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Hong Kong, Thursday, April 10, 1930.

NAVAL DISASTER.

Į

The men who were killed in the explosion on H.M.S. Sepoy on Tuesday died, as it will probably go down in the ship's log, "in the performance. of their duty." It was an honourable death, if not

an heroic one; not heroic because it came suddenly and without warning, so that we may feel gratified to know that to most of the victims the end was without pain. It was an accident and, as euch, must have had a cause.

men,

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1930,

SEPOY VICTIMS' FUNERAL.

IMPRESSIVE SERVICE AT CEMETERY,

Asiatic Petroleum Co. (8.C.), Ltd., Hong Kong Yacht Club, Naval and Military Y.M.C.A., British Women's Association of Shanghai, China Mail and Sunday Herald.

There were also wreaths from the foreign warships in, port, Vigilante (French), Mindanao (American), Adamastor (Portuguese), and Sebas- tiano Caboto (Italian).

All Young Men.

The names and ages of the victims were as follows:-

Gunner L. G. Reed (31).

P.D. Walter Belderson (31). A.D. Thomas Edward Smith (20), All, James Noel Redmond Cooper

(27).

There is an opportunity here for the public of Hong Hong to show the sincerity of its regret by subscribing to a fund in aid of theac unfortunate dependants, and the China Mail shall be glad, in the absence of action by any

BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTES. other section of the public, to re- ceive contributions for this fund, Amidst the deep qulet of the evening,

whilst over ane thousand particulars of which will be found with bared and, bowed head, the bodies men stood

on the front page of to-day's of the alx victims of the accident issue. We understand that alaboard H.M.S. Seroy were laid to rest by Service colleagues in the Nuval and charity football match has already Military portion of the Protestant been arranged for the benefit of Cemetery at Happy Valley, yesterday the bereaved relatives, which

The funeral, which was, of course, could form the nucleus of a gen-necorded full Naval honours, was most impressive in its solemnity, the scene eral public fund.

An official statement issued this We shall be at the graveside when the Rev. G. H. merning states that a message has been glad to know the views of our Hewitt. R.N.. read the servire being one received to the effect that H.M. the readers.

that will long linger in the memory, King has directed that enquiries be The volce of the Chaplain carried clear- made on his behalf as to the condition |ly to all sections of the large gathering, of those injured on board H.M.S. Sepoy. whilst the profusion of colour in un!- A reply has been made deeply regrot- forms and in the great mass of wreaths |ting to report that the deaths of the blended most harmoniously with the une officer and five of the six ratings restful green

of the sequestored hill-injured have taken place.

The sixth rating injured, P.0. skle.

Reginald John Pitt. O.N. J1607, is pro-

News in Brief

Yesterday one case

of typhoid fever, one of smallpox, and one of diphtheria were notified. A were Chinese.

afternoon.

A.B. William James Angus Draper

(22).

A.B. Robert William Heywood (21).

His Majesty's Sympathy.

creasing favourably.

American Sailors' Message. The following messages have also been exchanged.

A Long Procession." The funeral procession had earlier lined up outside the Royal Naval Hos- pital, the six gun carriages being drawn Mr. J. D. Minhinnette, of 2,Headed by the firing party, with arms by men of the 8th Destroyer Flotilla.

From Squadron Commander, U.S.S. Ashley Road, has reported to the reversed, and then a Marine Band

Black Hawk, to Rear-Admiral, Horg Water Police Station that some per- with drums draped, the procession Kang, son between April 4 and April 7 marched slowly past the Monument. "The Commanding Officers and men stole a blanket, valued at $10. Following the gun carringes was an wish to thank all the British Officers escort in which every warship in bar-and men for the many courtesies ex- hour was represented including the tended to the squadron during its stay Vigilante (French), Mindanao (United in Hong Kong. This squadron extends States of America), Adamastor (Porto the Sepoy its sincere sympathy in tuguese) and Sebastiano Caboto connection with the unfortunate sccl- (Italian).

dent which occurred yesterday."

