1934-03-13 — Page 9

TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1934,

ALLEGED

WRONGFUL

DISMISSAL

Wireless Operator And

S.O.S. Message.

THEN TOLD TO SAY NOTHING ABOUT IT

The case in which Captain Lau- rence Nelson Beer, former master of the s.s. Kamo, of the Foo Hang Steamship Company, made a claim of three months' salary, amounting to $1,365, on grounds of wrongful dismissal, was continued this morn-: ing at the Supreme Court before. Mr. Justice A. D. A. MacGregor.

Mr. H. C. Macnamara. in- structed by Mr. G. K. Hall- Brutton was for the plaintiff andį Mr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed by Mr. W. A. Mackinlay was for the defence.

Captain

Beer Was further cross-examined by Mr. Sheldon

"Radio Priest"

Money Hearing

Father Charles E. Coughlin (right), famed Detroli priest, as he testified before the House Colnage Committee in Wash ington, urging support of President Roosevelt's monetary pro- grain. At left, Representative Andrew Somers, chairman of the committee.

ROTARY CLUB

TIFFIN.

regarding details of the trouble Dr. Y. Y. Tsu On Chinese between witness and the officers.

He said that Mr. Williamson had told him in his office, when he. made a complaint about the con-! duct of the Chief Officer and

Culture.

THE

RESCUE WORK FROM SUNKEN

SUBMARINES

(Continued from Page 1.)

CHINA

To-day's Short Story.

ENTIRELY

IMAGINARY

Squire.

ONE of the characters in Philip Blisk had written

Ne book is based upon any novels. The fret war the treuel

person known to the author": thing: a description of his shcool. "the personages in this book are and undergraduate days-which entirely imaginary." How often, was rather melo-dramatised." but sometimes even with the qualifi-bore some relation to facts-coupled cation "in whole or in part," do with the account of sundry "adven- we not see such notes as those fures," and a violent amour, which prefaced to modern novels! They might easily (as he told Himself)} do not always carry conviction, have actually happened, though, In especially when the reader is well point of fact, they did not. acquainted with persons un- His second novel, written after he mistakably portrayed but even had been in London for two years, when they are mendacious, they working in the Civil Service and may help to avert libel in palpa-dining out a little as a presentabk ble cases, or disarm suspicion in and interesting young man, had con- more doubtful ones.

tained less of autobigography and And, mendacious or not, such an-more of observation, less of hectic nouncement of course helps to give dream yet more of true imagination. the impression that here at least is His third bad compelled the

a really creative story-teller, a critics to admit that here was novelist who has no need to resort coming author. Callowness had to the tricks of the mere photo-gone; no longer was it evident that grapher, since he has a brain which each character must be somebody teems with lively populations of its whom Phillp personally and Inti- own engendering

mately knew or largely conjectured Sometimes an author knows that from the newspapers, for types were he has copied from life, Some-drawn. Something that promised a If it were thought by the men times he does not know it. And in general panoramic view of English] fimprisoned in the sunken submarone recent instance he had and had Society, with the nature and weight SEALED CAVE IN KAN SU

Ine that attempts were going to bent and knew it and did not know. of all its characteristic constituents A puzzling remarks? But listen! clearly appraised, was being ap- Chief Engineer, that "he would tiffin at the Gloucester Buildings there would be a grave danger against one of the difficulties in

AL the local Rotary Club's weekly made to raise the submarine, there Mr. but here we are at once up proached. have something to say about it." to-day an address on the Study of that. in spite of their training in qucation-what am I going to call if witness "logged" any of the Chinese Culture was given by Dr the use of the escape apparatus, about to record? officers,

Y. Y. Tsu, Secretary of the National Further questioned. witness said that he was offered employ-

Christian Council of Shanghai. they might be tempted to await reasons which will presently be ment as Chief Officer to Captain Martin, Professor at the Sun Tat instead of saving themselves by to call him, say, Aldous Woodhouse, Visitors to the Club were Dr. the result of salvage operations, plain, give his real name. Were I Jones as punishment "for nearly having an accident,"

Sen University, Canton, Dr. McKen-means of the apparatus. He had

I should obviously be asking for been told by Mr. Ramsay, the ie, Acting Professor of Physiology

Lrouble. Yet if I just put down the Orders were therefore being Company's superintendent, that at the Hong Kong University, and

first name I think of as it might "I will give you back your com. Mr. O'Connor. Mr. M. K. Lo pre- issued to the effect that salvage be, Philip Bliss-how can I be cer- mand when it suits me."

sided.

organisation for the sole pur-

tain that there is not a novelist of pose of salvaging submarines

that name who will at once suspect innocence would not be retained.

sou in an interview on behalf of tent and conflict, but if they were

escape gear.

