatty hour or two of smokes and drinks we turned down to bed again.
In the morning I woke to drink the cup of tèp the steward brought, slept on another hour, got up and glanced through the port-hole to see wind-inshed sens and grey sky, and did not know for the next hour that we were comfortably anchored in the estuary of Lon- don River waiting for the tide to turn and take us up to Tilbury.
"BEAUFORT SCALE"
At lunch, the Commander made a little speech, told us that we had come through rather a bad gale and that in all his life-time's ex- It was already 'blowing up into a pertence of ships he had never hard gale when the ship steamed known one stand up so well and down the Clyde, and as wind and comfortably to bad weather, He sea were dead ahead, we have a quoted the logged figures of the fair sample of what the ship couldBeaufort Scale" force of wind we Leung Tng-ka and Shum Ngan do in the way of "pitching. She had fought, and other detalls charged with robbery by two or didn't do a thing, or so little in more at No. 11 Caine Road.
that line that most of the passen Kwong Cheung and Yeung Chu gers sat round comfortably smok charged with breach of the De-ing, sipping drinks. playing cards portation Ordinance.
or chatting in complete oblivion of anything nasty in the way of wea. ther coming up.
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It is understood that the case against Tang Luk-pak for the alleged murder of Tang Yan-yuk It was only the venturesome near the New Territories has been ones who emerged from the cosy dropped as the Attorney-General | snugness of indoors to indulge found there was no direct evid- in "a breath of fresh air" round. ence. The accused was committ- the promenade deck or up on the ed for trial by Mr. T., Megarry, boat deck who guessed what was District Officer North
happening. The wind was blowing 50 or 60 m.ph, and the ship was steaming into it at about 20, so that the 'breath of air" was rak-
which conveyed little of under- standing to most of the passen- gurs. What did impress us all however was the fact that in spite of the had weather, we come alongside the landing stage at 4. p.m. that day instead of about the 4 a.m. next morning we had been due.
were to
Actually we only realised what we had come through so comfort- ably when we landed at Tilbury and read the newspaper posters and headlines of "Gale-Swept shores." "Storm-Lashed Coast." Channel Steamers' Stopped." s.o.s. from off Ireland," "Gale's
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to 80 mile force. It needed bota Some of us are still bragging
hands hanging for dear life to the that through all that "Gale rall to keep one's feet at all. Havoc" and "Storm Lashing" we
All the passengers had turned
didn't miss a meal or a minute's in comfortably and were soundly sleep. That, when you think of it is no small compliment to the sea- began to run South with an in- going and gale-resisting qualities creasing wind and gea, abeam. of the good P. & O. ship "Strath- Through the night the was mak- | more." trig round about 21 knots in spite of wind and sep
Success Of Malayan asleep before the ship swung and
Competitors
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PERCEPTIBLE ROLL
Leung Mu aged 21., a house servant, was on Saturday senten-
Shanghai, Oct. 12. Competitors. from Malaya, both in the men's and women's events. carried off the greater part of the honours In the National Athletic slow, so easy and steady that it/ced to three months' hard labour
Games to-day.
Java beat the Hong Kong tennis players Tsui ana Ho in the second round of the men's doubles, while Hong Kong gained an early success over Honan in volleyban.
The following were Saturday's
results:-
In the finals of the men's broad jump, S. A. Yeh (Malaya) took frst place with 6.76 metres, while C, W. Wang and C. K Chang (Shang- hai),came second and third.
In the morning there were perceptible roll on, but it was so
was only noticed if you looked out through portholes and windows and saw the rall heaving gently up and down against the background of grey sea in a heavy swell.
This continued all morning, with
wind and sex steadily increasing and the ship driving on through the gale. At the points, where we came closer inshore, and especially as we neared Land's End and ran into the full sweep of the open Atlantic's rollers, we could see the waves smashing on the rocks and A new national record was estab- leaping in fountains of boiling ished in the men's 800 metres race spray: and to seaward the proces by L. R. Chia (Shanghai) whose sion of racing waves looked majes time was 2 minutes 31 seconds. tic, awe-inspiring or qualm-creat- In the women's discus throw, Ying or according to how you felt
New Records
T. Chen (Shanghai) reached 30,055 nietres for a new national record.
During the heats for the wo men's 80 metres low hurdles. F. H Hsu and H. H. Tsao (Malaya) qualified for the nnals.
In the men's 200 metres spriat. c C. Fu and H. W. Hsu (Malaya quailfled for the semi-finals.
about it.
Ket, so easy was the motion of the ship that I am sure few of the landsmen aboard realised how realy bad a sea we were running through. Even during the morn- tng up to lunch time, a string of press men made their way down the series of perpendicular ladders WOMEN'S SUCCESSES
into the engine room and were Malayan Chinese women secured shown.round, in a heat and seent in outstanding success in the 100 of fried oil that is not to be re- metres sprint when four com- commended in the sea-squeamish: petitors, F. Y. Hsu, Y. C. Teng. C. Chen and K. C. Chen entered the final.
G. C. LI. T. H. Lin and M. H Yang (Malaya) qualified for the Binal of the
110 metres high hurdles.
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and did it all without palpable suffering or discomfort.
FULL TABLES
We turned the next corner round Land's End just about lunch time, and with wind and sea'now almost
In the first round of the wo-astern, the slight rolling smoothed, men's tennis doubles S. L. Lu and out and the dining saloon filled up N L. Hsieh (Malaya) beat C. H. to about it's normal full comple Chen and L U. Cho (Fuklen) 6-0, ment
8-0.
The dining saloon of the Strath- In the other first round tie in more. I may explain, is somewhere the women's doubles, K. Y. Yuen down in the "bargain basement". and W. P. Yang (Kwangtung) or lower of the ship's decks. beat T. C. Tuan and S. Y. Wu These, counting down from the (Hupeh) by 6-3, 6-1
boat deck, are named, AB.C.D. In the men's doubles B. 8. Lun etc., and the dining saloon and K. Y. Yuan' Malaya) beat Cwell down into this alphabet and Y. Ling and 8. K L (Hunan) 6-0, the ships interior. G-1.
Malaya beat Chinghal by 90 points to 20 in the men's basket
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I had rather wondered why one had to run down so many fights of "Stars" or descend fast so many decka.in the lifts to reach' Hong Kong Lose
funch or dinner; but after a few Java secured a meritorious vic-meals there I understood. That tory in the second round of the saloon 7 should think is the most men's Doubles when Kho Sin Kle, free from any suggestion of move- the China National holder. and ment or even vibration to be found Kho Bik Wal beat Ho Ka Lau and in the whole ship. If any future, Trul Wal Put. of Hong Kong by hassenger In the Strathmore 6-1, 7-5.
when she is running through a hard gale feels to put it mildly disinclined for food, I'd advise him or her to take the life down to the dining baloon, and after an
In the first round of the men's volleyball Hong Kong beat Horian by 3 points to nil Louter
by Mr. Q.AA. Macfadyen ut the Central Police Court for the theft bf one pair of go'd cuff-inks tw bracelet and two wrist-watches, to pairs of jades ones, one gold
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