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"SUI AN" ENQUIRY.
Yesterday's Interesting
Evidence.
SEASICK PIRATES.
TUESDAY. DECEMBER 5, 1922.
Mr. Lake: There was in fact no offers in the event of a piratical scheme on the ship sp-far as you attack?Nax know?-Not so far as I knew,
The Searching at Macao, Arę Chinese passengers carrY-| ining luggage searched when going] at Macao?--Some of the on board them. all What do you mean by some of on them?-Out of every ten passen sogers, perhaps two or three are
searched.
Was there any system of signalsį
Yea mean a perfunctory search, from the bridge to the engine room not a therough search-No, not in case of piracy-Only a smala thorough search.
They are hand bell at the top of the engine searched by the revenue officers? room.
No, by detectives.
You recognise that the most perfect schemes require some |tefligent person to control
organisation TO make it at
fective 1-So far as you know this ship there was none?-Yos We were only abla yesterdayar as I knew? to give an outline of the early proceedings of the enquiry into the Sui An piracy, which is being continued again this afternoon.
Mr. J. Copeland, the chief officer, was giving evidend when our yesterday's edition went to press. He was questioned at some length by the Commission- ers later in the afternoon.
In reply to Mr. Mc. I Messer the witness stated that he did not know whether the Company had given any instructions to the master with re- gard to the duties the Indian guards had to perform.
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The Chairman:
Mr. Mcl. Messer: Do you know A Highly Organised Gang.
whether any of the pirates get The Chairman: Is there releen board at Hongkong or not?- phone communication between the Yes, Sir. bridge and the engine room!-Xo. The Chairman: How many?- Their is a whistling tube, but I do Four in the first class saloon.
think it has been used tori That includes one woman-
Yes.
Mr. Mcl. Messer: Did this woman speak English-No, Sir, Did you notice whether any of
years.
Mr. Shentoni -As a matter of: Replying to Mr. Lake he saidfact the Chief Officer had no oppor.) that during the three days he wasnty of giving you any signal-them had revolvers I do not
on the ship he took no personal in. terest in any organisation there! might have been for preventing piracy.
Nik
These pirates when in the engine were changed, every hour. Did it appear to you that this was Mr. Lake: Do you appreciate tot a mob of Chinese but a highly that the question of guarding organised fasamst, piracy is important?
+
Kang:- That
my
head with very
know.
In reply to Mr. Lake the witness said he had never heard of any special orders outside general in- structions being given on the Sui An with regard to resisting piracy.
Mr. Shenton: Did you recog nise any of the pirates I had a
{opinion. Witness It is important in one Directed by a way, provided you have sufficient high ideas organisation - Yeslight ides that one of them was
an ex-besan of the Hoisang. guards, but I do not think ten mea
These men bad revolvers with
The witness said he was satis would be sufficient to cope with that three different colours of ribbons fed that the grills were locked. Have you any idea what these 1; seemed to him that the ship indicated?-No Sir, not the least was in the possession of the I thought it strange at the tune. pirates from the time the first think that it was probably because shot was fired. they were told off to different parts of the ship.
business.
Mr. Lake asked whether the ques tion of piracy had ever occupied the wines attention daring the time le had been on river steamers i
The witness replied that he supply took up the position as it was left. Mr. Lake: You have never taken any individual interest in the carty. fing out of the påfäcy rezulations.? -
No.
Mr. Shecha pointed out that the witness had no prewer to do so. The guard was entirely under the control of the master of the ship.
There are three decks and there te three colours Yes.
Have you any idea how many en were on board1-1 should say at least 30.
I suggest to you that nothing
Mr. Shenton: It was quite. likely these pirates went over on the morning boat and got their arms at Macao?
Witness: I cannot say. Answering Mr. Hung the wit- resa said the compradore had no control over the guards.
under-
Mr. Lyson: Am I to
of the arming of the passenstand that at no time did you re- gers and organisation of the pas ceive instructions from the steam- officer any cengers as well as the cfcers. ship company or
to what Mr. Lake: I take it the efie could possibly have dealt with the superior to yourself as
you should do in case of a piratical attack?--No.
fiver is master of the executive:
Witness: The chief theer is mas- ter of the executive as long as he
the master's instruc
carries
NDUS I can give you several illus trations where things like that have cotur along, where I have mention. ed it to masters and have been told
And as far as you know the
situation-I do not think so was a highly organised affair, prob. aby worked eat months ahead
The people who were there kaea other officers of the ship had no such instructions?-I do not know. all about the ship from A to
Seasick Pirates. Yes.