A report was made to the Police that

passen gor 2

on board the Empress of Russia named Jefferson Mosley was missing from the ship from 9 a.m. yesterday.

Besides this there were many Naval The following reply has been sont commissioned and warrant officers, to-to Squadron Commander, U.S.S. Black The compradore of the ss. Foo wether with men from all the milltary Hawk from the Bear-Admiral, Hong Lee reported to the Police yesterday units in the garrison, the Royal Air Kong, that on Sunday a thief entered the Force, Police Force, and members of "Very many thanks for your kind "T" hold of the vessel and stole the Service and the general public who message from Commanding Officers and three bags of green peas worth $35.joined in at the Monument. The whole men. We wish you good luck and ben

procession was over half-a-mile long.voyage."

Arriving near the cemetery the Rand The forthcoming wedding is played Chopin's "Funera March," announced of R. D. Gall, engineer of after which the coffins were lifted from the China Navigation Company's the gun carriages and carried into the

cemetery.

Kalgan, and Hilda Mario Martins, en route to Hong Kong from Australia by the 8.8. Taiping.

Convicted on a charge of the larceny of three planks of wood, Wah Cheung Building from the Contractors, at Chatham Road, two Chinese, one stated to be an em- ployee of the Hong Kong Excava- tion, Construction and Pile Driving Co., were at the Kowloon Magis- tracy this morning sentenced to alx

pre-occupation with a contem- porary matter; it may even have" been made by the chemist before him. But these desiderata nota.s. withstanding, a man whose work lies in the manufacture of such dangerous materials must feel a grave burden of responsibility and if he be honest, realise that he may be, directly or indirectly, responsible for any fatal accidents that may occur. The lives of hun- dreds of able-bodied men are in his hands, actually and not figuratively, for it is with his hands as well as his brain that he creates the infernal machines. It is a hard task to impose on the conscience, perhaps, but a man who realises his duly to his fellowmen should never continue a task fraught with so many dangerous possibilities unless he feels, in himself, that his brain

weeks' hard labour each.

Prof. Wan Wan San

- Shows Us How.

SOMETHING OUT OF NOZZING

Last Rites.

After the solemn service and committal prayers came three volleys from the firing party, the "Last Past," and "Reveilic," and finally the "present arms" from the firing party, with the whole assembly standing to attention and officers at the salute.

The Mourners, Among those present were' Capt. Swayne, A.D.C. to His Excellency, the Officer Administering the Government,

JP. CHARGED

(Continued from. Page 1.) Continuing, his Worship said he was afraid Mr. Strellett could not convince him that the onus was not thrown on the defence under the presentation to prove his innocence.

tion that the common law makes, Mr. Etrellett: "With the excep-

I suppose.

Mr. Lindsell: But the Ordinance is the exact opposite of the com- mon law rule.

Presumption.

Capt. D. R. M. Cameron, A.D,C. to His Excellency Major-General J. W. Sandl- Dealing with the question of lands, Captain Mark-Wardlaw (Cap- presumption Mr. Strollett asked tain of the Destroyer Flotilla); En-for guidance on the point, from gineer Captain Aitkenhead (Fleet En-the bench.

every

CHEAPER LIVINGS?ncer Officer) and the commanders of Mr. Lindsell said that in his destroyers in harbour including Com-opinion the presumption of the mander J. M. Porter (H.M.S. Sorapis),

Ordinance went beyond Commander Vercamith (ILM.S. Thracian), Lieut. Commander Crossely other assumption, (H.M.S. Somme).. Lieut. Commander In his anal appeal to the bench, Crawford (ILM.S. Sirdar); Pay Mr. Strellett said that he would Master Lieutenant Commander submit that the prosecution had Pasmore and Commander Binney, discharged their duty and further If one could fish cigarettes from secretary and staff officer respectively that the defendant had satisfied and hands are working in perfect thin air, and not a number of birds to the Rear-Admiral; Wing Comman- the Court on practically every from the same source, the cost of der Stecle-Perkins; Mr. W. Stoddart, co-ordination. Supervision, how-living would be reduced to almost G. Gunner, Mr. F. Barnes, Bos'n, Mr.

