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ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE STANLEY.
EDITORIAL
CORRESPONDENCE COLLISION SEQUEL
́HONGKONG'S. NEW
GOVERNOR
To The Editor, Hongkong Dally
Prem
Glen Line Win Claim For
Unstipulated Damages
Str. Why I welcome the ap- The Prize giving "at" St.pointment of Major-General Nor-
Judgment, with costs, for the plaintiffs, the Glen Line Ltd., In Stephen's College, Stanley, will ton as Governor of Hongkong-
the case in which the Sotony-Vacuum Oil Company was sued for un- He is a Gunner of the old stipulated damages as the result of a collision between the Glen Line's know the .s. Flintshire and the tanker, Yarraville, in the Yellow Sea on June 6th. at 4 p.m. when all Parents, Old Boys and Friends are warm gunners of today. He has passed 15, 1937, was delivered in the Supreme Court yesterday by the Chief
through "The Shop" (Woolwich). | Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor.
take place to-day, Saturday, July school, I do
not
ly invited to attend. His Ex- only those civilians who served Plaintiffs were represented by it Impossible to believe that with cellency the Acting Governor, as Gunners during the last war Mr. Edon Potter. K.C. and Mr. Hout taking any retarding action the Honourable Mr. N.L. Smith, know the quality of the Regular. Macnamara, instructed by Mr. except stopping the engines at 7.23
Gunner. Officers.
F. G. Nigel, and the Hon. Mr. Leoam she could have been dead in and Mrs. Smith; have kindly
During his early training he D'Almada, Jnr., instructed by Mr, the water at 7.30 nor am I im consented to be present.
was taught to look after his D, H, Blake,
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THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING COMPANY
By Order of the Board, DERRICK & Co., Chartered Accountants,
Local Secretaries.
Hongkong Bank Chambers, SINGAPORE, 26th June, 1940.
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pressed by the sumciency of the horses and men frst and himself
In his written Judgment the steps taken by Captain East and last. Not only that, but, he
Chief Justice, sald:-
Mr. Boyd to satisfy themselves that given a subsection, and he
On the morning of June 15, 1937 in fact she had all way off by that made to put into practice what
time. I am satisfied that the the "Flintshire" and the "Yarra- he had been taught.
His attempt
Everestville" were in collision in the Yel-"Yarraville" sounded the two blast signal some time before she was shows that he 18 prepared to low Sea.
dead in the water. take the very greatest risks, but
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(I) The startling admission by both Captain East and Mr. Boyd" that in a fog, with engines stopped
Mr. and Mrs. Francis K. S. Chan who were married at the Rosary Church on July 1. The bride was formerly Miss Bertha Cam.—
(King's Stadio).
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SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1940.
Volunteer Orders
ORDERS BY LT-COL HI. B. ROSE, M.C. COMMANDANT, HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS
RECRUITS MEDICAL EXAMINATION
No. 1 Company
July 8. Full day's training un- is in
July 12, HQ, 3.30 pm Orderly der Platoon arrangements Medical Officer--Lt. A. M. Rodrl-Company circular..
gues,
AMENDMENTS TO VOLUNTEER ORDINANCE.
July 9, HQ. Those detailed by: Platoon Commanders.
"No. 2 Company,
The following proviso is added July 9, 5.30 p.m. Nos. 3 and T at the end of Regulation 3. (5) Platoons at EQ. and No. 6 Platcom Provided however that, during the at Kowloon Dock. Kit inspection period that the provisions of the parades, Dress-Helmet, K.D. Jac-. Compulsory Service Ordinance, ket, · shorta......... khaki hose tops, 1839, continue in force, and not-flashes, puttees, boots, belt and withstanding anything contained | pouches. At these parades all In the foregoing paragraph, all clothing and equipment issued, members of an Auxiliary unit shall with the exception of steel helmet. attend such drills and instruction greatcoat, klit and SBR must be parades as may be ordered by the produced for inspection. Commandant with the approval of
No. 3 Company the Governor, and the Ceneral
July 8, H.Q.. 8.15 p.m. Dress Officer Commanding the Troops.
Helmets, shirts, shorts, pouches, Regulation 3 (4) Is amended by haversacks, water bottle filled. substitution of the words Respirators will not be taken. "forty-six years" for the words Training as In Company circular. "forty-one years" in both cases in
July 9. Recruits and those de- talled at HQ. at 5.15 p.m.
