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Tel. Addresa “PALACE.”
WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY 18, 1928.
TRAGIC PIRATE OUTRAGE.
OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.
they loft, the loot could only have NOW TO REMOVE CAUSES OF 20sisted of arms. Nothing else was interfered with in the pirates
(Continued from Pane 1,1 ̧ ̧ If anything was taken from the This gave the officers something San Num 5 by the mitos when of a breathing apasa but, they maintained a fire while the plates wore leaving. The latter also continue to fire, however. Mr. ste to leave the scens,of a ghastly Conway was then examined and it; was found that nothing could be done for him.
failure.
The San Nam Hoinaw bears mute evidence of the fluce fight which raged on board her yesterday Apparently all the pirates on the morning. The ship is ptted with ship jumped overboard and swam bullet-holek, all these being at the out to sampans lying a fair dis-fore end of the ship Several bul tance away. Although the defence lota passed through both the mess of the ship had been carried out, room and an 'adjacent "assenger there were still pirates to be dealt cabin, while another shaltered the with and the Sun Nam Hol was mess room window and then lodged swung round so that the sampans in the woodwork surrounding a could be covered with riflea. Win-mirror. The wood of the gabins is chester rifles were used on the torn in many places, legifying to bridge and a number of shots hit the large number of shots fired at the sampan. It was impossible to the defenders of the bridge.
Capt. Sparkes, who not only fired tell how many casualties. were effected amongst those on board.
BASHFULNESS.
SOME.COMMON. CAUSES.
Some people are abnormally bash- ful, modest or shy. Such people are likely to resent viclently the in- sinuation that they feel themselves inferior.
It has been pointed out that a hunchback, "a dwarf or a person with a clubfoot" is not likely to be shy because his inferiority is ob vious. The one who is abnormally shy is the one who feels inferior but is unwilling to admit it.
The boy in school who through some accident is stigmatized as a at the pirates but was in coward may be left with awkward,
charge of The pirates were forced to make sole
the bridge, shyness for the rest of his life." little cover.. He fired Sometimes these people are relieved for the shore, there being a heavy had rifle fire aimed at them. All duck-by stepping out of the wheel-by finding themselves under circum- ed deep into the sampan to utilise house to the wings of the bridge, stances under which the majority
cover available to the best directing his shots towards the of those present suffer fear. advantage.
the
The pirates were too busy con- cealing themselves to reply to the
arms were
at effective. Al-
pirates.
NAVAL REPORT.
Common Causes.
In a consideration of the subject, fire, even supposing that their Chinese Authorities Make Arrests, some physicians point out that in ability to play games will often though they escaped from the ship,' A brief Naval Wireless message cause a feeling of inferiority that the pirates did not escape entirely, states that the pirates launched persists into later life. A real or us when they, reached the shore their attack when the vessel was fancied absence of Physical attrac they ran into a body of Merchant in the neighbourhood of Pakkai attiveness is a fairly common cause of Volunteers who arrested them. about half past nine yesterday shyness in mer.
morning. In the ensuing 8ght, Shyness is, moreover, i constant the Chief Officer was sumbered characteristic of a person of Fairly mong the fatal casualties, also lowly origin who finds himself two Indian guards, while two thrown suddenly into association guards received with the wealthy, the aristocratic, cther Indian wounds. Casualties sustained byer the socially superior. the pirates are believed to include six men who were killed in a sampan.
Some Arrests.
i
When their attempt to gain com- mund of the vessel failed, the pirates escaped by jumping into the sea.
The younger members of a family who are sometimes unwarrantedly expected to measure up to the bril- liam accomplishments of a parent or of elder members of the family not infrequently suffer with an in- feriority that manifests itself in
nyness.
Mr. Houghton understands, that fifteen pirates were arrested while six or seven others were dead. At the monrent it is not clear how the casualties were suffered. Some of the pirates, of course, may have been shot in the sampans, and the number may include some who might have been drowned. Then, again, casualties may have been inflicted by the Volunteers on
Action has been taken by the shore who are understood to have
Tnd philosophers and likely to fired at the pirates.
local Cantonese authorities in the When it was
clear that the vicinity of Min Hoi silage which call the symptom of shynessy the The word "Tear is pirates had left the ship, Mr. has resulted in 11 suspects heingname of fear, Houghton, acting on instructions apprehended in that village and a batter word and the mere charac- terization of manifestations by such from the Captain, went aft to see also others in the district. what had happened to the Indian Former members of the ship's a word may intensify them and be guards. One man was lying dead crew who were discharged and harmful to the patient. Shyness are associated with the seems to be an attempt of a person on the doorstep of his quarters. who la believed that the guard, who branch of the Seaman's Union "at to escape some difficult situation.
believed to have
Blushing. was at the grille at the time the Pakkai are. attack was opened, was looking planned the piracy. down the companion-way when he was shot in the head. He was then, apparently, able to make his way aft
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The Pirated Vessel..
Inordinate blushing has usually been associated with shyness or modesty; on the other hand, the synipton appears also in anger, The philosophers try to reason that the blush of embarrassment is after all associated with a feeling of anger against the situation against the person who caused the embarrassment.
and
In their quarters were three! The Sun Nam Hot, formerly other Indian guards, all wounded. narned the Nam Hol, and before It is presumed that they were that the Tai On, is a steel screw having breakfast at the time of the steamer of 722 tons gress and 427 attack and that they were shot nett. She was built in Hongkong without warning. is would ap-yethe Kwong Hip Latng as long pear that the pirates, made no at-lago as 1891 and was engined by the tempt to disarm them and place dame firm with 67 N. H. P. They associated also with stammering, them under control, but took the vessel was rebuilt in 1914 by the which is another method of at-
tempting to escape from a situa stronger measure of scoting Kwong Fat firm of Hongkong. them without warning.
