1932-05-31 — Page 11

TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1932.

Gallant Figure of the Sea

VILLAGE ROAD MURDER

THE CHINA MAIL.

Brave Scotsman's Life of High "Cheng Told Me Fung

Adventure

Was Dead."

ZIMMERN'S SENSATIONAL

EVIDENCE

Edward Zimmern completed his

Many, varied, and colourful are the legends. Mayhap, you may hear a curious, heroic tale in the saloon of the Penang steamer and reflect with a conscious certainty that the same tale is known to the crew of the solitary junk which, close reefed, evidence yesterday when the hear beats up on the lee shore. or perhaps you may case was resumed at the Central hear the name "M'Gregor" whispered as you pick Magistracy. your way among the broken bits of timber, head gears, and leats in the humid heat of some Chinese Kwok-ya. He alleged that it was port.

ing of the Village Road murder

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Zimmern detailed the last day he was with the accused, Cheung

Cheng who gave him the first newa;

All London Rushes To

Sell Gold

Recent High Price Releases Hoard

PATRIOTIC MOVE BY CITIZENS

QUEUES OUTSIDE JEWELLERS

SHOPS.

is

The recent rush throughout En- gold surface. But there was noth- of George Fung's death. Cheng, he land to sell gold, has been the ing brutal or clumsy about the also alleged, was in a very nervous subject of 'much comment.

treatment of these precious heir- state throughout the evening.

loams. With remarkable skill and "Having my family heirlooms speed venerable timepieces were re-

:

There is a legendary significance voyagers knew no bounds.

In Port Said an historic incident attached to the name of M'Gregor] in Chinese waters. And yet one has In Captain M-Gregor's career to search the archives of a musty still recalled as an epic of the 'war church library in an Ayrshire town years, to discover even a short record of

Aberdeen

Cheng gave him some money and told him to go to Canton, Zimmern carefully wrapped in a tissue paper duced to .mere shells, placed on Running the Blockade. averred. He did so and stayed in parcel, and perhars even more care- scales weighing accurately to the the truly amazing adventures of an In 1916 a destroyer, the Primula, Canton until Christie

came there fully concealed in an inner pocket, nearest grain, and their value in- Captain and told him to return to Hong joined the end of a queue outside

stantly calculated." maa, Captain

escorting James which WES

On his arrival here he was

My turn came soon. It was all! M'Greger, about whose person a M'Gregor's vessel, was torpedoed in Kang.

to a jeweller's shop," writes “P. L;" in over very quickly. I was out in the delicate but lasting, web of legend the Mediterranean. According to arrested, and later he decided

the Christian Science Monitor. "But, street again with twelve £1 notes in strict orders the procedure was to make a statement to the Police. hus been woven.

The case will continue this after fancy a queue! One expects to self with the thought of buying

my pocket case, and consoling my-| A full cousin to Sir David Mason, abandon a ship so struck and stop ex-Lord Provost of Glasgow. Cap for nothing, but Captain M'Gregor,

have to wait behind a crowd when some permanent acquisition for my order until night-i tain M'Gregor lived adventurously, who obeyed the

buying such things as tickets for new home. and his escapades, even in brief tall, was so stricken by the thought| summary, are stranger and more of the men left to their death that varied than the adventures embodied he disobeyed orders and

in the most famous books of fiction. ship about.

Link with Clippers.

put his

noon.

railway journeys, movies and foot-!- ball matches-bat hardly, at the jewellers."

"A large notice, sprawled over the shop window and hiding cases of

POLICE ORDERS. The King's Birthday. In the pitch darkness of the night The following orders have been Born in 1860, Captain M'Gregor he discovered the foundering ship issued by the Hon. Mr. T. H. King, first sailed in the Thermopyle, one rescued the crew of 75 offkers and Inspector-General of Police: of the most famous Ching tea clip men; and brought them, half-dead! pers, whose speed won them undying with cold and shock, through the Fume, lie then became un inden- cordon of destroyers guarding the will parade for duty in connection Bought Here. Top Prices Given. tured apprentice to the Salamis, in entrance, who had orders to let no with the King's Birthday Celebra-27/6d. To-day." In a tray bolow which vessel he sailed with several beat in at night under any circum- tion on Friday, June 3, 1932;---- other apprentices, all of whom be-jstances. Running the blockade, the came masters in later years.

indomitable

Captain M'Gregor joined the Glen safely.