No. 4 Company **
the
EVACUATION " SCHEME
Attention is directed to the no-
(a) Nationality.
July 9, HQ, 5.30 p.m. Those de- talled for extra L.G, instruction....... No. 5 Company
(b)
(stating relationship to member).
Numbers of adults affected ::
(c) Numbers of children affect
→ LIMITED.
The "Flintshire" was on a voy- from Tsingtao to Shanghai (Incorporated in Queensland) at the same time to take equally age
Ereat precautions. This expédi- and was on a course, South 2 degs. NOTICE is hereby given that ton also shows that he can com-West, the "Yarraville" was bound
mand men and animals 'and that from Shanghai to Dairen and her and with "an appreciable south Mr... G. W. Giffen, of the editorial which the latter words occur. the Share Registers of the no labour is too great to ensure course was North 3 degs Fast so easterly swell neither of them took staff of the Hongkong Telegraph. that the vessels, as it to be expect the trouble to observe the compass arrived in Hongkong on Thursday. Company will closed from Mon-their safety and comfert.
те From these facts
can day, 15th July, to Friday, 19th |
be ed in these waters were on prac or in any way to ascertain how
July 8 H.Q., 7.30. pm, for Hong wetically parallel coursés.
their ship was heading is almost future
Frof. Paul M. A. Linebarger, of tification published in the local kong men and Kowloon Railway July, 1940, both days inclusive. assured that for the
incredible. There is evidence that Duke University, North Carolina, press requiring all members HLR Station, 8 am, for Kowloon men. shall have a leader who will ask
The times of the two vessels vary the Yarraville" fell off her course arrived in Hongkong on Thursday V.D.C. who have wives and fami- Field training at Fanling. All day, of us no sacrifice which is not by one minute, and, save where I 65 or 70 degrees to starboard and on his way to Chungking. necessary: who will not be afraid have to consider the handling and and indeed it is only on the as-
les who are not already evacuat-
Compulsory. Dress-Boots, puttees, “ to ask gacrinces of us which are navigation of the "Yarraville." in sumption that she so fell off that
ed or have been exempted or are hosetops, shorts, shirts, helmets. necessary and who
will, at all which case I adopt her own times I can understand the evidence Baptist Mission, Shanghai, passed ward the following particulars i naversacks on back, water bottle Miss R. Mather, of the American of British Portuguese Race to for Full equipment. Belts pouches, times, work for our safety and I have for purposes of convenience that the "Flintshire's" signals were through Hongkong yesterday on writing to the Adjutant (envelopes nied, frogs, rifle slings. Knives: our well-being and will never con-adopted the times given by the heard on the Yarraville's port bow. her way to Manila.
to be marked "E.K.V.D.C. Evacua-and forks will be brought. sider n own except for our "Flintshire," which are one minute
(IV) At 1.33 am the "Yarraville"! good.
ahead of the times given by the
tion Scheme").. put her engines half ahead and her Miss C.L. McElwain.. of St. Lastly, I gather Major-General "Yarraville."
heim hard astarboard, all at a time Elizabeth's Hospital, Shanghai, was Norton has served in the East "About 4.54 am, indications of fog when no officer on board took the a passenger to Manila through long enough to be able
to ap- were seen,, the "Flintshire's" "en- trouble to observe their own head-Hongkong yesterday. preciate the difficulties of govern-gines were put at standby, at 4.50ing and when they had no means community such the engines were put to slow, and of knowing how the "Flintshire" ing å as is to be found in Hongkong..
