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KONGMOON INCIDENT,

Chinese Owners And Court Sequel.

Mr. James R. Wilson, the munter of a Chinese owned 'ship, owing to representations as to the lives of himself and subordinate officers being endangered and to there being no food abourd, left his ship at Kongmoon and together with his officers returned to Hongkong. This morning he was the plaintiff in a case in the Summary Court. He sued his owners, the Cheat Wo Steamship Company, for $1,000

(salary and value of personal property loss).

The facts, as disclosed in evid ence, were that the ship (the Leung Kwong) was ordered from Hongkong to Kongmoon by her owners on July 9. On arrival there everything was apparently quiet, but the erew deserted. The master asked a British ship in port to stand by, but the reply

came back regretting inability so to do and the ship in question left for Hongkong.

Mr. Wilson flew his distress signal but, in spite of there being a British gunboat in the harbour, no response was forthcoming. Shortly after the purser came abcard and told the master that his life was in danger and that he had better leave the ship, As there was no food aboard and no crew, the master took his papers, and ship's ammunition to the Customs House and returned with his officers to. Hongkong,

Cross-examined by Mr. D. McCallum, who represented the owners, Mr. Wilson said that he engaged European officers andre- ceived $700 a month with which to pay them.

Mr. McCallum: As master, you were monarch of all you sur- veyed?

Witness: I suppose so.

Mr. McCallum: Do you suggest that the purser who came aboard and told you your life danger was the agent of the Company?

was in

Witness: Yes, he took the place

of the compradore on that trip.

Mr. McCallum: Are you in the habit of taking orders from the! compradore?

Witness: Yes."

Mr. McCallum: So far as dis- cipline is concerned? Witness: No..

IN ENEMY WATERS. Mr. McCallum: When you got to Kongmoon did you consider you were in enemy's waters?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. McCallum: So far as the ship is concerned, did you con- sider she was captured?

Witness: No, I know the ship was all right as she was Chinese- owned.

But our lives were not safe.

Mr. McCallum: Did you desert her?

Witness: No, I was obliged to leave.

ANOTHER RUMOUR,

TRUTH ABOUT HONGKONG

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A story which was being freely ing was that "boys" of the Hong- circulated yesterday and thus mor- kong Chip had endeavoured to leave Canton in a boxy, had been caught, ill-treated and robbed gul sent buck to be placed in jail at Cantori

According to enquiries made at the Club this morning the story as said that the officers were pro- bar boys had been stopped in a junk it had reached there was that six mised more wares if they would when two hours journey from Macao take the boat to Kongmoon. He and had been all-trented and de fully expected them to return with inined. the boat to Hongkong, and when they came back without her, he one sent the compradore up to take charge.

Crossed-examined by Mr. Hay wood witness said that it was untrue to say that he caused the ship to be sent to Kongmoon knowing that the crew would de sert and in order to save money in connection with port dues.

Mr. McCallum: Would you

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According to the story of turned. this report

bir boy who had

correct, the China Mail" was informed. This boy said that there were no others with him when he was stopped in a junk in which he was trucelling from Houngshan to Mues. The junk was delayed two days and during that time the cross-examined. He was allowed to proceed with

passengers were

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Sha Wan

an O.P.C Torban Shell Frama

CAPTAIN'S BODY IN POOL OF BLOOD.

SAILOR'S HOME DISCOVERY.

Futile Effort To Stop The Flow.

European master mariner under peculiar but tragic circumstangas. The death occurred at the Sailors' Home, West Point, of a

The deceased was Captain' The discovery that something W. K. Richardson, late of the s.shad occurred was made on Tues Confucius, which is at present met the gaze of an lamate whe day morning when a pool of blood. operated by a Chinese firm at was a window. of Bonham Strand.

Captain Richardson" had been report was immediately made to room occupied by the Captain. ·A

staying at the Sailors' Home, Des of No. 7 Police Station, who Divisional Inspector Peter Grant, Voeux Road West, since last Fri-visited the Home with Sergeant ! day, and he was apparently wait. Fender. ing for a suitable opening as a ship's master. on one of the local vessels,

He was last seen alive by the assistant superintendent of the Home at 10 o'clock on Monday night, and he then appeared to be his usual self.

