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Katract from leading article in "South China Morning Pete" of 18th March, 1919.
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THE HOTEL FIRE
DISASTER.
SUPERINTENDENT OF FIRE BRIGADE GIVES EVIDENCE.
PWD. OFFICIAL CALLED
THURSDAY, MARCH
whistles. Having gone out on the verandah, to see a number of people rushing about in the street, ha again got into bad. His mind, however, had become uneasy, and "he told the Court that it was not very long before he again get out of bed and opened the door of his room with a view to investigating. the cause of the row. Smoke bo-: gan to pour into the room and for the first time he realised the Hotel
Singed" In the Lift.
Questions with regard to Insure on ance, safety in building construc- tion and provision of fire escapes His first thought was to go up were raised at the sixth 'day's sit- ting of the Coroner's Inquiry held to the floor immediately above his by Mr. E. W. Hamilton into the to warn the others of his party. circumstances of the King Edward He doubted whether General Chan Ming-shu had returned to sleep in Hotel Are.
the Hotel, but there was his Secre tary, Mr. Chung, who was occupy- ing a room-adjoining the General's.
Mr. J. II. Witchell recalled, was questioned in regard to the business of the Ifotel and insui, ance that might have been effected thereon. In reply to the Coroner, witness said he knew of only three partners, these being Yu She-sha, Foo Ping-kwong and Cheung Foo kwong. He himself was a salaried servant of these three partners, but generally took any orders that might be given from the first-nam- od only.
The Coronor: As Manager, do you know what insurance has been effected on the business of the Hotel, that boing entirely apart from the structure?
Witness: Nothing at all. How long have the present part- ners been in business-For about two-and-a-half years,
Witness explained that they took over the business from Mr Tong Hok-ting who was then the leasco of the Hotel. Within the Last twelve months, large sums of money had been spent on the building and business; in white- washing, renewing all the beds, and the conversion of four double rooms Into single rooms. The al- terations to the rooms were by
Messrs. Clark and lu,
As witness started to go up the staircase to the third floor, half- way he was driven back by the dense smoke. Returning to his room, he warned 'a companion who was sharing the room with him, and together they went out into the passage, In an attempt to reach the wialn staircase. It was on fire, and while running about in the vicinity of the lift-shaft, feeling themselves trapped; the lift came up and the liftman came into view. The latter gave them certain information as to the direc tion in which to make their escape, but on their confessing to an en- tire ignorance of the lay-out of the floor, he took them in and came down to the ground floor with them. As they reached the bottom he noticed fames playing around an object the nature of which he could not distinguish except that it was near the staircase.
By the Coronar: He was burnt; in the arms and face; and hair was singed from his head by flames which had started to envelope the lift-shaft as they came down,
A Party Wall,
No Official Knowledge.
Mr. A.E. Wright, recalled, sub- Mr. A. E. Wright, Assistant mitted certain plane in respect of Director of Public Works, and certain alterations that had been Building Authority, said, in reply effected to the structure which was to the Coroner, that he knew noth-known as the Royal Building, ing of such alterations. "Plans housing the King Edward and had to be submitted, of course," Savoy Hotels he said.
He produced plans which were submitted in 1927 by which the construction was approved of the erection of an iron fire-escape ladder outside the Savoy Hotel, and the installation of WC's
Replying to the Coroner, Mr. Witchell said that he knew four months ago that the partners had been served with a notice by the landlords, terminating the lease,
Sometime or other, he continu- but no decision was reached and nothing came out of it. The parted, a party wall had been built on nera were in charge of the matter. the verandah of the 5th floor They hold a monthly tenancy of without authority, the premises, and apparently it was a question of getting the rent paid. A guarantee was given that it would be paid by the stipulated
timo.
In reply to his Counsel, Mr. Hin-shing Lo, witness sald that the rent was paid in advance, but on that date it had been left half
in arrears.
When payment was made it covered the arrears as well as left a balanos to cover in ad- vance half a month's tenancy. As far as witnesa knew, the rent was fully paid up t! February.
Business Flourishing. Mr. II. C. Lee (representing the landlords): I think Mr. Witchell knows to some extent, about the Arrears of rent. They were some months in arrears last year, but by the end of February everything had been paid up. Those arrears had been going on for such ́a length of time that the landlords had to give them notice to quit,
Replying to another question by Mr. Hin-shing Lo, Mr. Witchell said he did not know anything about Insurance having been ef- fected, until after the fire, when, of course, auch knowledge became common property.
Mr. Lo: You are not respon- sible for the payment of rent?
Witness: No.
Business on the whole had been a flourishing business during the three years?Yos.
Au Yeung pong, who, having given an ambiguous description of hia calling, was variously referred to in Court as officer, personal at- tendant, valet or bodyguard to General Chan Ming-shu, said ko had been to hospital for treatment of injuries he received in the fre: He was asleep in Room No. 207, on the second floor, when he was
roused by the sound of police
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He was not in the Colony when certain plans were submitted which resulte in the taking over of a part of the King Edward Hotel for the purposes of the Savoy Hotel. It might not have occurred to the P.W.D. officer who had charge that such division would affect the position of the King Edward,, in' that It Involved the closing up of the corridors at certain points, to establish the line of demarcation between the two
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In the case of the Savoy Hotel, the plans were properly submitted to the Fire Department and ap- proved by the Public Works Do-
partment.
Powerless to Reform.
It might not have occurred to the officer in charge to look up the date of erection of the build. ing, but witness was able to find a record which showed that in 1919 fire hydranta were required to be installed in the King Edward by the police or fire officers,
By the Coroner: He considered verandahs as advantageous in case of fire. He gave as his opin- ion that there wore many old office buildings in the-efty which had no fire escapes, but as a P.W.D. official, he was powerless to enforce the provision of these! Replying to the Coroner, the Hon. Mr. T. H. King said his in- formation was that they, too, were powerless to do anything in the matter except when licenses were issued, and then they could, in a way, enforce the measure by with- holding the licence until such pro- vision had been carried out.
Witness said that in his opinion there should have been an extra fire escape ladder loading, to the street outside from the King Ed- ward Hotel, He considered the
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