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CHAK SANG INQUIRY

DISCREPANCIES IN SHIPPING ORDERS

Services Test Security

Arrangements

Services' establishments in Hong Kong, carried But ■ security test yesterday.

Guardi and armed sentries were posted at all entrances as Army, Navy and Roya!

Air Forca estallishments and at Kal Tak

The exercise was to test the internal security of the westablishments.

TICKET SCALPER

SENTENCED

Discrepancies in the shipping orders covering_dan- gerous, and general cargo tooded on the ss. Chak Sang prior to the explosion that sank heron September 7 ware revealed at the re- sumption of the Inquiry yesterday. Evidence by Mr. Ting Siu-yin, Jardine, Matheson's Chinese Shipping Department's booking clerk, indicated that out of 69 drums of phenol only 25 were identified as dangerous on the mor- mal "ced paper" shipping order. Acetic acid was also separately identified.

Court pointed out to There has never been any case of BERPANatio= |mixepresentation of dangerous ping orders cegewing the cargo cargo, that is, being manifested as loaded on the Chak Sang there gemetal cargo and vice versa," were several instances of dan Mr. declared gerous cargo being tired the general cargo which sub- sequently would upset the whole system.

Charged with the unau- In his evidence. Mr. Ting said thorised sale of theatre tickets, that he received 25 thrums of Chan Kwai, of 154 Shanghai phenol from Joseph and Street, was sentenced to six Company; 363:Cados Balding months' imprisonment with and nuns from Phi Ching hard labour by Mr. F. X Produce and Trading Company d'Almada at Kowloon yester- day.

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arrested Defendant $425 August 28 with 12 theatre tickets cutside the Sun Wan heatre in Sai Yeung Choi Street.

Inspector J. Orem said that defendant had been doing noth-)

He never checked the cargo.

The shipper decides the nature of the cargo and is instructed to identify dangerous goods on red paper shipping weder and general cargo on white paper order," wit- ness told the Court.

"I always tell the shipper to

Shippers Warned

in accepting the cargo, no strèss was laid on the condition and packing st the goddá Witness said he had never at any time issued instructions about special markings for dangerous

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Special instructions this issued by the European, per- sonnel, be added.

Mr. Ting declared he did not know phenot was a dangerous cargo.

"Infact I do not know

he added. what cargo is dangerous or not,”

"But I always wam shippers to dangerous cargo on red paper shipping orders.

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ing but selling black market make sure of the nature of. they did not notice the difference tickets,

cargo from the original Source between the two sets of

Correspondence

phonol

Stirring A Witch's Brew

of

Under the watchful eye of Mr. Tan Luk-yam, réprésénting the Audit Department, Mr. Brew," 5,540 taciz ef J. W. Mcintyre Brown, Chief Preventive Officer, stirs the "Witch's boiling oplum. The contraband, oplum; seized by the Revenue Department in a number. recent raids and searches, is balled to prevent any, possibility of recovery from the usual Becretary of "the dumping bea. Others watching the proceedings are Me-J.W., Ferring Department of Commerce and Industry, and Revenue Inspector Humphreys. The oplum, worth -about HK$100,000, whit be dumped at sea Inter-China-Mall”-Photo.

Doctor Advocates A Children's Hospital

(44 drums on white order and 25 A hospital for children should be given first prior-

on red cider) when I signed the

arders," witness asserted.

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Under cross-examination Mr. J. Lynn, who is holding & watching brief for the owners of the vessel, the Indo-China S.N. it Company, witness declared that European personnel about the nature of a cargo should he be in devibt Otherwise when he was

The Editor takes no responsibility for views expressed in he had time he would consult the

letters by correspondents, and by no means with them:

Local1 Justice

As I have remarked before, there Beers to be something radically wrong with the mamer in which British justice is ad- ministered in the Police Courts of Hong Kong.

There seams; without doubt, to be one

la

for the rich and one for the poor one for the Euro- pean and one for the Chinese.

In view of

of present day conci- tions in this part of the world,

necessarily doTER

formation through your esteemed busy he would not

But in the case of the Chak newspaper:

(1) Address and telephone Sang, he was sure and accepted number of the Hong Kong Society the decision of the shippers. He for the Prevention of Cruelty to did not consult any

European Animals,

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ity in any health scheme that the Hong Kong Government may have for the future, Dr. Lee Hah-liong told members of the Y's Men's Club at the weekly luncheon, at Hong Kong Hotel yesterday.

Speaking on "Paediatrics and Child Health," Dr. Lee said that the subject is one which the medical world has given a great deal of at- tention for the past 20 years.

Personalia

Sir Robert Ho Tung has arrived at Copenhagen, according to pri- vate messages received here yes- terday. He was received by the King and Queen of Denmark as the Palace.

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Mr. and Mrs. A Sydney-Smith Paediatrics today concerns The direct causes were mainly left for Singapore yesterday by itself not only with the dis-delay in seeking medical treat the ss. Hai Lee. ease of children and their ment, and ignorance of the value Only two and a treatment, but also with the of fresh air.

