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Godown Company's godowns at Kowloon, where delivery may be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
Options! Cargo will not be landed here, unless Notice has been given 49 hours prior to Vessel's arrival, but carries on from port to port the final port of call to which the option extends.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining findelivered after the 10th May, 1937, will be subject to Rent
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on 8th May, 1937, at 10 am, by our Surveyor, Mesara, Goddard & Douglas,
To comply with the General Bonded Warehouse Regulations consignees must have a Revenue Ofhear in attendance when damaged dutiable goods are examined.
All Claims must reach us before the 2nd June, 1937, or they will not be recognized.
No Insurance will be affected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
JEBSEN & CO., Agents, Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1937, |5237
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BRINGING CARGO From MARSEILLES, via Saigos, etc. ARRIVED HONG, KONG on MON- DAY, THE 3RDAY, 1937."
TONSIGNEES are hereby informed that their goods with the exception of Opina, Treasure and Valuables sic teing landed and stored into the Go- downs of Hong Kong Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained immediately after landing.
All claims must be sent in to me on or before the 12th May, 1937, or they will not be recognized,
Damaged Packages will be examined by the Company's Surveyor, Masera Goddard & Dongles in the presence of the Consignees at 10.00 a.m. cn Satur- day, the 8th May, 1937.
Consignees must have a Revenue Officer in attendence when any datiable goods are examined by the Company's Surveyors
No Fire insurance will be effected by us in any case, whatever.
R. OEL.
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Hong Kong, 3rd May, 1937. [6241
Reporter Settles
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1937.
CASTINGS FOR LIVED BEYOND STRANGLED GIRL
NO. 552
Biggest Ship In The Making
PROGRESS TO PARKHEAD
HIS MEANS
Govt. House Servant A Heroin Addict
STOLE MONEY FROM
CAPT. CRAGG
CLUES
Man's Statement To Police
Scotland Yard detectives who of are investigating the death Ruby Keen, aged 23, who was found strangled in a lane near her home have received important in- formation
last concerning her hours, writes a correspondent in the "Dally, Telegraph."
Other possibile clues are a foot- print in the sandy surface of the the print of a knee lane, and covered with cloth of a peculiar pattern.
A visit to the works of Messra.
Tso Kee, allas Tao Ÿul Ting, William Beardniore and Co. at aged, 30, appeared before Mr. H. Parkhead Furge, Glasgow guve an Keen at the Central Magistracy opportunity of seeing in the course yesterday for stealing £20 from of manufacture the hull castings Captain W. J. R. Cragg. former for the Cunard White Star liner AD.C. to His Excellency the. Ofcer No. 552, which is now building at Administering the Government, Messrs. John Brown and Co.'s yard who left the Colony on Friday. at Clydebank, where her sister-Defendant pleaded guilty. Mr. H. Both have been photographed ship the Queen Mary, was bullt, J. Cruttwell appeared on behalf of by the police, and a plaster cast writes A correspondent in the Captain Cragg.
has been made of the footprint. **Times."
Detective-Sergeant N. B. Fraser
which was from a large boot, The steel castings for
about. "Misa The the new stated that before his departure
information ship are of unusual size and con- Captain Cragg bought £50 from Keen's movements was given by sist of the massive stern frame, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Mr. Leslie Stone, 24, a labourer, in ave pleccs, having # total Banking Corporation which conving in a village two miles from weight of 180 tons: the outer pro- sisted of three £10 notes and four Leighton Buzzard. He told Chie! peller shaft brackets, port and £5.notes. He placed the notes in Inspectar Barker, of Scotland Yard, starboard, in two pieces, weighing wallet which he left on the top who is in charge of the inquiries, that he met Miss Keen in a public- 160 tons when erected; the inner of a table in Government House shaft brackets, port' and starboard, about 4 pm on Thursday. On which will weigh 100 tons when examining his wallet next morning erected; the rudder, in two pieces. Captain Cragg found a £10 note weighing when completed 120 and two. £5 notes were missing.
and. 12ft. wide: outer shaft brackets, 74ft. Youg. 13ft. broad. and 16ft In depth: inner shaft
brackets, 45ft. long. 13ft broad, and 15ft. deep; rudder, 23ft. broad, 39ft. high, and 6ft. 6in. wide; and the stem, as stated, 125ft.
