THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SETTEMBER 1919.
Inquiry Into Chak Sang
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE Disaster Continues
CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
SAILINGS TO Singapore, Penang &
Belawan
"SHENGKING"....Swatow
JESSEXTM
"FENGTIEN”
.Kobe & Yokohama.
Singapore & Penang Singapore, Macassar, Sourabaya. Sama- rang & Batavia
"ANHUT"
3 p.m. 22nd Sept.
"РАКНОГ"
"SHENGKING"
Swatów & Bangkok Swatow
5pm. 23rd Sept.
6 p.m. 23rd SepL*
"SOOCHOW"
.Inchon,
Pusan
*
HEINRICH
JESSEN"
Moji Swatow, Amoy
Swatow
5 p.m. 25th Sept
&
5 p.m. 25th Sept.
6 p.m. 25th Sept.*
"NINGHAI"
5 p.m. 26th Sept.
HEINRICH
Nocn 1st Oct.
"SOOCHOW"**
. Korca & Moji
Bangkok
7th Oct.?
• Sails from Custodian Whart ARRIVALS FROM
a.m. 22nd Sept. Swatow
1 p.m. 22nd Sept.
11 p.m. 22nd Sept.
..S'pore & Hoihow..
7 a.m. 23rd Sept.
23rd Sept.
Amoy & Swatow
am. 30th Sept.
RIVER SERVICE
"FATSHAN"
Dept. Hongkong
Midnight
*WUSUEH"
"TSINAN"
*NINGHAI" SHENGKE "HEINRICH
JESSEN" HEINRICH JESSEN"
"WUSUEH"
...Swatow
Hongkong/Canton Canton/Hongkong
23rd & 25th Sept. Midnight
26th & 29th Sept. Hongkong/Macao
~~~~~DeptTM Hongkong-
2 p.m. Saturday
Arr. Hongkong
7 a.m. 25th & 27th Sept.
7 a.m. 23rd & 28th Sept.
**
Macso/Hongkong Arr. Hongkong
4.45 p.m. Sunday
BLUE FUNNEL LINE ·
Schedule Sailings to Europe via Aden, Port Said.
"CALCHAS"
"AGAPENOR"
"AENEAS"
Tangier, Liverpool &
Glasgow
N. Africa, Havre &
Liverpool
.......
Genoa, Marseilles,
Liverpool & Glasgow ARRIVALS FROM
"AENEAS”
UK via Straits
"AUTOMEDON"
25th Sept.
9th Dec,
26th Oct
*30th Sept. 11th Oct. 22nd Sept. 28th Oct. 30th Oct.
"DYMAS"
"CYCLOPS"
*EURYMEDON"
"AJAX"
NEW YORK SERVICE
loads
for Halifax,
Boston & New York via Suez.
"TELEMACHUS". Arr. from U.S.A.
24th Sept
via Manila
25th Oct. Curriers option to proceed via other Ports to load & discharge cargo.
AUSTRALIAN ORIENTAL LINE LTD./CHINA
A NAVIGATION CO., LTD. JOINT-SERVICE :
"TAIPING"
"CHANGTE"
"TAIPING"
*CHANGTE"-
SAILINGS TO-
Svdney & Melbourne .Kure
ARRIVALS FROM
Sydney. Brisbane,
Cairns & Manila
.Sydney. Brisbane &
Cairns
14th Oct. 14th Oct.
7th/8th Oct.
10th Oct.
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You will
REVEL IN LEISURE
on
ROUNDTRIP TO JAPAN
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About Sept. 27th-about Oct. 9th
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Sightseeing at Kobe and Yokohama ROYAL INTEROCEAN LINES
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"The No. 2 cargo supervisor was responsible for the passengers aboard the Chak Song and 1 did not know about them until they were checked at the Tsim Sha Tsui Police Station after the explosion," Wong Kai-ming, No. 1 cargo supervisor, stated when giving evidence、 at the Court of Inquiry yesterday.
In reply to questions as to what he would have done had he known about the passengers, witness said he would have driven them off the ship. "If we were at sea, then I would immediately report to the master."
Mr. Strellett then asked: Sup- Wong entered the witness } box after the fourth engineer, posing you knew about the spas- John B. Quealy, had finished sengers what would you have telling the Court his version done-I would have driven them
off the ship. of the blast which sank the
If you were at sen you would British steamer Chak Sang as report that to the master wouldn't she rode at anchor in the Dan-your-Yes, 1 would. gerous Goods Anchorage at on the night of Buoy A-15 September 7 in the face of a typhoon threat.
Recalling the evening prior to the blow up. witness said it was la very hot evening and he slept on the deck. He woke up later and after a bath went to his cabin Known either as the No. 1 cargo supervisor or the No. 1 to listen to the radio and read.
vitress compradore.
told the Court that he has been working in that department for more than 20 yea
years.
A Big Noise
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Explosion At Oil Refinery
Fort Worth, Texas,
September 20 A terrific explosion rocked Magnolia Refinery: No. 1 to- day, setting off a raging fire and killing at least two men and injuring at least eight others"
on
City firemen climbed top of the refinery... super- structure to battle the flames.
"Later the firemen announc- ed that they had the fire un- der control, averting a possi. ble further explosion-Azzo - ciated Press
Armed Robbers Sentenced
The punishment of seven years' hard labour and nine: strokes each was meted out to four men at the Criminal Ses- sions yesterday by Mr.' Justice Williams, senior Puishe Judge, when they were.convicted of robbery with aggravation.
The jury of six men, and one unanimous woman returned a verdict on Cheung Hon-sang, Ip Yu and Young Chi-cheme and Leung Ngau. The latter had plead ed guilty to the charge before the trial.
All four men were not legally Heena, represented. Mr. M. Crown Counsel, assisted by De- had I gone out when the tele-tective Sub-Inspector D. Taylor, graph rang-slow astern.
prosecuted.
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