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Yesterday afternoon Mr. E. W. Hamilton and a Coroner's jury held an inquiry into the death of a coolie of the Royal Naval Dockyard.
FRIDAY, FEBRUÁRY
7, 1930
SAILING SHIP'S
PASSING
PILOTS HUMILIATION
[By Commander F, G. Cooper, R.D, RN.R.]
Bledical evidence given by Dr. A. "Alas, must ye utterly vanish and for use. entering and leaving
Cannon, who held the post mortem examination at noon
on January 19, was that the body, identified as that of Tam Hung (45), Was generally well preserved, but the abdkmenal organs were congested. In view of certain information he had received he sent the organs to the Government Analyst.
Mr. E. R. Dovey, Government Analyst, doposed to examining the man's stomach on January 20, and amongst its contents he extracted 20.5 grains of arsenic. A fatal dose of this poison would be two grains. Mr. Robert Taylor chargeman at the Naval Yard, deposed that with the view to exterminating rats in his office, he placed some arsenic on a piece of bread and left it there. He had obtained the arsenic from the Naval Armament Department for the specific purpose of poison- ing rats.
Half an hour after leaving the bread on his desk, witness returned to his office, the door of which was not locked. Then he found the piece of bread missing. Witness immediately want to look for Tam Hung, (deceased) the office cleaner, and made some inquiries from him. Tam admitted having been into the office to clean up, but denied that he ate the piece of brend, in spite of the fact that witness warned him twice that he would die if he had local wharves a scheme that eaten the bread. The following day would have made Hong Kong onc died.
Tam was absent from work, and
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LACK OF ENTERPRISE
Hong Kong has been a British
of the finest ports in the world-i The jury returned a verdict of and the procrastination which death by misadventure, the cause of has been a feature of the water!
death being arsenic poisoning. supply scheme, to indicate some of the causes which have retard-i ed the growth and economic expansion of the Colony.
has
RAILWAY FATALITY
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cease from amidst us, Salls of the olden sea.
harbour, and for making headway in calms, the revival of the
Alas, muat ye go as a dream and sailing ship it only 48 Д
depart as a vision,
school for training resourceful and Salls of the olden sea?"
efficient merchant seamen, would be a progressive step, and one of con- alderable advantage to future gen- erations of seamen, both officers and men.
-Stephen Phillips. THE dignity and posperity of the
T Empire was founded and en
dures by virtue of her sea-borne The continuation of
commerce.
that commerce depends upon ships, and men to man them, skilled crafts men, and not marine mechanics, to whom the phrase "brotherhood of the sea is meaningless. The love
of the sea, to which some men and nationa so rapidly respond, is not an ephemeral smotion, but a deeply rooted Instinct, enduring, like eternity, and not to be required by service in steam or motor-driven vessels.
It would also ensure that n suth- clent number of officers would be available to qualify as piints for our various ports. The Corporation of Trinity House, the chief pilotage authority of Britain, demands proof of service in sailing ships be foro granting licences to pilots, and as we no longer possess those use- fui craft prospective Trinity House pilots have to endure the humillation of serving under a foreign flag in order to serve the requisite period in sail,
· Service in Sail
It is not reasonable to expect in men so trained the same ré. source, self-reliance and initiative Germany, Holland, Scandinavia, as is to be found in those subject- | Finland. And other maritime ed to what Conrad termed "the nations demand service in aniling austere servitude of the sea" en- dured under sail, and having regard to the numerous recent references deploring the passing of the sail ing ship, I feel that I am not alone in urging this plen for the reten- tion of sall training for our mer- chant seamen.
Britain alonu among maritime nations has abandoned the sailing ship. Germany, France, the United States, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Fin- land, Poland, Scandinavia and some of the South American Republics retain their faith in sail training, and have large fleets of sailing ships which, we are justified in assum. ing, are operated with some de.
•Even gree of profit.
se revolu tionary a country as Soviet Russin possesses at least one square-rigged vessel for training purposes the one-time British ship Lauristan,
I now named Tovarisch.
Against Revival
The circumstances attending the In regard to the delay which quired into yesterday by Mr. T. S. death of another Chinese was in featured the construction Whyte-Smith and a Coroner's jury programme of the water supply at the Kowloon Magistracy. scheme, it has been wrongly employed in the Kowloon-Canton The Chinese was a carriage oiler argued that the consideration of Railway's yard at Hunghom. He
The attitude of British ship the fact that forty years of the met his death by being crushed sail training. There are murmurs owners is hostile to the revival of 99 years' lease upon which ar-between two carriage buffers at the "on "Change" that it is not an rangements the New Territories railway shed.
economic proposition, and that it is were placed under the control of post mortem examination, said that clock.
