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WOMEN'S Inquest On
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Donate Ambulance To National Red Cross
Welder
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May 16, 1939.
CHOPPER ATTACK
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spectators gathered at Magistracy yesterday, Mr. Q. A. A. Bridges Street, Central, on the after- BUGLES! - - - YOUTHFUL HEARTS POUND TO
Sitting as Coroner at the Kowloon 10-year-old man named Chan Pul at
"FLYING BULLETS CRACK TO THE BLARE OF Statue Square yesterday after Macfadyen conducted an inquiry into noon of May 10 was --Nawa Chronicto..
noon when the Chinese Women's the death of a man named Chan San, ance of twelve men before Mr. T. J. THE BEAT OF DRUMS Club donated an ambulance to 21, who died, recently as a result
Magistracy the National Red Cross Society.of No.
of an explosion on the ground floor Houston at the Central
yesterday. 360 Reclamation Street, Defendants were Ya Ngan, 20, un- Dr. C. T. Wang (late Chinese Youmat!. Ambassador to Washington), Pro-explosion occurred whilst Chan was cheung, 23, unemployed; Tot Chuk, In evidence it was stated that the reployed; Li Chok, 32, stall foki: 32, unemployed; Li Kwok- aldent of the Red Cross, received about to weld a large drum which 18, unemployed; Lam Plu, 17, un- the key of the ambulance from bad previously contained sulphuric employed; Shum Po-yuen, 20, Mrs. M. K. Lo, President of the aeld.
employed; Pang Kam-wah, 10, haw- Club.
C. C. Petrovich, of the Kowloon ker: Hui Chuch, 20, unemployed; Tse Hospital, sald that he had examined Chuen-lam, 17, student: Make So, 18, The ambulance is one of the very Chan and had found him with in- hawker and Ching Kwan, 24, un- latest type, a streamlined Studebaker Juties all over the body. In his
emopyled. model, equipped to hold sixteen
the cause of death was They were all charged with
fractures, shock
and wounding 'Chan with intent to malm, built on a special chassis, The haemorrhage. Chan's wounds could disfigure or disable hin Women's Club is the first association be consistent with the bursting of some other grievous bodily harm.
la or do him in Hongkong to present such a vehicle some metal object immediately be- to the Red Cross, a fact of which the fore him,
Inspector A. L. Hopkins prosecut- Club is justifiably proud.
Dr. V. C. Branson, Government! naill Thursdayton that he under- ed, and asked for a formal remand. Analyst, said that on May 1 he re- He told Mr.
which was granted. After the ceremony of handing colved from Sub-Inspector Mottram stood Mr. C. A. 9. Russ was appear- over, the officials adjourned to the two steel drums, one intact and one Ing for Hul Chuen. Club rooms, where refreshments with the removed. He examineet It is alleged that the defendants, were served.
them and found that they were both with others not in custody, attacked dry. He washed them out and was Chan Inflicted injuries to his arm and Mrs. Li Shu-pui,
on behalf of the of the opinion that both drums had head. Chan is at present in the President, and Vice-Presidents (Mes-j dames Li Shu-fan and Tso Sin-wan) Traces of the acid were stili present
nt one time contained sulphurle acid. Queen Mary Hospital. addressed the assembly and said;
and there
evidence also of "Our members have been keenly sodium compound in the washings. its side. Suddenly something hap- interested in securing the ambulance This was consistent with soda having pened and wliness knew nothing else which I have the pleasure of hand-previously been used in an attempt until he woke up in hospital. ing over to the Chinese Red Cross to wash the
drums, in your presence to-day.
Cheng Tal-sang, 32, a broker, sald "The
amount of sodium compound that about two months ago he sold great work of the Chinese present was very minute. It appear Red Cross has been well-known to ed from this that the drums, if they Chenient Company of Kwellin Street, some iron drums to the Yeo Li us for
great many years, especially had been washed with soda, were The buyer from the Chemien! Com- since the hostilities, and this gift is washed with a solution which was pany had been informed meant as a small contribution to insufficient in strength to neutralise drums. had previously wards the relief of suffering.
the aeld. A strong solution of soda sulphuric The President of the Chinese Red
should ordinarily Cross, Dr. C. T. Wang, who has so neutralise any acid remains, in any Company, said that when the drums be sufficient to Tsang Ho Kau, 32, of the Chemical Ictedly consented to
to be present to empty drum. Even if the drums had were bought he had been told that day, has achieved much in the seen washed out with soda, it was they had once contained sulphuric domain of diplomacy both as Foreign Minister and Chinese Ambassador at to get the full effect of the washing. be washed with a soda solution, and necessary to refill them with water acid. He had ordered the drums to Washington. Now he is keenly in- Diluted sulphuric acid acted on the this had been done in his presence. terested in the organisation of war steel or iron of which the drums were He knew that the washing relief and we look forward to re-made, to produce hydrogen which. necessary precaution, it ceiving valuable advice from him.
It iron In combination with the oxygen
in had
drums the air, formed an explosive which had ordered the washing merely. ns
contained sulphurle nell. H was liable to explode, particularly if "I should like to mention that I naked light were present. Even because he had feared any explosion.
a measure of cleanliness. and not TO - MORROW have a personal interest in the Red as small an amount of hydrogen as Apart from this he had learned from Cross as, during my tour of the South 4.1 per cent was liable to cause an welders that they liked drums wash- recently on behalf of this Club, I had explosion.
ed with soda before being sent for opportunities of roticing the keenness
Previous Explosion Sub-Inspector T. H. Whelan of to No. 300 Reclaimation Street.
repairs. Two of the drums were sent of Overseas Chinese in all matters pertaining to war relief in China, Mongkok Police Station testified to Li Ming-chau, coolie, said that he especially the field work of the Chi- an explosion occurring on the ground had worked with Chan on the day nese Red Cross. I was happy to floor of 20 Shantung Street on April of the explosion. Chan had been in have been able to assist the publicity 18. The explosion was similar to the front of the lid of one of the drums work on behalf of the Red Cross present one, and in that instance and had a blow lamp in his hands. during my visit by lectures and per- several persons had been injured but He was suddenly blown Into the sonal contact in conjunction with my none filled.
street. work among the Over Ngan propaganda work:
Chung, 18, apprentice worker seas Chinese women in Saigon, Java of 360 Reclamation Street, said that Bed that Chan's death
Mr. Macfadyen said he was satis- and Singapore.
Chan San had
was due to been his
master-misadventure, and that death was the I sincerely trust that the close teacher. At 10 am on April 29 he result of an explesion caused when relations already existing between went to work and saw that there Chan was welding an iron drum, our two institutions will be further were two drums in the shop that which had previously contained cemented by future co-operation in were to be welded. Chan had been sulphuric weld.
welding one of them and social activities."
with a blow Before expressing.
his sympathy to Urgent Need for Ambulances lamp. Witness helped with the work Chan's mother, Mr. Macfadyen ad- Dr. C. T. Wang said that he felt on the first drum, and nothing un-vised those concerned to take more honoured to be present, and to have
toward happened. Work later com-care when welding drums that once been asked to represent the National menced on the second drum, which contained sulphuric Red Cross at the function in Statue
was laid on its side. Chan
Beid They was should take the precaution of wash- Square,
squatting opposite the ild of the nt them with a strong solution of The function was especially signi- drum and witness was standing by soda water: fcant, ho sald, because of the extreme urgency of the present war situation, when, instead of being on the defen- sive, the Chinese troops were de- finitely on the offensive. This racant more casualties and hence the necu for more ambulances and more trained medical men and women for field work.
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