King's Birthday Celebration,

| precious sparkling stones, explained The following Police Reservists It rend: "Sovereigns and Old Gold the presence of so many customers.

there was a strange, jumble of gold

members of the Chinese Com- objects-bangles and chains, old- Captain reached port pany to parade at Central Police fashioned jewellery and trinkets,

Stption at 8.50 a.m. to draw arms.)

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Line in 1880, and serving the Linc Morning came. The presence of Dress:-White uniform. sunhats, tiaras, spectacles, and medals for for 48 years until his retirement, he his boat in harbour appalled the belts and truncheons, became Commodore of the Line. By authorities, and accordingly he was 25 members of the Indian Com-bravery and for accomplishments in his strength of character, outstand arrested and sent for court-martial!pany to parade at Central Police sport. So this was part of Britain's ing ability

as a seaman, and his But M'Gregor stood his ground. "Station at 8.50 a.m. to draw arms. "gold rush," about which everyone conspicuous bravery in times of war will not," he said, "be tried by Dress:-White uniform, sunhats,

seemed to be talking." and peace, he won a high place anyone but the Admiral." among seamen of his time.

belts and truncheons.

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Sentiment and Patriotiem. In due course Sir Rosslyn Wemysa! 12 members of the Flying Squad!

"But doubt seized me as I realised In the Near and Far East his came to preside at the trial; evid-to parade at Central Police Station should soon be parting with my position was most remarkable, not-ence was led, and M'Gregor was at 3.50 a.m., to draw arms. Dress: Tather's gold watch, chain and ably among the Chinese, who re- asked to retire while the Court con--White uniform, sunhats, belta sovereign case. 1 recalled the hard) garded him with devotion and residered its verdict. In a little and truncheons.

fight I had had with myself the occasions he saved while he was recalled. spect. On two

Should I Bell members of the Reserve evening before. the lives of Chinese, and for these "Captain M'Gregor," said the Emergency Unit under Sub-Inspec- them? Now was the time, with gold and other actions he was made free Admiral, "If instead of arresting tor W. V. Field will fall in out-apparently at its peak price. Ought of every port In China.

you they had given you a salute of side the Supreme Court Building, to keep these souvenirs for senti- Even although Great Britain and 21 guns, it would not have been too on the west sids at 9.15 a.m. sharp mental reasons? There was that China should be at war, Captain | much."

}Dress:-Khakl helmets, shirts, dent in the side of the watch-my M'Gregor, flying the flag presented

shorts, puttees, belts, holsters and first tooth mark, I had been told. to him by the Government, could Next day Captain M'Gregor again revolvers,

Yet just as good a dent could have come and go as he pleased. His stood on his bridge. As the old

Chinese Company.

been made by a bang on the edge life was full of extraordinary ex Gleniffer steamed out of harbour, all Strength. The following have the clumsy turnip din't got of the mantelpiece. And anyhow periences, including the boarding of the naval ships were beflagged and been taken on the strength of the hadn't told the time for years. So derelict ship, which, like the dressed, with sailors and officers in Chinese Company as from May 20, what was the use of cluttering up notorious Marie Celeste, held a crew uniform. The bands struck up a 1932:-Constables R58 Yung Wing the house with sentimentality? Be- brave tune, and the crew of every pa, R59 Molin Yue, R60 Kwan Sik-aldes, it was patriotic to sell idle vessel of war in Port Said cheere cheung, R62 Lam Shu-tak, R63

of dead men.

Crew of Dead Men

Gesture by Navy.

st the

·

It happened in May, 1883, when, unrestrainedly as the brave Captain Mak Hong-kwong and R64 Tam geld at the moment, I had read in as chief officer on board the Glen-came abreast and passed on his way. Moon-lin.

yesterday's paper." carn, 650 miles S.W..of the Maldive He was probably the only Cap-! Training Course-Part II-All "Nevertheless, I still felt an in- Isles, he sighted a ship, which, with tain, too, who heard his own burial recruits will attend

clination to slip away out of the torn and slatting sails, drifted to service being read. The occasion Chinese and fro on the lazy swell. Captain was when he descended the hold of ters to-day at 5.30 p.m. for instruc-ported to have sold his gold crown Company's Headquar-queue and save the heirloom. Then I thought of the Duke who was re- M'Gregor volunteered to board her, a vessel on fire, held by a rope. The tion. and set off with the ship's crew. rope, however, was burnt through, Revolver Practice Revolver of great age. That must have been As they drew near the derelict and when he recovered conscious practice will be carried out by a wrench for him. But he probably ship the stench became almost in-ness the first words which fell on members of the Chinese Company certainly received a lot of money for didn't wear it very often, and he tolerable, and it was only

over his ear ware the words of his own on the Kennedy Road Range to- powering curiosity and indomitable burial service.