the regulation blast was blown at was heading the prescribed, intervals. At 7.07 a.m. the whistle of another ship faults is concerned I am unable to So far as the second of these was heard and the "Flintshire's" engines were at once stopped. At hold that it in fact contributed to 7.08 a.m. her engines were put slow the collision. It is clear from the ahead, and, as the majority of evidence of Captain Christle and few months at the outside is opinion aboard was that the signals Mr. Munday that at least as early as 7.27 am they had formed a still being fought as relent-were from a ship on her starboard lessly as ever. During all this bow her helm was ported a point suspicion amounting virtually to a time China has had to put up At 7.10 am, everyone was satisfied conviction that the two blast signal from "the. "Yarraville" was falla- with a many trials and tribu- that the other vessel was in factous and that in fact she still had lations and but for the fact on the "Funtshire's" starboard bow,
way ob Her arid was moving that in his far-sightedness · ORIGINAL COURSE
through the water, and I cannot the Generalissimo had long she was put again on her origin-therefore hold that they were mis- before July 1937 moulded the al course of South 2 degs. West, led by that signal, country into unlñèd deter-The other' vessel's signals appeared mination, the Japanese afms to be broadening on the "Flint-
have might easily
beenshire's" starboard bow, At 7.14 Mr. D'Almada while frankly ad- before now. am, the "Flintshire's" engines were mitting the liability of the "Yara. behind China's put half ahead. At 7.15 a.m. those ville" has argued that the Funt-
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HONGKONG, JULY 0, 1940.
THREE YEARS OF
WAR IN CHINA
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GUNNER (Temporary).
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The secret
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Mr. G. Treverton, Private Secre- tary to His Excellency the Acting the Colony on Tuesday next. Governor, is expected to return to
His Excellency the Acting Gover- nor will receve the Po Leung Kuk Committees for 1938, 1939 and 1940 Monday.
at Government House at noon onl
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Mr. J. B. Harrison, of the Asiatic Petroleum Co. (8.C. Ltd., arrived in Hongkong on Thursday from the north.
"Mr. A Dewar, manager for China, West Coast Life Insurance Co., arrived in Hongkong on Thurs- day from Shanghai. -
- July · ·8," HQ, 8.a.m. Dress Boots, puttees, hosetops, shorts, ed.
(d)
pouches, Whether it is desired for shirts, helmets, belts those affected to be evacuated" ir haversacks and water bottles Alled. possible or, in the event of an Knives and forks must be carried.
July 9, HQ., 5.15 pm. Film-"3: emergency, to be housed and fed under arrangements to be made inch Mortar," by Government.
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No. 6 Company GAS INSTRUCTORS COURSE July 9. HQ. 5.15 pm. N.CO.'S All Olasa July 16, H.Q., 5.15 p.m. avaliable unit gas instructors. Sound film on gas training follow- ed "by a lecture by Captain V. & Branson, MC.
PARADES
Army Service Corps Company July 9, HQ, ·5,30- pin. · · Duty Sections not available for Thurs day parade. LMG, and, "8.AT. Rife. CSM, will arrange to draw ... stores" according "to" training pro-
gramme.
excellent resistance perhaps on the "Fintshire" heard two long shire" also was at fault, lies in the fact that the blasts from the other vessel, and am, the "Flintshire's engines were Motor Co., Export Inc., Shanghai. Overalls and sun platform shoes met, boots, puttees,
now
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3rd Battery
Exercise will be over, Area I July 10 and 12, HQ, 2.15. p.m. Dress-Mufti ...
E. N. Thursby, Captain...” Adjutant. HKV.D. Corps.
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of kit
Corps Artillery Dress for all day training for all
Field Ambulance. C.R. In 1, 2, 3 and 4 Btys.
July 9 HQ Coy. Parade. 8.30 Helmet, shirt, shorts, puttees am. Under Lt. Stout. folled down, black boots, full web July 10, H.Q., 8.30 am, A ̈ Cof. equipment with haversack, anti-parade under Lt. Scott w
Dress-Shorts, shirts, sun hel- A 1.27 Mr. J. V. Crowe, of the Ford gas respirator, water bottle filled.
hosetops, people, not so much the aghit-that simmal, indicating that the stopped, but, says Mr. D'Almada, passed through Hongkong from to be carried, also steel helmets, haversack, water bottle, knife and
spoor, fork, knife, plate and "mug" fork. ports from North China ing services, refuse to yield to the vessel was dead in the water that precautionary measure was the north on Tuesday.
2nd Battery continued at regulation intervals.not sufficient, and she ought to preached, not told the world that there had propaganda
At 7.20 am, the "Flintshire's" en-have gone astern, at the same time been a clash between Chinese through the wireless or news-gines were put slow ahead, and at taking appropriate helm action to Singapore, was а passenger to a.m. and Japanese troops at the papers, but by bombing planes 727 am as those on board the minimise swing. The Flintshire" Manila through Hongkong on Marco Polo Bridge sector in and heavy artillery, supported "untshire" were suspicious of the throughout had kept her course Thursday.
