1935-06-07 — Page 9

SHIP'S OFFICER IN TROUBLE MISCONDUCT CHARGE

UPHELD

CERTIFICATE OF COMPETENCY

SUSPENDED FOR 2 YEARS

"We adjudge that Mr. Patrick Scully was guilty of gross mis- conduct. and taking into consideration a previous offence for.which he appeared before the Marine Court, we adjudge that his certificate of competency be suspended for a period of two years." said the Hon. Comdr. F. G. Hole, RN. (Retd), who presided at a Marine Court of Inquiry this morning to inquire into the circumstances sur- rounding the charge of misconduct brought against Patrick Scully. formerly Chief Officer of the Macao River Boat s-s. Chuen Chow.

Comdr. Hole was supported on the bench by Lieut. Comdr. E. H.C. Branson. RN. (H.M. Dockyard). G. G. Runde, Master of the ss. Rhexoner. A. W: Muir. Master of the ss. Tung On, and L. B. McCaw, master of the ss Sui An

Medical evidence by three doctors, including the Acting Deputy Director of Medical and Sanitary Services. Dr. D. J. Valentine. firmly established the fact that the defendant was under the influence of liquor at the time of the incident which led to a charge against him by the Master of the Yuen Chow.

Mr. Thomas Browa said that,

he was master of the sis. Ynenį.

chew and held a certificate of DUTCH CROWN PRINCESS TO competency.

On May 2 last the ship was

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scheduled to sail for Macao at Fulfilling Her Duties As Godmother pm but Mr. Scully, the first mate.! had failed to put in an appear-

ance.

At 2:05 pm the owners brought a substitute. whom witness took to the Harbour office to sigh oz. Oa arrival back at the ship, witness saw Mr.Seully at about 230 pm. He was on the ship's bridge deck and appeared to be under the in- "tinence of liquor and not capable

of performing his duty. made an entry in the ship's log to that effect.

Witness!

In answer to Mr. Muir, witness! said that his was not a dangerou run and that he, made, two trips daily.

In answer to Mr. Randle, witness]

aid that Mr. Scully had only been with the ship for four days, having been signed-on on April 30.

MEDICAL EVIDENCE

anj

Dr. D. J. Valentine, Acting Deputy Director of Pablic Sanitary Services, said that about! 230 pm on May 2 he was called; ◊ to see an officer

on the Macao wharf.

He went

the down to wharf, boarded the Yuen Chow and saw the officer in question. Mr. Scully was standing by the rail! outside his cabin "I watched him for a bit and then engaged in cor- versation with him and came

to

the conclusion that he was not in a fit condition to perform any of his duties. From what I saw of him

I came to the conclusion that he was intoxicated.”

Amsterdam, Today. The Princess Juliana of Hol. land will shortly arrive in Ger- many at the invitation of the. hereditary Prince of Welth ac- cording to the “Algemeen Han- delsblad."

The object of the Princess's visit is said to be to attend the

christening of the Prince of Weld's fifth son, to whom she is godmother, which takes place on June 25.---Trans-Ocean Seri rice..

Formal evidence of notification!

THE CHIRA MAIL FRIDAY, JUNE 7

Lord Byng of Viny, former Canadian Governor-General and ex-Police Chief of the London Metropolitan Area, died yesterday in London at the age of 75.

SEX WAR IN

To-day's Short Story.

THE END OF THE STORY

By John O'Hara

vibrations the Be was to falls, fres tra (Tommy Lake's Royal tie was daintily soiled from his Collegians, a Gibbsville band) babit of touching it between ges- reached the smoking-room, and tures of the sto His clothes

which

the youngest people in the room were good, but he had been born began to hum "Something to in a tiny coalmining village, or Remember You By."

"patch" as these villages are call The young men addressed the ed; and Reilly himself was the first girls: "Dance" and the girls said: to say: “You can take the boy out "Love to," or "Sa-well” or “Uh- of the patch, but you can't take the huh. Slowly the room became less patch out of the boy-*-* crowded. A few remained around Reilly told stories in paragraphs. one fairly large table in a comer, While he was speaking he would by common consent or lean forward with an arm on his eminent domain, or something, was knee, like a picture you have seen. conceded to be the Whit Hofman) of a cowboy. When he came to the crowd's table.