In height.
He communicated with the Police who made Inquiries as a result of
He left her
house in Leighton Buzzard be- tween 8 and 9 p.m. shortly after 10 p.m. about 150 yards from her home th Planta-
̈tion-road.
"HAPPY ON SUNDAY NIGHT" Mr. Stone sald to me: "I haä known Ruby since 1931, but I had only been out with her about three
times.
"I met her accidentally on Sun-
day night in a public-house in Leighton Buzzard. I do not re- member the exact time, but it was between 8 and 9. We had a drink together, and then went on to an- other public-house. We had one
tons; and the stem of the vessel, measuring 125ft. In height, weigh-| ing 60 tons, and to be built up in which the defendant, who was the Ave sections.
personal servant to Captain Crags The lineal dimensions of these was detained. Tso admitted stealing five members will be as follows: and took the Police to a room in Stern frame, 102. long. 49ft, high, Government House where the notes were found hidden undemeath some cloth, among the furniture.
Defendant told the police that he had taken the money and thought his master would not notice it, untiɣ he had gone away from the Colony, and by that time it would be futile, to prosecute him. The prosecution pointed out be of cast steel manufactured at that the defendant was a heroin Parkhead by the Siemens Martid addict and smoked about $2 worth acid process. The contract in- of pills a day. He paid $23 to cludes all the machining neces-divan keeper for heroin consumed sary to permit of these great cast- and his wages was only $27 per Inga being built into the ship as month. The defendant was living soon as they have been transport beyond his means. Although de-night Ruby was happy and talka- ed from Messrs. Beardmore's yard over the eight miles, sèparating Parkhead Forge and Clydebank on the other side of Glasgow::
The whole of this material will
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WOODEN PATTERNS
An opportunity was given to see in some detail the steps. in the process Of manufacture. This begins with the making in pattern shop or the replicas in wood of each casting in the exact shape required.
the
fendant pleaded for leniency his Worship imposed sentence of three months' hard labour.
of the manufacturig process, and the nine minutes occupied by the emptying, of the ladles into the mould were a period of no small tension for everybody, concerned.
1,300 TONS OF STEEL The total weight of liquid steel required to manufacture the five The keel casting of the stern pieces of the stern frame amounts frame was in the machining stage. to approximately 300 tong Ma- The rudder-post portion of the chining and risers take off nearly
frame was stern
in the metal half the weight cast. Similarly, when being cleared by workmen for all the hull castings-the two using pneumatic drills of the sand pairs of shaft brackets, the rudder, adhering to the surfaces before and the stem, as well as the stern machining. The rudder trunk trame-the gross weight is 1,000 piece of the stem frame was being tons. reduced in the finished
cast from 70 tons of molten steel articles to 800 tons: held in two ladies which had just Heat treatment of the castings been filled by the tapping of two is required to ensure the work of the steel-melting furnaces possessing the proper physical In the foundry. Each ladle qualities and the hull castings of held 35 tons of metal
and No. 552. will be normalized in a
fur-
was tapped at the bottom as soon pyrometer-controlled closed as it was brought by the overhead nace. The firm has also been en- cranes into the desired position so trusted with all the main steel that a jet of liquid metal about castings for the steering gear of 2in. In diameter issued from each the vessel, together with the for- ladle and flowed down prepared ged steel crosshead for the rudder, to the bottom of the which is being made at Parkhead heavily weighted mould. As to the order of Brown Bros.. spectacle this is the high light Limited, of Edinburgh.
