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MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1928.

'KUMSANG" INQUIRY.

STORY OF STRANDING.

CAPTAIN'S CALCULATIONS

UPSET.

THIS MORNING'S EVIDENCE.

LINCHENG : CAPTIVES,

RELEASE EXPECTED

TO-MORROW.

THE CHINA MAIL.

General Chen believes that the |captives, will be released to

morrow....

"Everything Possible Done." "I think, gentlemen", Mr. Lewis safd in conclusion, "that you will be satisfied after-hearing the evid ence called before you that the course which was steered under the conditions which prevailed

TSAOCHUANG, Junc fi. was a reasonable, proper and sea- manlike course and I think you will The two bandit representatives come to the conclusion that the who came to Tsaochuang yester cause of the stranding as the day returned this morning with traordinary set-ah net of God which no seaman with ordinary General Chen.

·The Court of Inquiry--appointed-

foresight could possibly have foreIt is stated that the negotiations to investigate the stranding of the seen. I think you will find that should be compléted to-day. Indo-China steam Navigation Coin everything was done that any sea- pany's sis. "Kumsang "which could have done in the

circumstances.", want ashore off the Philippines on

Captain's Evidence. May 9, began its sittings at the

Captain Grant, was the first wvit- Harbour Office this morning. ness. He said he had been, in The Harbour Master (Comman-Jardine's service for some 15 years, tler Beckwith R. N.) presided and the other members of the Court were: Lieut. D.C.G. Neish R.N. (H.M.S. "Titania"). Capt. W. Davison, (marine superintendent of the C.P. S.S. Ltd. in Hongkong), Capt. E. Walker (master of s.s. "Haifoong") and Cant. H. K. Leitch master of the's.s. "Kiangsu) Mr. E, Davidson appeared for Messrs. Jardine Matheson and Co. Ltd., agents for the Indo-China S.N. Co. and Mr. D. J. Lewis for Captain Grant, master of the,ss "Kumsang." Mr. R. E.-A, Webster represented the Officers' Guildt.

China

having held a command for a little over 6 years. On this occasion he had been in command of the Kuusang" since February and during that period had been on the Amoy-Manila run, making. the trip about three times a month The "Kumsang" left Amoy for Manila on May 7, the vessel being in every way well found. She had 439 Chinese passengers aboard Before he and a general cargo. left Amoy a typhoon signal was hoisted showing a Typhoon in lat 20 . 123 E. travelling N.E. with Coasta radius of 60 miles.

After describing in detail the weather conditions experienced after leaving port, Capt. Grant stated that before the stranding

Wil p.m.

All the Chinese officials and Mr. Roy Anderson have been invited to the bandit headquarters to morrow, and it is believed that the usual Chinese celebration is to be held at the completion of the negotiations.

It is stated that Mr. Roy Anderson has been asked to act as guarantor for the agreement, and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the Shantung gentry delegates will arrange for the release of the prisoners. - Courtesy Chinese Daily Bulletin,

“TOMMY-ROT,"

CAPTIVES GLOOMY VIEW.

Amongst those present in Court were Mr. R. Sutherland and Capt.

Shanghai, June 10, Wheeler, shipping manager and

the 9th he A letter received yesterday fromi marine superintendent respective at 9.40 ly of Messrs. Jardine Matheson had set a course calculated to Mr. Musso, one of the captives of and Co. Ltd. and Mr. T. T. Lauren- carry the vessel 42 miles away the Lincheng bandits, is most

point where son. assistant secretary of the from the

she pessimistic. China Cast Officers Guild.

ultimately struck. He was on his Briefly describing the cirqum-way to the bridge when the vessel stances under which the vessel went was brought up all standing. One ashore Mr. Lewis told how the of the main valves in the cagine "Kumsang" left Amoy on May 7 room blew out but fortmately for Manila" every way fitted for no one was injured. a voyage in the South China seas," On the day the ship struck the sky. was overcast at noon and the ship's position hael to be taken by dead reckoning. There Chinese were occasional

rain

Tardy Response-to-Wireless The wireless operator sent out signals but received no reply. The

Mr. Mussa declares that the re- ports of their release within two or three days is "tommy Tot." They will be kept several weeks yet if things are not taken seriously.

CARGO STOLEN ?

ALLEGED THEFT FROM

LOCAL SHIP.

Three Chinese named Hui Fang, Chan Cheong and Ki Shek ap- peared before Mr. J. R. Wood this morning on a charge of larceny of 9 cuts, of rice.

Mr. M. M Watson told His Wor- ship that he was appearing for Messrs. Butterfield and Swiro and that the rice was stolen from the s.5. "Hanyang." Some complica-. Tiods had arison and he asked for was very possible that he would an Adjournment for a few days, I have to withdraw the case againat two of the defendants.

Mr. D. H. Blake appeared to re- present two of the defendants and Sub-Inspector Spear was in charge of the case for the police. Inspec- tor Spearsaid that defendants were found yesterday afternoon at tempting to remove a number of bags rice of into a sampan lying alongside the "Hanyang arrested they were on the deck of the ship. Two bags of rice had already been placed in the sampan.

His Worship then formally re- manded the case until Wednesday

morning.