July 9, ELQ 5.30 p.m. Change Liukuochiao, it was generally by all the mechanised and correctness of the "Yarraville's with the exception of a one point felt that it was just another other units that Japan can two blast algnal the "Flintshire's" porting for two minutes which „Mr. A. Katz, of the Cathay Gold
4th Battery
AFFILIATED UNIT bombings of engines were stopped. At 7.33 am would take her further away from Storage Co.. Shanghai, passed of the skirmishes between the muster. The
From 7.20 1.17.
through Hongkong yesterday on July 9 HQ, for Pakshawan, 8 Nursing Detachment, HEV.D.C. Chinese and Japanese which open towns and cities, refugee a single blast was heard from the the "Yarraville."
ARP. LECTURE had taken place from time centres and hospitals, schools Yarraville" and almost simultan-to 7.27 am her engines had been his way to Manila.
5th AA Battery to time. Nobody thought for and universities, and defence-eously a ripple was seen on the at slow ahead so that at 7.27 am.
·July 10, A‚R.P., HQ., Happy Val- The Police Mahjong Drive which have water and the "Yarraville" emers her speed would not be more than villages might
July 9, H.Q., 7.30 am. No. 1 Sec- moment that the
ley, 5.45 p.m. arranged to take place on tion. Full day's training. Dress-- famous Liukuochlao Incident broken the spirit of "othered from the fog crossing the 4 knots, and the evidence is that was
`, HOSPITAL ̧ ATTACHMENT would have such far-reaching people, but to the stoically/ "Flintshire's" bows from starboard when she sighted the "Yarraville" Monday in aid of the 8C M.P. Wat 6.D. caps, shirt, trousers, boots, I
full web "equipment including The under-mentioned members consequences so far reach-natured Chinese population to port. The "Flintshire's" engines her speed through the water was Fund has been cancelled
haversack and water bottle filled, were attached to Military Hospit ing, in fact, that tomorrow, every such raid or attack were put full astern and her he not more than two knots.
hard aport At 34 am, the ves
Mr. B. H. Stearns, passenger steel helmet over left shoulder. tal for training during the period three years to the day after merely served to strengthen sets were in collision the "Yarra
agent, Canadian Pacide Raliway the incident," the opposing the determination and; will-ville's" course then being estimat-come, and which I am advised is a Co., Manila, was a passenger to/Spare shirt, overalls and G.P. shoes shown
Hongkong · ¡on to be carried in haversack as well Mrs M. G. Matthews-24ƒ 6/40 ́ forces are still fighting bitter- power to fight on, until every ed by those in the Tintshire's" Doper one, is that the Flintshire Manila through
was at all times navigated in a Thursday, accompanied by Mrs. as knife, fork and plate.
1/7/40. Mrs. F. D. Barnet-24/6/ ly-one defending her terri-invader has been driven from as approximately Tue rust
proper and seamanlike manner,
Stearns.
July 9, HQ 5.30 p.m. No. 2 Bec-40-1/7/40. tory, and integrity with a China's soil.
The "Yarraville" when she first and that no degree of responsi
tion. Rifle course. Dress 8.0 STRENGTH-DECREASE determination that has won IN REVIEWING the war let encountered fog was proceeding at bity for the collision can be attri-
St. Andrew's Club Bathing caps, shirt, trousers, boots and for her the admiration of the us not forget the sacrifices a speed of 11 knots When she ran buted to her.