runways
N.W. Frontier Tribesmen Grow More Daring
this
When the convoy was attacked the leading armoured car and the first three supply lorries went to Splitol, native. levies'
post. Meanwhile, the infantry engaged
Shoe Store Strike
He Went To Cover
With the killing of seven British officers and 22 other ranks by Reporting the news and settling hostile tribes in Waziristan labour disputes are all a part of the week-end. events on the North- day's work for Raymond Zimmer-West Frontier are steadily moving man of the stat of the "New | towards a climax, states the "Dally the enemy. Brunswick Daily Home News," it Telegraph" of April 12 was revealed with the announce-
News of the attack reached the having arrived, from New York and
It is believed that the Govern- | Jandola company of 4/16th Pun- Porte of call, Consignees of Largo are thereby notified that their Goods are ment that as a result of his media- ment will soon have to use sterner jabis, who hurried to the scene tion efforts a strike of salesmen in measures against the followers of with a machine-gun' platoon and being landed and placed at their risk into the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf
the Albert Mistrial shoe store had the Fakir of Ipl. The threat of and Godown Company's godowne at
been settled, states the "Christian day and night bombing raids has Kowloon, where delivery may be Science Monitor."
so far not had the desired effect. obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
Dot be lauded Clerks in the establishment It is only 10 days since two Optional Cargo will bere, unless Notice has been given 48 walked out, demanding more pay British officers and 31 Indians hours prior to vessel's arrival, but carried and better working hours, and were killed in the same area. on port to port to the final port of charging that the shop manager The attack this week-end oc- call to which the option extends.
against 裁 Government No Claims will be admitted after the was "domineering." After talking curred
from
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armoured cars. They were reinfor- ced later by a company from Manzel. Additional aircraft parties of South Waziristan Scouts moved in the west and from Barwekal Jandola in the east.
The fighting continued through- out Friday until Saturday morning. The tribesmen showed remarkable sniping accuracy in "picking out British officers. The British showed remarkable pluck.
A portion of the convoy got through to Sarwekal and thence to Wana, while the remaining lorries halted at Tang1 and Chagmalai post. One plane was damaged by forced landing, rific and made a but the crew were uninjured.
Goods have left the Godowns, and all their case over, the salesmen tele- convoy eight miles from Jandola. Goods remaining undelivered after the phoned to the "Daily Home News" It shows that the tribes men are 7th May, 1937, will be subject to for a reporter, to whom they want more venturesome than ever.
The convoy, consisting of Hent,
All broken, chafed, and damaged ed to tell their trouble, believing
was escorted by Goods are to be loft in the Godowns, this might win public opinion to supply lorries,
cars and 125 in- where they will be examined on 6th their side. Mr. Zimmerman was four armoured
at 10 am by our assigned to the "story." "
fantry in lorries. Aircraft dew May, 1957, Burrayor, Capt. Walser C. Weston. After hearing the salesmen's side overhead to give additional protec-
To comply with the General Bonded or the dispute, the reporter saw tion. Warehouse Regulations, consignees must Mr. Mistrial and presented the The convoy was bound from have a Revenue Officer in attendance when damaged dutiable goods as salesmen's case. The shop owner Manzai to Wana, along the road said he was willing to talk matters through Jandalo. When the head examined.
over with the strikers, whereupon of the convoy reached a point Mr. Zimmerman brought them to eight mes west of Jandola it gether. The result was two-fold. was fred on by Wazir and There was an amicable settlement Mahsud tribesmen. They were This is a serious Government of the dispute and Mr. Zimmerman led by the notorious Khora Khel, reverse, and efforts at peaceful had a new and unexpected lead who is under the influence of the negotiation with the tribesmen for his "story."
Fakir of Ipi.
are for the moment at an end.
All claims must reach us before the 30th May, 1987, or they will not be recognized.
No Inaraaso will be effected. Bills of Lading will be out
JESSEN 00 Agenta, Borg Kong, 1st May, 1987.
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By early Saturday afternoon the fighting had ceased and the tribes- men had retreated to their fast- nesses,
or two more drinks, and left just before closing time, which was 10 o'clock.
"I walked with Ruby as far as a small tan near her home. There the road forks. Ruby went along to the left in the direction of her house, but I walked along the other road to my village, arriving home at about 10.45 p.m. On Sunday
tive."
Mr. Stone was discharged from the Army in December. He served In the Royal Artillery, and was in Hong Kong when his term expired. Since then he has been working RB a labourer in a sand pit in the village.
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