Dr. J. E. Dovey, who held the putting back the hands of the the British Empire having ex-there was a large tear on the chest, shipowners of those other nations It is to be assumed that pired, has acted as a paralysing Three ribs were broken and pushed are a body of patriots operating hésitant to the local authorities. against the left lung. Death was sailing ships at a loss, for the pur-
due to internal haemorrhage.
to
Why
ships of all candidates for a master mariner's certificate. Steamship companies like the Norddeutscher Lloyd demand at least ong year's eea service in sail of all officers in their employ, and, in addition to this service, offers of the German merchant navy before going to sea must serve for two years at one of the State nautical schools.
the
The King has honoured ancient craft of the sen by creating the position of Master of the Mer chant Navy and Fishing Floets, and by appointing to it the Prince of Wales. With this recognition and honour we should surely strive to maintain our position as tho premier maritime nation of the world, for that position is our It cannot be maintained heritage. without seamen, and to have seamen we must have ships, salting skips, the cradles of the seaman's throughout the generations, ships which bred those men who gave to us our Empire.
Ten Years Ago
[From the "China Mail" February 7, 1920.7
art
To-day's dollar is worth 5/- 10%.
talked during the week-end about the A good deal of nonsense has been distressing accident by which a indy golfer knocked out a sailor's eye. Some people scelled to be more sorry for her than for the sailor. It is, of course, very unpleasant for Mrs. Maitland, but no one dreams of blaming her in any way. Our sympathy should be for the poor sailor, who will presumably have to leave the Service, probably without a pension. Although this is
It cannot, however, be argued
pose, of supplying their countries An oil wiper said that he was, with sail-trained officers and men? similarly that the abandonment working with the victim in a car-If we reject such an assumption, we of the wharyes development riage of a train which had just come are justified in believing that those scheme was due to any such standing in front of the buffer when both necessary and economic.
the yards. The latter was
nations regard. the aniling ship as imaginary obsession. A full suddenly the engine moved forward could it not be so to Britain? analysis of the motives operating and the man was caught between Under modern conditions
the buffers.
of the Government action în this
equipment, including motor power matter (as in other affairs where the man's death was caused through The engine-driver deposed that schemes of public development a faulty lever. He had put it in have been held up), would involve reverse to back the engine after itated by a handle on a wheel which the first accident of the kind we know 80 questions of considerable delicacy-suddenly went forward.
had been uncoupled, but the engine worked on the screw prinelple, of, there have been many
forcing the lever back and forward. haves, and the China Mail suggests years. Possessed as it is of a fine One is at times even led to the. Mr. J. Smith did not agree with
In view of this evidence, the there will not be another.
that it is worth while arrango that natural harbour, considered to disturbing reflection that not the this evidence, Intimating that to his Inquiry was adjourned for the should be
No-golf allowed have greater potentialities than Government, but vested interests, knowledge this could not and did Coroner and jury to examine the after noon. It is the appy Valley any other port in the Far East, it control
not happen. It was impossible for lever and have a demonstration of Service lads have non-progressive the lever to slip as it was manipul- its working. is surprising to the outside ob- server, and more so to the for- eign competitor, that it has not been developed to any greater extent.
Possession for well
over
this
Colony of ours.
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These may be matters for in----- vestigation by the permanent officials at Home-common they are in the administration of When one realises that this all British Possessions-yet wel area was once part of the Chinese feel that if the system of a local Empire and again considers that electorate were authorised by the
narrow
for recreation, whereas the golfera have other places.
MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
"The Largest Ship Afloat": Sculpt or Of General Dawes: Fame For Savoyards: Another Shavian Trick
AND · GROUPS A FEATURE China is suffering from the lack present Home Labour Govern- "Queen of the Seas"
of good harbourages and ports ment, it would be one of the best IT must have been a little gall when the United States, Shipping school is still freak and full
they were identical whips, but The music of Offenbach and his of along her coast, it is not to be and most productive measures ing to Mr. Stimson, the Ameri- Board took over the Leviathan melody. Also to the modern genera- wondered at if she casts covetous ever undertaken by that much can Secretary of State, and his after the war they docked over the libretti are so hopelessly out of tion it is practically unknown. But eyes in this direction. It is a maligned Party in connection with legation to the London Navaled the gross tonnage from 54292 enough. It would be better in most colleagues of the American De- certain open spaces and thus rais- date that mere re-writing is not matter for conjecture, however, its Overseas and especially its Conference, to be told that they
to 59,967: what she would do in the way of Far Eastern policy.