morrow at 5.30 p.m. under Sub-it-something like £10,000. I won- will-power that drove him to in- There was another occasion when Inspector A. L. Hopkins. Mem-dered if he had stood outside: a vestigate further. The sea for hun- he was felled by a spy in an Italian bers will assemble at the Range at jeweller's shop as I was doing. Of

dreds of yards was alive with port, and his cabin

oars,

ransacked. that time.

course, not. Dukes never did busi-

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aharks, ao bold that they attempted Three vessels were boarded on the Training Course-Part 1-Allness in that way. He had probably to reach the men in the boat, and same night, his own and two others, recruits of the Chinese Company asked some Bond Street firm to bit off the blades of many of the and both the other Captains were will attend Central Police Station send round a representative to settle

done to death. Bleeding from a for Squad Drill on Thursday, June the price." Reaching the derelict, M'Gregor serious wound th his head, he lay 2 at 5.80 p.m.

£10 for Dog Lead. caught the lech of the foresail and on the floor of his cabin all night.

Indian Company,

"My thoughts were interrupted swarmed on board. He found the He suffered permanently from the

Strength Constable R269 by a neighbour in the queue" 'entire crew dead. The bodies lay wound on his head.

"Did you read about the man who per discovered he was using a gold

Zig-Zag Convoys.

Ghulam Mohamed has been

Flying Squad.

Constables R813 R. C. Wilkinson

"I admitted I had not. So he told me how a South Wales faria labour

about in all attitudes, and not the Because he showed a little kind-mitted to resign from the Indian chain as a dog lead?" he asked, me. lenat dreadful fact was that the ness to a wretched prisoner of war Company, as from May 20, 1982. action of the cargo of salt which he was clapped into a Spanish had broken loose and become damp. dungeon in Cuba, but on the inter- had preserved them as they died. vention of the Government he was R801 Choa Hing Ki and R838 A. Wattached to his dog's collar to al

Appointment-Lance Sergeants er showed a dirty-looking chain After reading a short burial ser released.

Mooney have been promoted to the jeweller. He was promptly offered vice M'Gregor sank the ship, re- moving the log and papers which Many, other thrilling incidents rank of Crown Sergeants as from £10 for it. At one time it had also were given to the Harbour Master featured his eventful career, parti- May 27, 1982.

been used to hang a picture. in Singapore, who in turn passed cularly in the Far East, where,

"I've got a bag of sovereigns them on to the Portuguese Consul known on every route, his fame be- and R817 Cheng Yew have been here," foined in the man just be

promoted to the rank of Lance Ser hind me. "I collected them before Plague Ship Sequel.

came legendary.

geants as from May 27, 1982. A curious. coincidence was 3880- A most gifted man in many

the war It became legal to hoard clate with this incident, because spheres, he was Commodore of the

Revolver Practice. - Revolver gold coins after 1914 and 1 believe years later when he took command, North Atlantic Convoy. His ex practice will be carried out by I could have been imprisoned for he had on board his ship a Portu-perience in this branch of work was the Kennedy Road Range on I'm told I'm doing my country

members of the Flying Squad on not paying, them into a bank. Now guese grandee, his wife and daugh such that the Admiralty adopted ter. He became very friendly with his zig-zag course for all convoys Wednesday, June 8 at 5.50 Dan service by selling them and helping

under Sub-Inspector A. L. Hopkins. One day only the Don appeared cargoes is a text book on the sub-Range at that time.

the storing of Members will assemble at thatha sterling exchange as well as in the saloon at the breakfast hour ject.

them.

His booklet for

and again at lunch. Naturally per And he was buried within sight turbed, the Captain asked if they of the sea that he loved so well. were ill. "No," said the Portuguese, The flags the red ensign of the they keep this day as a fast day, Glen Linsent from headquarters a saint's day, to pray for the souls in London, draped his coffin,

of certain relatives who died at sea; symbol of the trust which he won and for that unknown British officer and kept. had

who gave them a decent Christian Captain M'Gregor Isa burial He then briefly reapitudied as recentl

lated the story of the plague

When the Captain "reveal

he was the man, the

hat become part

of our National

liberating unproductive money. At the same time I'm making a good Sgd. D. L. KING DA.P. (B.) profit for myself.

OPEL

But now our section of the queus was fhilde the shop, Peering/over a crowd of heads, I caught my first

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