WORLD'S LARGEST LOCOMOTIVE.

The largest locomotive ever made, shown here, asfaat, passed first tests, at Pittsburgh, where it was built by the Westinghouse Plectric and Manicary Company with fying colours. Some idea of the tremendous size of the rail giant la given by camperrison with the 300 men who were employed in constructing it. The locomotive is 152 feet long and de boll in three sections so that it can take sharp curves safely. It weighs 1216,900 pounds, or 037 tons, generates 7,125 horsepowers, and exerts a maximum pulling force of 277,500. Each of the driving wheela is more than five feet in diameter and the cabs are 20 feet high and more than 11 feet widos When, going down hill, ahead of long strings of coal cars, the locomotive will generate power and turd it back into the transmission Inc. It is the first of 36 ordered by the Virginian railway for its $15,000,000 electrification project between Mullens, W.. and Roanoke.

consider your ship safer in Hong-other passengers eventually, his kong or Kongmoon?

Witness: In Hongkong.

to the

In his final address Bench, Mr. Haywood said that having failed to get assistance from anyone, the master had no option. He was compelled to leave. Had he remained on board he would have been in peril and it was up to him to bring his fellow-officers to Hongkong in safety.

Mr. Haywood asked His Lord- ship (Mr. Justice Wood) if he could impose a penalty on the Mr. McCallum: Were your owners for wilful default in send- orders.to take her to Kongmooning the ship to Kongmoon? and leave her there?

Witness: If they had been we should never have gone.

Mr. McCallum: Were you in- formed by the purser that your lives were in danger?

Witness: Yes,

Mr. McCallum: He told you

purely as a friendly act.

story to the pickets being that he WR going on his business to Mucao,

There could be no question of Club, boys leaving Canton en bloc, the "China Mail" was informed, as the lames of some only were at Canton, and those of others at Heungshan and many other dis triets." It had been understood from two cool boys who returned that a few other cook boys in Canton wished to return, but so far they hnd not put in an appearance. The two who lad actually got through had done so by junk, .

CAPT. NEVILLE.

LEAVES FOR HOME TO-MORROW.

COAL CRISIS.

THE GOVERNMENT'S MEMORANDUM.

HUGE SUBSIDY INDICATED.

(Router's Service.)

deceased lying on the floor in a The police officers found the

pool of blood with two broken lemonade bottles beside him. The upper part of one of the bottles, which had broken with a sharp point, was found embedded in the right foot, and this had severed an artery. A sponge rag wound round the foot indicated that the deceased had made an unsuccess. ful attempt to stop the flow of bload by bandaging the wound. One of the heads of the lemonade bottles was found outside the window. I was clear that the deceased had attempted to open the lemonade bottles by striking the heads against the window sill and in doing so dropped a frag- Iment on to his bare foot just above the slipper.

None of the inmates appears to have heard any cries for help from the deceased, and his ac- cidental death was only discover ed in the morning.

The body was removed to the public mortuary, and the arrange- ments for the funeral were made by the superintendent of, the Sailors' Home.

The deceased is said to have been about 50 years old.

LAW AND JUSTICE.

MR. BIRD DRAWS A DISTINCTION.

-BUILDING LIABILITIES.

The Supreme Court "building" case in which the award of the Hon. Mr. H. W. Bird as an arbitrator is questioned, drew to a close before Sir Henry Cowper Gollan yesterday, and judgment was reserved.

:

London, Aug. 5.

Mr. Jenkin, for the plaintiff, An Explanatory memorandum who asks that the award should of the terms of the Coal Settle be set aside, said yesterday after- ment, which has been published, noon that his case was that Mr. says that the enquiry should be Bird's award was made with completed in good time before every intention of doing justice His Lordship said that there

May. 1926, and points out that as between man and man, was no evidence before him to

while the Government's assist- '· but that in 20 doing he show that there was such wilful

ance will enable more pits to work allowed himself to be carried default. The question resolved

and more men to be employed away by the usual practice in- itself into one as to whether, in

than if the 1924 agreement were stead of abiding by the contract. AN UNFOUNDED BUMDUI. abandoning the ship, the master

continued without assistance; and

Mr. Bird: I may be wrong in was right or wrong. It seemed Rumours that have circulated as will enable the industry to work to him that the master had aban-to the departure from the Colony at the same costs, prices, and law but I am quite sure my award

was just. doned the ship in his own inter- this week of Hin Excelleny the scale, as if the coal miners' pro-

...