point.

ever penetrating, can never be in-nothing. But, surprising It may H. J. Peters, Signal Bos'n, Mr. P. H. himself with the luggage closely. The defendant had assecinted fallible, and a certain amount of Bound, this was achieved by Pro- Olding, Warrant Telegraphist, and Mr. trust must be placed in the in-fessor Wan Wan San last night in H. Dewey, Commissioned Gunner, all He had admitted that he was in

the Theatre Royal.

of H.M.S. Hermes; Mr. E. D. Scrivens, posscasion from the beginnlag to dividual. If he fails to live up to

"His answer to your The Professor and his troupe of Commissioned Gunner, Mr. A. Tink, the end. that trust he cannot be said to be wonder workers gave an excellent Commissioned ShiSpwright, Mr. F. G. Worship is that it was not worth doing his duty Better to starve performance, and literally held the Mr. S. W. Ford, Warrout Master at that he has gathered up by a life Bunker, Warrant Telegraphist, and bis position and the little things them to perform such a work in to finish.

audience in a trance from the start Arms (H.M.S. Tamar); Mr. G. E. of hard work, to go and walk into the knowledge of inefficiency.

Williamson, Commissioned Gunner and this trouble. I ask your Worship The programme was varied and Mr. W. S. McMath, Warrant Engineer to say that he has given a rea The accident has naturally cast every item was a novelty in its own (H.M.S. Sandwich).

The Professor, with his Others present included Mr. F. Smithsonable explanation, and that he a gloom over all ranks of the way

piquant English, was most enter and Mr. A. Malo, representing the is entitled to be discharged. Royal Navy, which has lost by talning. With nothing in his hand Naval Armament Department. Naval would remind your Worship that the deaths of six of its personnel and no cigarettes in sight, yet they Yard, Mr. C. Brown, chief of the con- this is the first care under the structional department, Naval Yard, new Ordinance and the public men who were comrades in a not floated to him one after another. fr. Benham, electrical engineers de- wants to know what the attitude overpaid or always enthralling them, the Professor threw them out F. H. Haynes, Army Ordnance Depart

After gathering about a dozen of partment at the Naval Yard, Mr. of the Court is. The public ex-

task.

4

.

(Mail and Sunday Herald);

Beautiful Wreaths.

Was

I

you have to say with regard to this quesion of presumption under the new Ordinance.

evidenco as

was not

matter of very gincere regret They were all genuine!

It has likewise been a to the audience for them to sample. ment, and Mr. Jas. T. Dobble (China Pects to hear from this Court what

Then he waved a fish net in his It is understood that a younger amongst the public, which is al-hand until a beautiful white pigeon brother of the late A. E. Smith ways appreciative of the work of came into being. And not satisfied, among those at the funeral.

Mr. Strellett also pointed to the The nature of that cause, which the Navy in peace and in war. with one bird,

fact that certain people were not this versatile at the moment is not known, will Indeed, it has often been felt and magician netted four-so as to make

stopped by the Revenue Officers. There were several hundred wreaths "Whatever view your Worship probably be determined when the expressed by humanists that work a good meal, he said.

which included the following:-.E-take with regard to this case it Admiralty enquiry is made. It the nature of which is potential of a display of splendid juggling and ment (the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern, some opinion on the fact that this The audience was then treated to the Officer Administering the Govern is hoped that you will express may have been due to negligence danger, such as coal mining and acrobatic stunts. Mr. Mok Man-C.M.G.) and Mrs. Southern, Comman

and Lady Walstell, very valuable evidence on the part of one man or several service is the Royal Navy and the hing, a student of the Eastern der-in-Chief

either in the munitions' Merchant Marine, should be as Black Art, also gave an excellent Rear-Admiral R. A. S. Hill and Officers brought to court.".