"
The chief steward of the Sui Replying to Ma" Davidson the An, a Chinese, a bor in the first second engineer said it was aimest saloon" and the besun also gave
to mind my own business. I do not impossible to carry a revolver on evidence. The latter said the
say that would have happened in Capt. Birsa' case. If I had put it to Capt. Eirss he might have said "Alright"
Imuring a discussion as to the muaber of guards that should be on duty, the Chairman mentioned that regulation 25 required that at least two guards should be posted. It' had been given in evidence that for guards were actually on duty.
Answering Mr. Stenton the Chief Offeer stated that when he realised what was happening nothing he ebut hare done would hare altered
the situation.
Mr. Shenton: It comes to this, that assuming the grill had been locked and you had attempted to steer the ship, you would have been shot where you stood?
Witness: Sure I would.
2
navigat-
the person with a tight-fitting pirates were speaking the Hakka
a dialect. agis room suit There was desk in the engine room in which it could be locked up
Mr. Lake: The essence of this piracy on the Sui An was, I take t. surprise-Yes it was surprise.
Can you suggest any organisation: with the staff of that ship that could be applied to the Sui An and hase protected you against the pirates-No. I cannot.
Mr. Lake asked the bosan whe ther the pirates indicated by any actions that they were mariners?
"While the ship was under weigh some of them got seasick," the witness replied, amid laughter. The witness said the electric
lights were extinguished shortly after the attack commenced and were kept out all night.
The enquiry was adjourned The Chief Oficer, recalled, said until 2.30 this afternoon. the Sui An had a complete crew immediately after the piracy. No body had since left the ship.
S. S. STUART DOLLAR IN
DISTRESS.
The Purser's Experience. The purser of the Sai An, F. P. da Eca, stated that when the firing
San Francisco. November 9.- commenced be weat to his cabin
The steamer Stuart Dollar is and secured his revolver. He tried without rodder, floating on the Witness expressed the opinion, into rush, to the bridge, and then Pacific ocean 155 miles off Cape answer to Mr. Davidson, that
heard shots fired at him from out-Flattery, Washington. The tug steel revolver carried by a
He returned the Sea Monarch is rushing to aid side the saloon. ing officer might affect the compass.re, and believed be hit one man. the vessel which is reported to be
In the Engine Room.
He went away to hide his revolverjin no particular danger. The Thomas Oscar Bernard Harman, and then got rid of his uniform. Stuart Dollar is enroute from
Victoria to Manila. the second engineer of the Sui An, before entering the Saloon.
The Chairman: When you went were half Four pirates descended from into the saloon yua the lower deck and covered the men dressed!
told what happened in the engine
iroon.
there with revolvers, which were
:.
Witness: Yes, half dressed.
The Sipart Dollar was pre- viously she. Mangain and was one of the versei + recently bought by the Robert Dollar Company al Shangbai She is a new vessel
tied to their wrists with colcared There were about 15 to 20 pirates of 7,038 tons gross. 5,012 net and string. Some had blue, others red there. The passengers were holding was built by
the Kiangnan
and some yellow. They rushed the up their hands and were being Dock and Engineering Works of
They took from him Shanghai. stakehole and compelled the fire- searched.
en to keep steam up. No shots money, a watch and a ring. The
were fired in the engine ro010. He passengers were
was kept there fifteen hours.
The Chairman: Who ran engines?
to have the enginė room open?—
driven down the starboard side of the ship and hel
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or seven of the pirates wore masks. is a pair of Sir William Crookee Commander Beckwith: Was it So far as he knew all the grills Glasses-the ideal guard from glare. There are two varieties of usual in the Sri An during a voyage
ere locked.
Replying to Commander Beck-this glass: (a) A glass very light. The two bottom doors were always with, the witness stated that hely: tinted, of a pale amethyst closed, but the two
apper doors had been purser of the Sui Au colour which looks almost col. about a month and had been on ourless, (b) A neutral tint which were open.
cots down the glare is wall se the Macao run for 16.years.
harmful rays, Mr Mc I Messer: Have you ever
Have you ever had any instruct absorbing the
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tion in either regular or Toric grills should be shut or not 1-1 bave was to be done in the event of a form are manufactured by the never been instructed they were to piratical attack by night or day? Hongkong Optical Co., successors be shut, but. I knew they ought From who?
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Have you any idea as to what [artiun - tu "take in the event of
piracy is difficult These things, you never think of at the time.
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Was that understood in the Saf An? Yes.
How did you understand it? Did. Capt. Bless give you any in- structions at all?—No. Ta
So far as you know no general instructions were given to the
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