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London, To-day.
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 2, 1938.
'DISCIPLINE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN NIL:" JAPANESE JAILED IN SILKWORTH CASE
"In a case like this, I am inclined to take a very serious view. Discipline on this ship seems to have been nil and although that may be all right under a foreign flag, under the British flag it is not good enough.
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"The ship's company appears to have been in a state bordering Not on mutiny and accused seems to have carried that into fact, only did he strike the Third Officer with his fist but he also went be- low and returned with a lethal weapon."
While the third officer was These comments were passed by, deck. the Hon. Comdr. G. F. Hole, Har- talking to the bos'n about the or- bour Master, in sentencing H. der, accused entered into conversa- Their discus- Wakisita, Japanese': 'quartermaster tion with the latter. of the ss. Silkworth at the Marsion was in Japanese' and I did not ine Court this morning for an understand it. assault on the Third Officer of that vessel on the morning of January 29, whilst on a voyage from Hong Kong to the Philippines.
Accused was sentenced weeks' hard labour.
to six
Complainant, Mr. A. Sanuki,
Third Officer of the Silkworth, told the Court that at 9.15 a.m., he re- ceived an order from the Chief Officer regarding a job which had to be done. He told the bos'n that all business in connection with the cleaning of the bridge should be in the hands of the quarter- master.
Finally accused struck the third officer on the hand and was pulled away by the bos'n. Accused: then ran to the lower deck and secured a steel poker and returned and at- tempted to assault the third officer with it.
CREW THREATENING As I saw the Japanese crew ap- proaching, I went to my room and loaded a .455 revolver and returned on deck to find several members of the crew in a threatening attitude.
The chief officer and second off- cer gave corroborative evidence..
ACCUSED'S STATEMENT CAPTAIN TAKES OUT PISTOL
Accused stated that the evidence The quartermaster, accused, said that as he was not on duty, he of the third officer was correct. He would not take the job and asked did not intend harming either the witness to go to the first engineer captain or the ship. The question who would be able to report to the of the duty was to be settled be- the tween the third officer and himself." Chief Engineer regarding duties he had been engaged on “I can't add anything else and I take responsibility regarding the that morning.
assault on him.” *
"Accused told me to go to see the chief engineer, the interpreter.
Sentence was then
I told him to go himself. He in-stated. sisted that I should go so I went to the Captain and Chief Officer and reported the matter.
Accompanied by the Captain and to the Chief Officer, I returned bridge where the Quartermaster was waving a stick which he held
passed ás
BERCOVITCH- BRASILEVSKY
in his hand. The captain took his WEDDING
pistol out and accused became quiet.
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Up to this time the sailors had been below but they now came on to the bridge. They did not know what was happening but said to the captain "If you shoot this man, you shoot us as well."
TURNED : BACK
The second engineer then came on the bridge and appeased the Tam crew, - accused remarking, responsible for all this trouble."
the The captain then ordered ship to turn back for Hong Kong.
His Worship: When are you You have coming to the assault? Press reports stating that the told us a lot about what happened Italian Government has protested in on the bridge, but you have said London against the Earl of nothing about an assault.
Witness: There was no parti- Athlone's planned visit to Egypt and King Farouk returned to Cairo
When accused asked yesterday to attend the opening of Saudi Arabia, are emphatically deni-cular assault.
me to fetch the chief engineer, he the International Tele-Communica- ed in Whitehall.
The private nature of the Earl's was waving the stick about and he tions Conference, at which repre-
just pushed me. visit is once again stressed. sentatives of sixty-two nations are
Trans-Ocean. present...
Cairo, To-day,
The young King returned in the evening to his country estate where he is spending his honeymoon. Reuter.
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STRUCK WITH STICK His Worship (Impatiently); have never heard evidence given so badly in my life. You're wasting Wong Fat-lau, aged eight, was my time and I'm a busy man. When taken
ten to the Kowloon Hospital suf- did the assault occur?
· 1,500 PROPOSALS...
When fering from injuries received when-Witness:
the captain Cairo, To-day." The Congress will discuss about he was knocked down by a car driven came on the bridge at 9.20, accused 1,500 proposals and suggested al- by Mr. H. Murray, of Empress struck me with a stick in the pre- terations in the field of telegram Lodge, on the Sai Kung Road yes-sence of the captain and chief offi- transmission by cable and wireless. terday.
Capt. John Jackson, master of The P and O. 8.s. "Chitral" left the Silkworth, said "“On the day is the Egyptian proposal for erec- tion of a 100-kilowatt transmitter Shanghai yesterday and is due here in question, the bos'n was ordered, in my presence, to wash down the for the Near East Trans-Ocean. · · to-morrow at about 2 p.m.
Another question to be discussed
cer."
The marriage between Miss Ida Brasilevsky, and Mr. Samuel Ber- covitch,, of Messrs. Marsman (Hong Kong China) Limited, which took place before The Deputy Registrar of Marriages, Mr. W. A. this morning at the Registry was followed by another ceremony, con- ducted according to Hebrew rites, at the Jewish Synagogue this after-
noon.
Jones,
Misses L. and R. Bercovitch, in beautiful gowns of white satin, attended in the capacity of brides- maids, while the bride was also elegantly attired in white-lace and carried a bouquet of white roses.
Miss-Dolores Hughes, in a blue- coloured dress was the flower-girl.
The bride was given away by Mr. Lawrence Kadoorie, while Mr. W. Citrin attended the bridegroom as bestman.
A reception was held later in the evening at No. 4
Hill Shousan Road, the residence of Mr. Emil Landau,
CLOUDY GENERALLY
The Royal Observatory reports. to that the anticyclone continues be stationary over China and the neighbouring seas and has in- creased slightly in intensity. Pressure is highest to the north west of Shantung.
winds,
Local forecast:-N. E. fresh; cloudy generally.
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