1941-09-24 — Page 41

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 24, 1941.

ATTENTION DIVERTED TO THE CRIMEA

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WITH THE FALL OF KIEV AND THE CHECKING OF THE GER- ATTENTION HAS ∙MAN ADVANCE, ON THE NORTHERN FRONTS. SWITCHED TO THE CRIMEA WHICH, ACCORDING TO THE LON- DON “DAILY HERALD" YESTERDAY, THE GERMANS INTEND MAKE "A SECOND CRETE.”

The Crimea, according to reports, is al- ready cut off and now the Germans are as- sembling hundreds of transport ‘planes and picked parachutist regiments west of the Black Sea in preparation for a major aerial landing.

Stubborn fighting, meanwhile, continues along the whole front, with Moscow claiming that Mar- shal Timoshenko is "investing Smolensk" after 120,000 Nazi troops were "eliminated" in the cen- tral sector.

Furious Russian counter-attacks are being carried out in the Len- mgrad and Odessa areas aided by heavy artillery, and the Germans have been driven back in both sectors.

The Germans were driven back "several miles" near Odessa, says the official Tass news agency.

Moscow radio declared that Rumania has lost half its entire army from the start of the war. Berlin claims that "at least 200,- 000" Russian troops were killed in the 10-day battle east of Kiev

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The Stockholm newspaper "Tidningen" reports the signing of a Swedish-German trade agreement to increase Swedish export of wood to Reich, International News Ser- vice.

P.W.D. FOREMEN QUESTIONED

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out of 750,000 men thrown into the tunnels collapsed? the conflict.

Do you know that that

blasting? divisions were did not need

but a part needed it.

"Fifty Russian annihilated," say the Nazis, "in- flicting an irreparable and mortal wound in the Red Army's most vulnerable spot."

The Germans also claim "fur- ther progress" in the Odessa and Leningrad sectors,

Ukraine Claim

German officials claim that the Russian commanders "foresaw the magnitude of the disaster week and strove to shatter

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Yes.

the sign

book? There was watchnian.

Kin Lee's or the Government's? tunnel-Kin Lee's.

a

ten documents left Government servants.

Left behind Hunghom office.

behind by

where?--In

the

By the Government foremen?— Yes.

Or whether more than that had been issued?---No.

Took Word

You

saw the orders?

So the position is this, took the word of the Government t Yes, He was the only man there?--

And these represent the work foremen as to the amount of ex Yes.

Is the book still in the office?-done during the night? Yes. Both plosive used? Yes, but there werere How did you get from site to

the orders. day and night. I would visit Yes. site at night?

You never The information you got from one site and any other that re- Bring it at 3 o.m. this afternoon,!

to 12,Sometimes I did. So we have this position. You, the night shifts, from 8 quired Immediate attention.

What do you mean? When at $2.50 a day, are supposed tourd 12 to 8 was information you the Government ser- blasting was needed and when supervise five sites, two of which got from

those night danger threatened.

are far away and only visited once vants on How would you know? The a night?-I was accompanied by a Correct. man who left duty

before me man from Kin Lee and visited the

And in that information they would tell me.

sites at least once.

the advance would tell you of made during the night? That is put down in writing.

You did go from site to site?- last yes.

the If the previous foreman left no iron ring by fierce counter-attacks instructions you would not go?-- the southern front, where No, even then it was my duty to whole columns were mowed down do so.

on

in an attempt to hold back our advance,"

Berlin says the Nazi High Com- mand has thrown two fresh divi-

into

in the battle sions

the Ukraine, "with Spanish and Ita- lian troops" participating. In- ternational News Service.

Brooke

Family Century

Attendance Book

It was your duty but you did

said so? not do so? - Who have to sign an attendance book. Did you sign every night? - Certainly, this work is dangerous. Did you go to every she when on night duty? Yes.

Paid a visit to each of the five sites? - Yes.

And entered your name at the time of every visit at night? I go and visit the tunnels, then I go back to the office and sign after each visit.

The attendance book is kept at Hunghom. How would you start? at -I would start for No. 5 Hunghom

It would take another 40 min- utes? Yes.

I

I'm going to suggest to you that you very seldom visited those sites at night.--No.

Gambling Allegation

shifts?

Merely Sign

And sometimes you didn't?-- That is so.

Yet this amount of explosive” used was certified by you as cor rect, sent in to Government, andi Government paid on that? What procedure was adopted after I had signed the paper, I do not know.

What pay do you get a month?j?

I get $4 a day............ :

That you and the other Gov- And you copy that in your re-

And you say sometimes your ernment foremen spent the night port?—I don't have to write out

I merely sign the are too busy to check the work gambling with the foreman of Kin anything.

Yes, Lee.-No, I don't know about the statements made out by the fore-done?

men.

others, I speak for myself.

Were you the only man on night. Well anyway, when you come duty before?-Yes. Several months in the morning, they are ready?—

on Yes. ago Lo Hok-pui and I were regular night duty.

And they are addressed to Mr. One one night and the other the J. G. Campbell?-Yes. other?---No. we made our OWNL We took turns, arrangements.

so that if I went from 4 p.m. to 12 he would go from 12 to 8 am. Who would take the day shift? -There Was another foreman from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. His name is Tsang.

George Tsang is the number one. He had to rely on the three of you as to night work?—Yes.