Among the passengers for Hoi- (2) Names of the President,

by the how yesterday

đi Hải Chairman, Secretary and Trea- On White Order problem of growth and deve-half per cent of the deaths of in- surer of this Society,

Questioned by Mr. D. Strellett, lopment which have a direct lasts under one year old had fee was Mr. Pierre Royert.

been seen by a doctor for more (3) How can we join it?”

of the bearing upon the preservation than 24 hours. for the master

The delay was ANTI-CRUELTY. counsel

both physical and Chak Sang. Mr. W. Edwards, and of health (Editor's Note: "The contexts and Chief Officer B. Johnson, wit mental and the prevention of bees ness said that in his opinion acetic diseases: of the above letter hate

Nutrition is by far the most red paper shipping order. He important factor affecting the would have done so if he had health and development of the

child. written it.

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it is high time that the power forwarded to the local representą. Į acid should be identsed on the

that-be realised that the soonET they set about remedying the tire of the society." existing state of affairs, the bet A King's Vanity

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Departures from the Peninsula included and general ignorance. Old super-Hotel on Wednesday Probably due to poverty, neglect Stitions and customs have also Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Van Ness, Mr. great deal to do with these causes, and Mrs. H. Y. Shih, Mrs. G. L The moment child is sick Hills, Mr. and Mrs. H. Schuchard, and Mrs. G. N. White, Mr the harassed mother usually closes all windows and doors Mrs. R. Lean, Mrs.

J. Meyers, Mr. and C. S. Russell, Breathing is made more dim-

B. Leonard, J. E Messrs. W. cult by the heaps of clothing Forte, B. Cambell, H. C. Foo, A

covering

F. Razak, J. T. Birckheed, Hillhouse, and M. Stadler.

and Blankets chita.

The Medical Department during

Growth of the infant begins at The shippers rent in the or des on the white paper shipping conception. It is important, there order and witness said he sign-fore, that the mother should re-

ceive proper nutrition.

With World War II, there has been a revolution, in the diet of the past year has done more for children in England. Great ad the sick children than has ever vance has been made in the prac- been done before, Dr. Lee dis- tical application of the principal closed. of feeding according to biological

needs.

are

In Hong Kong today, there has

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New arrivals af the Pensula Hotel on Wednesday included Mr. and Mrs. R. Doyle, Mrs. G. Van Pragm Mr. and Mrs. H. 0. BRVIG- G. Furby Mr. and Mrs. Betesh, J. Dweck, B. Dweck, R. garten, Messrs, A. Matzen, J. R. Gebo, and E. Godinez.

Hong Kong is 35 year old and *If each and every one of us has been with the Colonial See will participate in the effort to-retarial for 18 years after com- wards this end, the result can be plotting his education at Queen's far reaching." Dr. Lee concluded. College.

This will be Mr. Surad's first absence from the Colony except

ter it will be for this Colony.

This letter is the outcome of a Sir,-The photograph of the recent decision which was hand-mural depicting John Sobieski, cd down a certain magistrate. King of Poland, reproduced in

by question, In the case

a very Wednesday's "China Mail" Sup-

Replying to the Court, witness fimsy defence was put forward plement recalls an interesting said a sworn measurer measured by the defending lawyer on be story of the vanity of King all cargo aboard a ship. The com

alf of the accused, who was a Charles II of England

pany never measures the cargo. It was a defence which

In the tenth century,

Two shipping orders coveria

"There is one urgent need to be both red and white farms-the

filled that is, a hospital for sick abers have been accepted by the could stop the militant Turks acetic acid were found to be filled

question had the from swanring over the South

children. This should be give accused been a a Chinese.

Eastern countries of Europe, former indicating it being dan- the letter identifying

Better Fed gerous and

first priority in any health schem Yet the magistrate, according the King of Poland won a tre-

which Government

may have for The children drums of phenol were made out to reports in the Press, was in meadous victory over the inva-it to be general cargo. The 44

and pregnant the fature," he asserted. agreement with the defence ders.

mothers are better fed in England

Equally important is edication To celebrate the event, an on white paper order.

Next to enter the witness box today than they have ever been of the general public in the know-

Mr. Abdul Kayımm Sufjad, put forward and discharged the

was placed with a London

extra ledge given accused..

Class 1 Executive Officer in the of simple hygiene and

Colonial Secrétariat, will leave by The decision of the magistrate sculptor for a statue, depicting was Mr. B.C. Gates, shipping before lazy

assistant of the Export-Import ratioes of protein and milk.

sanitation, proper nutrition, cor- likely

to set up a

As a vary John Sobieski mounted

Department, European

result there has been rect feeding mothercraft and the the RMS Canton today for the dangerous precedent, and if bad prancing charger and a cringing Freight

United Kingdom, on secondment in the physical | an increase characters are not slow on the Turk on the ground under the Staff

Witness identified the shipping measurements of school children anger of believing in supers to the Colonial Office for two.

tion, customs. atid habits detri- petzke, one can foresee a most horse's feet. The statue

from a quarter to half inch la mental to the attainment of pro-

t year Sufflad who was born in trying time ahead for our al- never delivered. The army of orders covering the cargo loaded

height and from one and

haff ready overworked Police Force, Poland suffered reverses, result on the Chak Sang as correct.

find it

to two ib. in weight and in the Per health. extremely ing in which will

Lefters To Chief Officer a depleted exchequer.

sharp

decline of the infant difficult to secure a conviction in The completed statue lay in a

Mr. Gates, said he dealt with

child and, maternal-mortality. cases of the type under reter-London

warehouse ence.

years until it was brought to the foreign shippers, while M, Ting The opportunity might also be notice of Charles II, who return. last winers, dealt with Chinese beta no appreciable change in the

shippers.