When

VISCOUNT CURZON.

MUCH-ENDORSED MOTOR

LICENCE..

At Ginildford, Viscount Curzon, .P., os fined £3 for execeding the speed limit with a motor-car. '‚'

A policeman said Viscount Curzon Mr. Musso writes:"It is hell was driving at between 40 and 45 hereevery day, every hour and miles per hour. When told that he every minute. Some of thewould be reported ho saùl, "I don't bandits who are guarding us suffer want any more endorsements. I hoals were slung out and the from dysentery, two acutely, and have got so many on my licence passengers mustered another suffers from an unmention- that they are falling off." showers. and fitted with lifebelts. Atable disease. They use our towels: Mr. fancy, defending, said that There was a strong wind off the II o'clock in the moming glasses, cups, pillows, and drink Viscount Curzon was not really a land and after Paluda Point light the wireless operator got into touch from our bottles. There are mil-reckless driver, and always had con- house had heen picked up at 6:30 with the American steamer lions of flies, and the temperature trol of the car. He had been driv- p.n, the ship was held to a course "Atlantis City", which was the is 103. S. I E. which took her a little first steamer to respond to the closer to the land than she had messages which the operator had been sailing earlier. At this time been sending out all night. The the wind was blowing strongly Atlantis City" sent a number of from the E.S.E. and after bearings wireless messages to the ship's bad been taken from the light Manila agents informing them of Captain Grant-altered his course the ship's position. The first to S. 12. E The vessel weat, vessel that actually arrived was the aground at 9.40 p.m. on May U.S. Destroyer "Noah" which when the Captain was on his way came at 1.15 p.m. on May 10, to the bridge

Mr. Lewis said that after.. the stranding all that could be done to save the lives of those of board was done and Captain Grant wished, he said, to place on

record the very excellent way in very trying circumstances they found-themselves in.

which all his officers behaved in the

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"Mr. Solomon and I are sufferinging since 1903. from, malaria. While the Chinese Government are playing at politics we are suffering

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Sub-Inspector Robert Liigan, Mr. Musso concludes by describ- who has been acting Inspector for ing how the drunken bandits some time, has heen promoted occasionally fire their automatic Divisional Inspector in charge of pistols at random, constantly en-Yaumati district. dangering the lives of their cap-

tives.

COÚP FOREKNOWN?

STARTLING ALLEGATIONS,

Writing to the NC. Daily News from Peking on June 4, Mr. Rodney Gilbert said.

A Chinese investigator

All Passengers Landed. By noon on the tenth the whole fully landed in a small boat which of the passengers had been success- was pulled by a rope backwards and forwards from ship to shore. Everything was done to make the ship as secure as possible in the position she was.. Practically the

who re Mr. Lewis attributed the cause of whole of the general cargo was the stranding to "a very ex- later transferred into a Russian cently returned from Lincheng traordinary set of the sea which vessel. At 9 a.m. on May 14, the asserts that all the merchants in the could not have been anticipated or "Henry Keswick" arrived from Lincheng district were forewarned expected by anybody and which Hongkong with Jardine's marine of the holding-up the train which as we now know and could not superintendent, Lloyd's agent and they now admit, and that the local have known then, was

engineers from Kowloon Dock railway men knew of the bandit caused by

Salvage opérations were complans a full day before the event typhoon which, small formed to

of the menced and the vessel was floated and presumably warned Tientsin the west

After temporary and Peking. ship and took a somewhat unusual off on May 21, course running rather rapidly to repairs had been executed the was towed back to "Kumsang" the north east and which filled up to the North of Luzof." Neither Hongkong, arriving here on May the weather conditions aor the 27- barometer showed anything which could lead Captain Grant to know Questioned as to the cause of the of the presence of this typhoon and stranding Captain Grant said that no weather reports were received North of Paluda Point he had

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Why. It Happened.

This gives colour to the current: report that a telegram was received in the Ministry of Communications on the Saturday before the in- cident, which lay unopened until the Monday after the hold-up.

According to rumour this tele- gram was sent to both Tientsin

either from Manila or Hongkong. always noticed a set to the and Peking, advising the non-des- Some 12 hours after the strand-west. On this particular patch of the express from either ing, proceeded Mr. Lewis, the s.s. day there was a stronger westerly end. This story is denied by the

"Taiming," under Capt. Turnbull set than usual. There was no Ministry secretaries. was in these same waters and he indication whatever to lead him to experienced at the same place a expect a set to the eastward. The most extraordinary set to the east water around this coast was very which he was unable to account for deep from quite close to the shore. and immediately arrival He attributed the cause of the

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in Manila he reported

No Weather Reports. Commander Beckwith; Did you this stranding to the strong set expe-ask Manila for any weather reports?

to the Director of thefrienced between Paluda Point and-Yes I tried and couldn't get Weather Bureau there. Captain the place where she went-ashore through..

Turnbull was not in Hongkong but a set so strong, that the ship was Have you ever tried before? Yes he (Mr. Lewis) understood that he taken in 41⁄2 miles in a distance of arid we have had the same trouble. had made an affidavit before the 17 miles. That was an exceptional The inquiry was proceeding as President of the Court.

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