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News in Brief
call for same..
They had booked: passages in the White Star liner Olymple, aalling frem, New York recently, but at the instance of Mr. Fred
.
It is on the strength of this ingenious device that the Levia- than is now described, though er- roneously, as "Queen of the Seas."
cases to scrap the plots altogether, and use different ones in, neces- sary, a different period.
The acquisition of a West End theatre is being seriously contemplat-
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Mr. Shaw's Wedding Gift IN the list of those, who had sent cheques as presents on the occa- son of the wedding of Miss Peggy Leigh, daughter of the Hon. Roland Leigh, handicapper to the Jockey lub, to Mr. Charles Graves, appear- ed the same of Mr. George Bernard Shaw.
That gimple announcement masks a typical Shavian wittician in the form of a letter to the bridegroom. In excusing himself from being
Bernard Shaw
haver attended that (a) ho
A few days ago a £5 note was fact that enormous untapped re- dropped in the premises of TungBritten, Chairman of the Naval An American Sculptor's Visit sources lie fallow in China await- Lee, money changer, mixt to the Affairs Committee in the House MR. J Davidson, the Amerkan sculptor he is most Arm about lng development; that great Kashmir Slik Store, Queen's Road of Representatives Oongress has the Jo being spelt without the Anal quantities of minerals, coal and Central. The loser is requested to decreed that American officials who is in England to make a
must travel in American ships.
bust of General Dawes, is not, as iron are simply crying to be open-
Like so many Americans. Mr.
has been stated, paying his first ened up; and that, where develop For keeping a sly brothel at a Britten is apparently
visit was in London for quite a time under the lle ments in this.connection have house in Shanghai Street, a Chinese delusion that the Leviathan is the in 1916, and even in those days he taken place, it has been under woman was at the Kowloon Magie largest ship afloat The fact le, had quite a young man, a bush
black beard. He frequented the old Ithe initiative of foreign conces. tracy: this moraing fined $50 or however, that she is substantially Cafe Royal, and did some buste, of present at St Margaret's, Mr.
one month's hard labour in default, smaller than the Majestic.
Gross theatrical favourites, including one tommage is misleading as an in- of Miss Phyllis Monkman, Chan Shing, Chinese Chief Officer dication of size. It merely
Jo Davidson was then making his had no clothes suitable to the occa- and (b) he headquarters in the ·South of of the 0.8. Kau Sing," was found to signifies the amount of cargo
sion and had been informed, France, where his wife was interest-
by
his attack of Blaess, while travelling enclosed space in the ship were be unconscious following a sudden which could be carried ́ ́ if ́every
taflor that the cost of an appropriate ed in a hospital for wounded officers, suit would be Afteen guineas.
He therefore suggested that the.. yesterday on the Yaumati ferry filled to its utmost capacity.
aum which he would have Man Shun. He was takes to the
ave Axpended in order to fit himself for attending the wedding should be employed Government Civil Hospital, where
by bé died.
the bridegroom in purchasing a suit was made out with typical original- for social purposes and his ebeque ity, for ifteen guineas sterling." One hope that the bridegroom wi
At first, sight
Early Opera Bouffe
sions, one is led to the conclusion that they would have done far less in respect of the development of this Colony than has been achieved by the British.
This however, is no excuse for the lack
THE success of the Gubert and of enterprise which has repeated
Displacement is the only true Sullivan sezon at the Savoy is ly revealed itself in the policy of
test, and as the Majestic displaces currexitall of such earliz.opers tempting certain enthusiasts to dis succeeding Governments of the Captain RH. McLaren, Royal 64,000 tons and the Leviathan bounes as The Grand Duchess, ony. We have only to give an Engineers, stailóned at Tientsin, has 05,100, the Brliish vessel fa larg- "Fal" - "Fille de Madame: Angst
suspension of the received happiness of stall be natural, chaperontain: that there har keer gevolguiness, lig, donbloons, aivo, da lin
Is also & ft. and other works of that type it is be able to cual it. 8), the War Office. longer and 1 flɔ deuper. Leawall so Home this month to take. Dr. Ernest Foerster who demand Die supply from Americach belongs to the picture
Against "JazzyTM musical shows of pression of a form of legal tender up his duties.
signed both vessels, 72 states that seems to be drying sip.
the development
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