Plenic, which was arranged for web equipment less haversack and world, and the other still try-made by the millions of into fog she put her engines to
It follows therefore that in my today, has been cancelled. Bath-water bottle. ing to impose her ruthless women in China. Truely they standby and continued at full judgment the "Yarraville" is sole- ing picnics may, however, be re- Field Company "Engineers will on a people who had; are people that any country at 7.23. a.m. She states that she ly to blame for the collision with aimed next Baturday if there Is
July 8, K.GR. 5.30 pm all along sought no more than may justly be proud and when then. heard a whistle, apparently to be left alone to work out the time comes for a history one on the port bow whereupon
Corps Bignals their own salvation. It will of the Sino-Japanese war to her engines were stepped perhaps be recalled by those he written, pages indeed must then alleges that at 7.30 a.m. she who have followed the Sino-be devoted to the part played had run all her way off and was Japanese hostilities with any by China's women population dead in the water, and she then degree of interest, that efforts to whom Madame Chiang sounded, the first of a series of two were, in fact, made to come Kai-shek has been, and will blast signals. to a peaceful settlement but continue to be, such
an
speed until a time which she gives
SERIOUS DISCREPANCY
She
After
to no avail. As the days inspiring example. Sacrifices From these two accounts. It is passed, the Japanese Military are made without the slightest clear that there is a serious dis- Command made no secret of complaint, and whenever crepancy between the recollection the fact that the policy to be it had been to the interest of those in the “Flintshire”, and followed was to "beat China of the country for women and those in the "Yarraville." to her knees and, in point children to give ungrudging-careful consideration of all the of fact, it was publicly an-ly, China's millions have evidence I have no hesitation in nounced that China would be never been found wanting. accepting the times given by the so battered and beaten by such noble spirit, such Flintshire" wherever inch con- Christmas of 1937 that there sacrifices cannot be made it exista would be, from that point, a without reward, and reward It has not been, contended that "new order in Asia."
there will most certainly be the Yarraville was not in fault AS MATTERS have turned when China, rid of the Jap- and I find her in default in four out, however, it would seem anese menace, breathes freely separate respects,
On her own showing, from that Japan's militarists made again, to continue with her 656 am when she ran into fog a historical blunder in either peaceful pursuits and im she continued at her full speed of over estimating their own provements which had been 11 knots until 7.23 am. That speed, might, or under-estimating showing such wonderful pro- I am satisfied, was in such circum- the fighting power and deter-gress but which were rudely stances excessivo, mination of China The war Interrupted at Lukuochlao on (1) If her speed at 723 am was that was supposed to las that fateful July 7 of 1939 11 knots through the water 7 rind
The conclusion to which I have
the""Flintshire."
sufficient inducement."
RISE IN COST OF ESSENTIAL FOODSTUFFS AND COMMODITIES DURING THE LAST THREE YEARS
"The following table of average prices, prepared by a Hong- kong Daily Press reporter yesterday, gives a splendid idea of the rise. In cost of essential food stuffs commodities during the last three years. The increase during the last week in excep tionally striking.
Commodity
Before Sino-Japanese
War
Rice
$8 per pleti
Firewood ~| Kitchen Oll
T per picul !
20 cents per catt
Salt
'3.cta per
*Beef:
Chicken:
Before European
War
Week Ago Present
(chicken
$2.50
25 eta!:
eta
$1,60
drill
Arms
July 8, HQ, 5.15 pm. (1) Group
Bliss B. Redwood-25/6/40; Mrs. HL Tomlinson-29/6/40. Mrs. A. Moffatt — 29/6/40. - Mrs. "DE Holmes 30/6/40,
PRACTICAL BANDAGING CLASS
July 8, HQ, 10.30 am.
BLOOD DONORS
A. Morse Flag pairs, Semaphore. To attend Military Hospital pairs (1) Group B and Group C. wen Road, on Thursday, July Victoria Barracks. (1) Recruits. 5.30 pm, for test. Uniform will be Morse instruction.
worn Transport leaves HQ at
July 10, HQ.. 2 p.m. (1) Kit 5.15 pm
Inspection parade. All uniform FIESTAID LECTURES
and equipment will be brought to
HQ. Epares will be carried in kit
Commence on Friday, July
bag. (11) Area lines Tests. No. 1 5.30 D., St. John's Cathedra
Fall Coy, and. No, 2 Coy. Areas. (1) Remainder. Signal training.. (lv) D.R. Duty runa
Mobile Column
$30
- HOME - NURSING LECTURES.
Commence on Monday, July 18, pm. Bt. John's Cathedral July 10 HQ, 8.30 a.m. All ranks Hall, All Mobile members, must (No exemptions unless previously attend these lectures authorized by O.C.) DressRTR take the era ation at the end Cape, black boots, web equipment, HOME anti-gas respirators.
Armoured Car Flatoon July 8, 5.20 p.m Crew drill: and dri
July
SING EX
ATION
July and 19, at Helena May Institute. Members: will be, dolaned by circular In due,
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