Case One of Facts. factory or in the manner in which highly paid as any trade or pro Houdini-had they been present General J. W. Sandilands), Staff and cass I have made myself, clear.

turn. The great Dr. Nicholas and of H.M.S. Tamar, General Officer Com-

manding, South China (H.E. Major- Mr. Lindsell: Throughout this it was handled. It requires little fession. But it is the pleasure of might have envied this mystifying Officers, Headquarters, Commanding The cabe is entirely one of technical knowledge to perceive those that ordain in these magician.

Officers, Officers and Ships', Companies facts and not of law.. I do not the truth of the old rhyme matters, apparently, to consider

The Iron Boy,

of H.M.8. Hermes, Bruce, Bomme, propose to make any further com- The most pleasing aspect of last Sepoy, Sterling, Stormcloud, Thracian, "Through loss of a nail a battle the brain of greater economic night's performance was the fact Seraph, Sirdar, Herald, Serapis, Mara: ment except to say that on the As was shown in value than the body. That, and that with the exception of the Pro- zion. Tarantula, Moth, R.F.A. Franco, Lannigan this morning. I cannot was lost."

given by Inspector many instances during the War, the question of which serves fessor and Mr. Mok, the other per- Officers and Airmen of 11.4. Flight, conceive that the defendant could

Wing-Comdr. A. H., Steele-Perkins, the careless arrangement of the better the community, cannot be from Boy, for instance, was easily of the R.A.F. Base and the Fleet Ale this luggage on to the wharf. formers were boys and girls. The.M.S. Hermes, Seamen and Airmen be such a fool as to have brought charge in a shell, an error indecided here: *

the star among them all. Breaking Arm Units, S.M. 18, Naval Longue. Defendant is therefore discharged. adjusting the delicate machinery The emotion evoked by the sea pile of three thick bricks on his officers and other ranks, Somerset of a timed bomb, led to a number cident is largely, apart from the of disasters which not always initial shock such events always found their way into the news- bring in their train, one of aorrow papere. Where the fault is due for the bereaved relatives. But to the manufacture of the ex sorrow in itself, though consider plosive machine, it is well nighed a virtue akin to altruism, and impossible to trace the person good for the soul, is of little prac- Throughout the responsible. Although the apper tical value, unless it be directed to music was supplied by a Filipino

archestra. Altogether it was vision in losives: tories is a definite and We may presume night well spent, and it is pleasing both keen and thorough, credit is that the widows and dependants to announce that the performance Bometimes

to and

of the victims will be com

will be repeated to-night. placed

by the

Sir Herbert Walker, general man the Southern Railway, ha

long service and

We come

Ithrough Il-health

emp

performance

Ten Years Ago

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Jaw, and then lying on a bed of iron Light Infantry, 2nd Battn.. Argyll spikes and having a huge piece of and Satherland Highlanders, Royal En granite broken on his chest, is a gineers, Royal Artillery, Commander of feat not easily accomplished even by Dockyard and Staff, Chlet Constructor the great Sandow.

Cat and Star, Chief Engineer's Depart cluded spear dodging, award dance sincer and Staff, R.N. Torpedo Denot Other items, all equally good, inment, Superintendent Electrical En- and the death leap.

(Kowloon), E.N., Dockyard Recreation Club, Royal Naval, Yard Police, Morn bers of Agreement Employees Associa- tion, H.M. Naval Dockyard, Inspector Police Force, Upper Levels Police Sta Wanchal Power Station of the Hong General of Police and members of the We also hear that the men at the tlon, Garrison Sargeants Mess, Police Kong Electric Company, quit last Recreation Club

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The Peak Tramway fitters quit. § yesterday. The engineers, it is said, are stil, staying on.

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