The condition is not infrequent-
The owners of the San Nam Hoition in which the, person feels in- ure the Fat Hing Steanship Com-ferior. A competent investigator Guards Shot,
pany, of 144, Des Voeux Road West, of diseases of the mind is usually The dead man found on the Hongkong. The vessel, which is able to find out for the individual doorstep, who presumably hadistered in Canton, is 172.3 feet the particular factors in his life heen shot at the companion-way and a moulded depth of 10:1 feet.
in length, with a beam of 35.1 feet that have made him feel inferior and through proper suggestion to and had then run along the deck; Mr: M. F. Houghton, the Chief enable him to overcome his dis-
ability. was shot in the head, the right Engineer, is a British subject aged breast and the abdomen. He also 25, who has been two years on the had another wound in the stomach. San Nam Hoi without having pre-
Another guard was shot in the viusly encountered pirates.
Ile abdomen while in his bunk. A is the only European member of third was wounded in the wrist the engine room staff, the second. and shoulder and the fourth in the and third engineers being Chinese. to-day's questions:--- left wrist and right thigh. The fitter, two Chinese greasers, four 2. Ten By embedding it in five inches three wounded men in the cabin firemen and two trimmers com- of solid ponerere. Titania - Sapphire, were all alive, but one died later,plete the personnel under his Portin, Guinevere, Marie Antoinette. B. A making two dead and two wound-supervision, ed. The movements of the other two guards have not yet been determined.
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The Deccased Officer.
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?·
The following are the replies to
ones
Better by one hundredweight per nere.
term of expression peculiar to language, by my two' written consunabia expriming single,ound,e.....ph., ch, pr two vowels pronounced as one, c... "ea" in "head." (c) exaggerated phrase for the sake of cuphasín,. 6. No-winged Insects da iɔot grow, i Littl The late Mr. Conway was, about Telong to a different speties From big Questioned with regard to the 45 years of age and was an old 7. Becap of the special purity of the wounds inflicted on Mr. Conway, China coast hand. He had been in
water and the Highlandair, uncontaminated Canute; kucceeded by smoke. 8. King Ir. Houghton said he had a large the San Nam Hoi for some time, at Etzired the Unreat, whu fled to Normaad wound just below the throat, one feast since 1925. It is understood in 2010. Factious-belonging to a faction or party; factious-artifcial, sham; ctiti in the right check and wounds in that he was not married and has no ou false, imaginary. 10. - (4) An angle cach thigh. He did not think Mr. relatives in Hongliong
of 90deg; (b) an angle is than a right angle; (c) an angle greater than a right Conway had had time to fire. He A man of retiring habits, he was angle. 21. A collect in a short prayer, con- must have been, shot dead just well read and his most popular renting of (a) an invocation sultable to the after he left his cabin,
deznus was the Institution of En-main chatter of the petition following; (b) one comprehensive petition; (c) a suitable Asked if he recognised any of the gineers and Shipbuilders, where he conclusion. 12. Three pirates as belonging to former spent most of his time on shore. crews of the San Nam Hoi, Mr. There he had many friends and was Houghton said that owing to the universally liked for his geniality. fight he had no opportunity of
studying any of the men, but was.
under the impression that one man RAISING MONEY FOR was formerly employed by the compradore, of the San Nam Hoi.
"Engines Not Stopped.
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At no time of the piracy were the engines stopped. Meeting with resistance from the bridge, the pirates had apparently A sign of the close proximity opportunity of taking control of of the Chinese New Year is the the engine-room. When the vessel fact that most of the coolie class. reached Kam Chuk, the ensign of Chinese take to all forms of was reversed and half masted. gambling in order to raise a little The San Nam Hoi's greatest ready cash with, which to tide over: need at that time
the festive season. xistance for the 'injured · men) Twenty such persons were and this was forthcoming when charged before Mr. R/E. Lindsell H. M. S. Faulkner was met at First this morning with gambling in
North Point on the premises the Hongkong Electric Company: Naval Party Comes Aboard, The game they chant was fan tan The San Nam Iloi hove to and and 80 interested were the players an armed party from the Faulkner in the chances of the game that boarded her. First aid was given the arrival of the police was unob- to the wounded, but they were not served, with the result that all the removed from the San Nam Hof. gamblers were taken into custody. The Faulkner then escorted the ves- They were fined $3 each. A con- del to Pakkal, the naval party being fiscation order was made by the which the odds wore stated, the man withdrawn. At Pekkai, the mas-magistrate in relation of $10.90, ter of the San Nam Hol communi- which was being staked at the time set up a business in Kam Wah cated with the police and Merchant of the rald.
Street. Unfortunately for him, the a search of the ship. The crew sought to make a fortune out of and he was fined $5, or, in default, Volunteer orkanisations who made Another enterprising Chinese police got to hear of his activities, was questioned and two men were small boys in Shaukivan. With n days', hard labour by Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning. His gamb three dices and a piece of cloth on ing paraphernalia was confiscated.
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