Davis

SALVAGE PRESENTS NO HOPE

the novelist whose tribulations I am

be

1

cannot for

near

not face a long search

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "Intrigue," by Mark Chan- ning.

At

Na-

Interview With Mr. Williamson. the present unsettled conditions in In his address Dr. Tau alluded to

The "Daily Lantern" had · sald:) "Here, if we are not mistaken, "is a Mr. William Kirby, Hon. Secre- China, and said that it might ap- Lary of the China

A signal was being introduced tish Museum and make sure.

I could, of course, go to the Bri- novelist in the making. The "Week- Coast Officer's pear to outside nations that China Guild, said that he saw Mr. William was just a sexthing mess of diseon sunken submarine that surface ves-there were several Philip Blisses fault, is a novelist by vocation." But ly Sentinel" had said: "Here, un- which would tell the crew of the if I did, I should probably find that less our ju gment is gravely Captain Beer. He suggested as an to dig below the surface they would sels were present to rescue them who wrote novels; or, if not that, The "Monthly Review" had said: alternative to reducing Captain Beer, find that a great deal of construe when they came up by the that he might be suspended.

at least a Philip Biss, a Philip Bless "Here, though we know the fate that itive work was going on. Witness said that Mr. Williamson)

and a Philip Bless which would awaits prophets, is a shrewd obser Dr. Tau referred to the excellent admitted that "there was something archealogical work done by Sir Orrell

enough to be dis-ver of life whose next book should between the Chief Officer and the Stein in the Valley of a Thousand facts," said the First Lord. "There catalogue in that great musty rotun-turally, with such encouragement, "The Admiralty have had to face queting. Besides, I really could place him in the very highest class Chief Engineer to get the Master in Buddahs in Kan Su.

of that of living, English novelists." While, ex- trouble."

ploring in this valley, Sir Orrel is no hope of saving life by salvage, da of the reading room, where you Philip Bliss did his level best with Mr. Sheldon asserted that no such Stein found a sealed cave,

and we have come to our decision, cannot smoke and the smallest bis- his fourth book. hint as to conspiracy between the contained many old Chinese records because it is in the best interest of

cuit has to be eaten furtively. So other officers and the master

He was thirty. He already des- was dating back to 1500 R.C., and it was

submarine, personnel." made by Mr. Williamson.

Referring to the building I shall chance it, and call him Philippined the dreadful crudity of his from these records, some 400 of

twenties. "Experire" now came He said, which were purchased-by Sir Orrell ramme, the First Lord said that

to him in auch volum that he knew something about the Chief Officer and taken to the London Museum, the total cruiser tonnage to be laid being "out of luck" because he was that much of what is known of old

he could never catch up with down this year was 32,000 tons. being sacked.

Chinese culture was learned.

This represented a portion of 86,350 NEW CHAIRMAN FOR Counsel--"I put it to

you that!

LONDON C.C. you are mistaken."—"I am not mix.

Witness "There was,

taken."

which

pro-

tons available under the London

piled thut they could make headway Naval Treaty for three years to and beach the ship if necessary. 1936, inclusive, and was in accord. Further questioned, witness sald He was of the opinion that the unce with the carefully considered that he made the suggestion about ship had struck a reef or a sand Admiralty policy of replacement– Captain Beer because it was highly bunk, but not a floating object. to pursue the steady annual

gramme of construction.

predjuiced to discipline for the mas- ter to serve under his former mate.": Wireless Operator's Evidence. Evidence

Why Addition Was Made. Witness said that he made the addition "truck obstruction, Ocksew Island" on the harbour office entry WRS also given By form because a similar entry

WAN

BRITAIN'S POLICY

pro-

Bliss.

He was already on the verge of that

pleasant and enlightened period of} middle age in which erry new per: son one meets falls at ce into some

Lord Snell's New Post category of persons already known In life or books, and behaves as we London, To-day.

expect him to behave. The new Chairman of the London. County Council has been chosen from outside its ranks.

',

ed him to send an "S. 0. 3." sign-tween the Captain and the other such a limitation, and it would be al. Witnessed then refused to doofficers on board. so without a written order.

Mr. Williamson impossible for them, on the eve of "Tomotsuru" Victims. the fob in the Home Office-aedu- next day Captain Beer asked him spiracy oxisted, but this was

The had suggested to him that such con- the 1935 Naval Conference, largely to say "nothing about it."