Witness: No; he was in league ests and how could he come back Governor must have had as their posals had been carried out, it The Hon, Mr. C. G. Alabaster, with the owners to get our money on the owners for his losses? He origin the immment departure of provides no guarantee that all the closing his case for the contrac stopped.

did not believe that there hadhi A,DC, Capt. R. A. R. Neville, pits will work, or that the "pits tor in whose favour Mr. Bird had Mr. McCallum: He was nice to been

a conspiracy against the R.M..., who bas booked passage closed will be re-opened, Better found, argued that it was no rea you?

plaintiff.

Home by the Empress of Australia trade will automatically diminish, son for upsetting an award to Witness: Yes, n man who Mr. Haywood then asked for and tavus to-morrow..

the amount of the subvention, state that an arbitrator did not wants to do himself a good turn time to look up precedents and Both by reason of his important while worsening trade will mean consider a point which was not is usually very nice.

consider his client's position and post and his keenness and that the subvention, though at a taken. The arbitrator had made The evidence of the master hav. this was granted, the case boing honey at polo he was boretary higher rate and be protected from up his mind at the time of the ing been corroborated by Mr, adjourned until to-morrow. of the Pole by Cupt, Neville was indefinite increase by being re-arbitration but he had said that it Thomas Aberdeen Nicholas, the A similar action by the Chief well-known figare in the Colony stricted to a smaller number of was a mind open to consider any METAL ROOFING Chief Officer, Mr. McCallum ad. Officer of the ship was then heard, and hong is in a better position to, the result being the closing fresh arguments which might be

dressed the Court, contending and the case is proceeding,

raised. testify to the never failing courtesy ECwn of unranustrative pits.. that the purser could never have

shown by him to all who hud oces been the agent for the company

Adequats Safeguards. "

In his final address to His sion to call at Government: House

Lordship, Mr. Jenkin said that it and in a position to discharge a

The Government has satisfied than the local Press representatives themselves.

was impossible to say that there that ship's master in circumstances

they such as these. Once a ship had‍

His presence here will be missed adequately safeguarded against justice when an arbitrator took have had been no miscarriage of and the China Mail cchoes the the possibility of the amount of his judicial seat and then said, been deserted in this way she be-

sentiments, of all residents in wish the subvention being improperly Now look here, this matter is Samples and particulars on applicationcame a total loss and the master

ing Capt. Neville a holiday at Home increased by the undue lowering decided and unless you have fur- made himself liable to an action

none the less pleasant by rison of of prices, or charging against ther light to shed upon it I shall by the Company,

At the Kowloon Magistracy this of recent origin and a successful equipment, development, etc.,

it being delayed through the strike Exchequer Discussion here ensued between morning, before Mr. E. W. Hamil future in whatever sphere of which are not properly charge-

expenditure upon decide against you. counsel (Mr. G. R. Haywoodton, an. Annamite pantry boy of activity to which may be called able to the revenue costs. The being for the plaintiff) and it was the French steamer Angers.-Was pointed out to Mr. McCallum that charged with the unlawful passes nature of an indication of His Ex-surveying the whole position, and FOOCHOW'S SUPPORT.

His departure was not in the memorandum concluded, after Sections 157 and 158 of the Mersion of an automatic pistol and ten elleney's imminent departure, he with all reserves for incalculable chant Shipping Act could not be rounds of ammunition.. made to apply in the case of a The focused was given a good sentative this morning His Ex- cided to ask Parliament at pre informed a China Mail repre factors, the Government have de master, 4

character by an officer of the vessel, cellency's intention was to remain sent to vote 810,000,000. If this povedatel

The Hon. Mr. Holyoak has res and His Worship took a lenient at Hongkong for at least another fg insufficient, further authority

am from Foochow Vew of the offence by imposing a month. No news had been received will be sought from Parliament

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