- lend of

the paragraph he would Harry Reilly was telling a dirty look quickly over his shoulder, as story in an Irish brogue, which was though he expected, to be arrested made slightly more realistic or before finishing the story: would funny by the fact that his bridge finger his tie and close his mouth work, done before the Reillys came tight, and then he would tam back, into the big money, did not it too to his audience and go into the] well, and Harry as a result always next paragraph:

So, Pat whistled faintly when he spoke said............” Reilly had a big, jovial white face, It was funny to watch people grey hair and a big mouth with listening Harry telling a story. If shrewd they took a sip of a drink in the and small and he

was beginning middle of a paragraph they did it ¡to get fat

CANTON MORE

EMBITTERED this lips. His eyes were Women's Restaurants Attacked By Roughs.

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Young Canadian Goes Round A Bit

slowly, as though concealing it. And they always knew when to laugh, even when it was a Catholic Joke. because Reilly signalled the pay-off line by slapping his leg just before it was delivered.

When

had everyone

laughed (Reilly would look at each personi to see that he or she was getting it), he would follow with a short history of the story, where he had heard it and under what. circumis- tances; and the history would lead The world's champion stowaway to another story. Everyone else One recently arrived here. He has usually said: "Harry. I don't see the how you remember them. I bear a but I never can think of them." Hairy had a great

Canton, To-day.

SEEING LIFE AF 16

Vancouver.

Better protection by the police: is asked by the proprietresses of restaurants, two of which were rej cently molested by ruffians. proprietor of a eating house was travelled 40,000 miles around

also assaulted. just because he em- world and it has not cost him a lot of stories. ployed several waitresses.

penny.

It is supposed that the outrages! He is Eugene la Framme, an 18 reputation as a wita witty Irish-

Two mazz were perpetrated by some of the year-old French Canadian.

ness.

see the

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Vengeance Of Moma. Kano," by Gowan Gillmor

Witness said he judged Mr.waiters who are jealous of the years ago be resolved to Scully to be incapable of being in restaurants owned and served by world. He left here and walked to charge of a ship in the state he was women. The battle of the sexes Mexico, doing odd jobs on the way. in at the time of his admittance has now assumed greater bitter-After Mexico he walked to New

York and then

Halifax on to into the Hospital, `·

The South-west. Executive Com- There he stowed away on a ship and of Mr. Scully's absence from the s-smittee of the Kuomintang will got to London. He walked all over Yuen Chew and the signing-on of pass judgment or the merits

of England and Scotland and then be The came homesick for Canada ... a substitute was given by the the case on Monday next. Boarding Officer, Mr. T. G. Cooke,

The motor-ship Pacific Grove was women oppose the suggested 20) per cent quota of employment in sailing from Glasgow to Vancouver. eating-houses and insist on equal-La Framme thought he would like

Julian English sat there watch- to travel in it. So he went Mr. Scully, having no witnesses, ity with men.

to ing him through eyes that he per- said he wished to go into the bor Propaganda on behalf of the Glasgow and hid himself in the holdmitted to appear sleepier than they to give his evidence.

women" is доя conducted by He was discovered when the ship feit. Why, he wondered,

- ACCUSED'S EVIDENCE

:

did. he

"I admit the charge entered Woman's Daily, & new paper de- was 300 miles out at sea and was hate Harry Reilly? Why couldn't

against me.

I am very sorry in-voted to the interests of women enlisted as a deck hand. deed that this has happened and and their welfare Miss Soo Han- might say that for several months sheng, a lawyer, retained by the AUSTRALIANS TOUR previously I have been without Waitress' Union, told press report-

liquor.

I have come to the con-ers that Dr.. Sun Yat-sen advocat- clusion that I cannot stand it and ed equality and freedom, which Dr. J. P. Fehily. Port health officer, who accompanied Dr. Valen-why I very seldom drink.

even one drink upsets me; that is should be applied to women.

It was tine to the ship and who also came more or less a casual slip on mý into contact with the defendant.

part I now realise for the first Dr.j gave corroborative evidence.

time that I cannot stand drink and HELP FOR YOUTHFUL Fehily also mentioned that he and have definitely made up my mind Dr. Valentine took Mr. Scully to the to resolve not to drink while I am

UNEMPLOYED Government Civil Hospital, where in Hong Kong I leave myself to he was examined by Dr. G te mercy of the court," he con- Thomas, the Medical Officer.

EXAMINED AT HOSPITAL Dr. G. H. Thomas said he was) Medical Officer at the Government Civil Hospital on May 2, when he admitted Mr. Patrick Scully.

cluded.

In answer. to Comdr. Hole, defen- dant said he had appeared once previously at the Marine Court on a charge of drunkenness, when he He made an examination of the was reprimanded defendant and found that his The Court passed sentence breath smelt of alcohol. The de- stated above.

fendant also talked in a rambling manner and was very unsteady on

LATER DEVELOPMENTS

his legs. "He asked me if he could have some Guinness's Stout-j

I put him to bed and he slept until the next morning.”