He goes by your reports on the number of workmen engaged?------ Yes.

Can you read English?-Yes. Well read this (producing statement)-May glasses sir?

I wear

L

my

Kept Busy

What, are you too busy doing?

Checking the work done on ti the five sites.

But that is in connection signing the reports? - Yes.

Then what is this other work

Yes, wear your glasses. Witness then read the statement that keeps you too busy? produced after which the chair-examine several kinds of work man continued with his question-I examine all the tunnels. ing.

Yes? George Tsang?-Yes.

To see whether the He never went on night duty? Well, having read these state-workmen were doing their work a -When we first came to work he ments. you sign in the bottom properly. Sometimes when I am was on night duty but not now. of the sheet?→→Yes..

too busily engaged on my worl Visit that?--Yes.

He has become a big man, be, And do you check these state- I cannot check before signing the e How long would you spend

ments?-Sometimes. When I am morning reports. does not do night work?--Yes.

the work A hundred years

of there?-About 40 minutes.

Did Chen Tong do night work? busy, I don't check

But you are paid $4 a day by Go to the office and sign the

Kin Lee to check the work be -Chen Tong was employed only done. rule by the Brooke family book?--Yes.

I am not talking about the times fore signing those reports? Then go to Site No. 4?--Yes, recently. Before that there were as White Rajahs of the

only two of us, and the work is when you checked the work done, Yes. Site Nos. 3 and 4 are adjacent.

I am talking of the times when Then why did you not check independent but British- Visit Site No. 4 and go back to now divided up.

you were too busy, and when you the work every morning before

I say this. Somend protected State of Sara-sign the book? Yes.

Then you would go back to No.

signed documents you knew noth- signing? ing about.I believe them to be times Mr. Bailey, a Governmentit wak, on the strategically 3?Yes.

correct before signing them.

supervisor, would go round the You then send it to Mr. Camp sites, so in those instances important oil-producing

bell? I leave

it in the office.

would have no time to check ban island of Borneo, was Witness then explained that he

fore signing in time to send the celebrated

Never Saw Them Again reports to the P.WD, at Kuching would, after signing, the book, as having visited No. 3, also sign

What did Mr. Bailey do? yesterday with full cere-the book that he was going to

And what happens? Some one went round with me to check visit No. 2:

from Kin Lee, would send it to the tunnels. mony...

Chairman: So you signed as

P.W.DINNER MENGA The day was ushered in by a salute of 100 guns from a British having visited No. 2 before you. destroyer and shortly after the actually did? Yes, 1 signed to Rajah, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, show where I would be.

how long Having gone there proceeded to the Administration

did you spend there? About: 40 through guards of honour of Bri- lish and Sarawak troops to bestow minutes. on his subjects a constitution in the presence of representatives, of King George, the Governor of Singapore, the British fighting Ser- How do you get from the office vices and the Malay and Moham-to No. 2? Do you walk? Some medan communities,

times by bus, when there is one, The new constitution provides otherwise I walk, for a gradual abolition of the How long does it take you to absolute rule which the Brookes walk?About 20 to 25 minutes, have exercised since the first After No. 2 you go to No. 1?— Rajah, Sir James Brooke, was Yes. M

Bus Or Walk?

No Surplus

When the morning shift came did those who took over find any unused explosive? Never da

No surplus? No, because we issued as we required

To Mr. Campbell?—No, to the Water Works Départment in Kow

To Mr. F. T. Tseng? No.

By good mathematical calcula-loon, tions you did not even have an ounce over? If we were short we would stay, without it for that time.

I suggest that why, the morning shift never found any was that by the time they came the fisher- men had got hold of it? The blasting was seen by us.

! The suggestion is not true? Certainly not true,

Kin Lee Foreman

Who would be the man to whom they would send this to?-It Is addressed to nobody.

Did you not tell Mr. Ballejay your first duty was to check the work done? No

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Why not. If you had done so he would not have taken you round. That did not occur, ta me, sir.

And is this how you are still signing the morning

Yes,

And you never saw this again? No Government paid Kin Lee for "Better Stop"

And it was on these reports that

work done?--I don't know.

In a report dated June 8, 1941, Well, you can take this from on site No. 5. I see 642 gelignite, me. You had better stop that sticks and 148 detonators were you see? Yes, air used? Yes,

And not only checke the done, but also check the amount of explosive issued.

con

What means had you of check Cheng Chung, foreman employing these before signing the docu- sworn in on September 24, 1841, Stay there another 40 minutes?. after finding himesif___ fortul- —No, I would stay there about a ed by Kin Lee, was the next ment? I check that up from the And don't over again put your tously on the island on an ex-quarter of an hour. The tunnel witness. In answer to the chair books. signature to a document

man as to whether his duties in- What book? The book which tents of which you are not in ploration, trip and subsequently is nearly completed.

W position to say arose correct. You would go back to the office cluded the making up of the the foreman kept. helping to quell a native rebel-

then?--Yes.

og morning reports for work done, You did not make enquiries Yos alr

from the dynamite store to see if The Commission then rose for If there was no bus you would he said that was so.

Chairman: From whom do you that amount had been issued? the tinn adjournment. Hearing

will be resumed "at walk? Yes

Who was in the office to see you get this information? From writ- | No.

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