Rawnovald Ellefsen, said that he

Macnamara,

not

to increase their building pro- gramme on the assumption that the Conference was going to prove a failure. Moreover, Britain had al-

•..

He would soon be able to create! a Cabinet Iinister, a coquette, a hostess, a theatre proprietor, a Britain, he said, had made great He will be the Labour Peer, Lord Charwoman ́s cabman, who would; reductions in her defences in the Snell of Plumstead, who was a mem- be a clear. t person and typical, Chak Kwok Ming, the wireless made in his log and he considered hope of bringing about a general ber of the Courel from 1919 to without being deliberately based operator of the 8.8. Kamo. He it his duty to report it. There was

limitation of armaments. It could 1925, and Labour Member of Parlia-pon any one person whom Philip said that half an hour after the no question of trying to get the be argued whether this has incident at Ocksew Island, Captain Captain into trouble

been ment for East Woolwich from 1922 had actually met,

Over the fourth novel he took the Beer came to his cabin and order-that there was any conspiracy be were still trying to

He denied rightly or wrongly done, but they to 1931-Reuter,

extra trouble that his sympathetic | bring about

critics asked him to take. He work ed on it for he had now thrown up

lously for two years whether in the Bayswater fiat or· the Jimsons' cottage near ye, or in Lady ́ Aly berta's villa at Antibes. When he had finished it he was pleased with It. It gave, he flattered himself, such a plebire, realistic but not Tokyo, Earlier cynical, of London Society fourteen years after the war; as none had yat The casualties resulting from the wreck of the Japaness torpedo made; and without a sign of the boat, “Tomotsura" are still unthink that their own little set is all monomania which makes people available, but it is generally re ported that 113 mostly recruite, London. One thing only worried were aboard at the time of the him. He had taken only little bits. dianter, including five officers and felt comfortably, assured that of actual people for his characters, The construction of the vessel neither they nor anybody else would was only completed on February 23, and she was commissioned on

ever know it. March Reuter

true.

Questioned by Mr.

was acting Chief Officer of the 8.8. witnessed denied that he had been Hal Ching. He had seen breakers dismissed from Messrs. Burns, ready put forward proposals for about 600, yards west of Ocksew Is Phillips, because he was drunk qualitative limitations. →→ British land, and he would say that these He said he was not employed for Wireless Service,' were caused by a roof,

five years after 1927 because he hadj

Questioned by Mr. Macnamara, given up the sea. witness admitted that it was singu-

Further questioned, witness main-

Jar that such dangerous breakers off tained that the ship struck some- Ockaew Island should not be men thing like a reef or rock, but not a tioned in the Admiralty charts. He submerged junk. The ship became{ did not report the matter to Mrimmobile after the impact. Williamson, who was the Manager of Counsel-"I put it to you that the

the Douglas Steamship Company, ship was never near the Island et but informed his commanding officer." Then I must be blind if I Captain Stewart, immediately he can't see an island 150 yards away.. sighted the breakers.

Chief Engineer Called, " Peter Cairns, the, Chief Engineer

Chief Officer's Evidence,

Increased Estimate Causes Alarm.

(Continued from Page 1) LEANDER ARMAMENT SETTERED

Two other big naval coun tries, he said, had built Several 10,000-ton cruisers more heavily armed than the Leander class,

(Continued from Pags 1}

113 Recruits And 5.Officers,

How could Georgie svar The Tometary" was at exercise

ably guess that one of |with other units of the Japanese Navy parties had been That was the reason for the mystery surrounds the tragic happen part in chapter when the disaster, occurred,, Complete the groat and

abled and absolutely deserted.

from

a mediev

The Chief Officer, Mr. Thomas of the s., Kamo, said that his im- Brown, said that he held a Master's pression of the Ocksew incident was appearance of the new class of ing. Only a few hours after she had ticket, and was formerly employed by that the ship had struck something cruisers with armament compar- been in ireless communication with been turned into an Messrs, Burns, Phillip and Com-The phip, he said, was about 100. pany, of Sydney. He had been to yards from the Island at the time.

to the new cruisers of other other ships she was found totally dis house sea for over 20 years. Maka D He denied that he was de-rated He had Just Jeft the bridge on the on his return to Hong Kong because night of the Ozksew Incident and he bad been drunk, and Assorted www in his cabin when he fell that I have never been drunk oump. He went on the bridge and was met by the captain who seemed

the

He also dealed that there was any US conspiracy between him and the Captain and any of the

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