ASSAULT CASE

as

Recommendations At Geneva

BRITAIN

Song And Dance Displays

To commemorate the tenth year

The stand him?

there What was about Reilly that caused him to say

to himself: "If he starts one more

of those moth-eaten stories T throw this drink in his face?" But he new-be would not throw. this drink or any other drink in Harry Belly's face. Still, it was fun to think about it..

(That was the pay-off line of the

of Anglo-Austrian walking and story: "Old maid goes to confes- skiing tours, arranged by the Nasion, tells priest she has committed tional Union of Students, a party a sin of immorality. Priest wants of 12 Austrian students are now to know how many times. Old maid

engaged upon a three-months tour says, once, thirty years ago but of British schools. The young Faa-thurr, I like to think about students are giving displays of it.")

their national folk dancing and Yes, it would be fun to watchi folk singing. The entire tour, take The whole drink, including the ing the voyagers through England, three round-cornered lamps of ice Scotland and Wales, is being un-At least one lump would hit Beilly dertaken by motor-car.

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in the eye, and the liquid would splash all over his shirt, slowly wilt- ing it as the Scotch and soda trickled down the bosom to the crevice at the waistcoat. The other people would stand up in amazed con-

So would Elizabeth Gorman, laugh-

MIXED RECEPTION,

*CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Geneva, To-day.

Spurred on by the moving ap- ipeal made on Wednesday by a de-l Blegation of youthful unemployed. (Continued from Page 11 the Labour Conference began al The Hong Kong, rainfall for the fusion. Why, Ja" they would

general discussion of the situa-24 hours ending at 10 am to-day say. Caroline would say,

Julian of a Cabinet, a task which the Pre- tion of unemployed juvenile, was: 0.18 inch The total since Froggy Ogden would be alarmed. sident then once more offered to M. workers here yesterday.

Jannery I was 16.56 inches, against but he would burst out laughing. Laval, who consented to make an- The International Labour Office an average of 26.06 inches. other attempt.

bas submitted to the conference On leaving the Elysee M. Laval some proposals for relieving this Committal proceedings were be

ing her loud haw-haw haw, not informed pressmen that in face of situation, the recommendations in gun yesterday before Mr. Q. A. Acle being insulted, nor because because she enjoyed seeing her the, grave situation he had not cluding training and advice, social, Macfadyen at the Central Magis she wanted to be on Julian's side;

· Bound Over thought himself justified in re service for juvenile unemployed, tracy again Li Ngai-yan. 27, for

fusing the commission, and he and the establishment of volun- being in possession of 40 forged but because it would mean a situa Both complainant and defendant would therefore form a Cabinet tary labour camps...

tion, something to have been in on notes of the Hong Kong and Shang-

*Didn't you ever hear that one?" were each bound over in a bond of Among those in close contact with

Despite the modest scope of hai Banke: The man was arrested at

Beilly was

"Mother of $100 to be of good behaviour for the Foreign Minister the deduction these proposals several delegates, the Sui. Wah Yuen restaurant, 152

God, that's of the oldest Catho a period of 12 months by Mr. W. drawn from this declaration was including the representative of Queen's Road Central The hear

is I heard a Schofield at the Central Police that M. Laval would get a Govern- the British Government, advised ing was adjourned till this after- Court this morning, when Wament together before the night was against their acceptance and sug-noon,

ope, oh, it Mun, unemployed, was charged out and would present it to the gested that the conference should

twenty years). Burke, used to be with assaulting Leung Wim in Chamber as quickly as possible once more get in touch with the

Saint Mary Star of Collierville Yes, I one a long while ago. "I am going to form a Govern He was a good-natured old codger. ment. It is a duty I cannot Trem

Both Protagonists

Third Street on Wednesday last.

M. Laval was said to be deter various Governments before tak In outlining the case Detective mined to place, the responsibility ing any action in this matter Sergeant. Shepherd stated that on the Chamber for terminating the Trans Ocean Service. complainant was the adopted son Crisis-Trans-Ocean Service.

ANHWEL TEA TRADE

of defendant's mother. Defendant suspected complainant of having | intimate relations with his mother, and when they met on the More than 100 tea firms failed to staircase of No. 65, Third Street, open this season in the

famous it was alleged that defendant as--

of saulted comp

with a chop vince, while only one-i the police station, de in used to disclose. the bot

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