Occasionally he referred to 2ftitude of the Chinese mothers. taken to point out that there are ed from exile. a large number of long-terhead of the Polish king to be other members of the staff when towards, dieting Bulk and surfelt PHARMACEUTICAL for the period when he took re-

"Our feasts are too rich and prisoners in Stanley Prison who replaced by a likeness of him he received mutual dangerous If the case of the European sell, and that of the prostrate ca question is to be taken as an

Regarding the covering letter contain too much protein, while

The Pharmaceutical Society of authority, should not be there. Is Dark to be altered to represent

eal Oliver Cromwell.

rent to the chiez oficer informing the food in the majority of homes

is unbalanced and defcient in Hg Kong heid its inaugural the real che to

assume that

was erected in main | wird of the dangerous items in the many ways? Dr. Lee said. The statue:

dinner at the Hong Kong Hotel, offence of these prisoners was

gwitness said it was not a

The most glaring deficiency es- on Wednesday. not they had done: sobrething London thoroughfare and remain-cargo.

children Dr. Isaac Newton as guest of wrung in the eyes of the law, huted there far more than a century normal procedure.

to a king's vanity monument

That was sent apparently to pecially in the diet of that they were barn Chinese?

SIMPLE SIMION. It was eventually removed to al-draw the attention the officer and pregnant mothers is in first honour proposed a toast, to the low for road alterations, and is 10 the dangerous goods with class proetin, Vitamin B group, new Society.

calcium and iron.

In reply

Wesley C that breast chairman of the Society, gave a now in the grounds of a moudry particular Attention to one or two

It is regrettable tarosion dear Bipon ba York items.

feeding is so little practised in brief resume of how and why the "Heads 1 W

Gross-examined by Mr. Lynnr the Colony nowadays. Infants who Society was formed. Referring to witness, said that although he 'You Lose"

did not see all shipping orders are breast fed by well-nganished its objects he said that it was not Sir In my opinion, the At

quise. of an Ethical Society, torney-General's attention should

and the mortality during the rs Driver, and Mr. Ko Chenk-bung.

The guests included ProLi lower them those few months artificially fed Dr. Lee declared. Statistics of infant morality in

1) deaths of infants per 1,000 of Hong Kong during 1947 were: live births has fallen to 119.

2) under one year old, 4,8227. 4) total deaths, 13,231. 33 from one to five years, 1767.

Tails

He gave Instructions for the

shire.

C. G.

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is still the criterion.

mothers are usually

SOCIETY

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he saw the booking flat, wherein babies and have fever in the labour union acting andes the

Pen Pals

the cargo was not indicated as be drawn to the dangerous pre- Sir understand from tom!

dangerous or otherwise. cedent set by a magistrate pa day's papers that I can have pen- Wednesday

His normaal duty was to board at the Rowipon pals in England, so I am new Magistracy.

writing to you in the hope that all ships, under his supervision According to the magistrate's you would put me in the list. 1 to inform the officer on duty of decisica, despite police evidence, am a boy at 163 stidying in St. the dangerous cargo likely to be

person in control of a pri- Joseph's College. If there is my- Lash or boat on which) thing I have omitted, please o

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loaded

Wrong Translation vale Bale contraband is found is immune vise me information about that on her sixival. The officer whom He did so with the Chak Sang from prosecution.

The magistrate compared the arganisation are appreciated. Can

he met be presumed to be the The Court asked you about a

firs

CHARITY BAZAAR

The annual bazar of the Pre cious Blood: Children's - Cilnic, and. Orphanage will be held tomorro at the Convent compound at Yuen Chow Street, Shumshuipo, ander the patronage of Mr. Chung King-

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case concerned with cases where I have one of those forms spoken? chief quicer, witness Bald Major Causesse It will continue the

NORBERT CHAN;

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contraband had been found on Thank you veLY ARACAJAS board ocean-going · Commercia}; tessels, and in which cases the masters of the vessels obviously could not be held responsible.

According to the magistrate's

in whosel

Happy Valley Hong Tou.

decision, any-perontraband is Pen Palsta A

private residence.

found, shall in future be ime

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causes, for

substation referred to as zine dust. deaths were broncho memuncia, day will continue the following

it correct to say that the Cain-enteritis, prematurity and taber-

object of

of the bazaar is to ese characters meant zinc oxide

culosis,

raise funds for supporting the although the English translation

These four disease w

were resinstitution which has more than was the dust?? Mr. Lynn asked.

care. ponsible for three-quarter of the 100 orphans under its the translation was in- total deaths. Broncho-pneu 27 various fries and individuals br}

With the generous support of stone was responsible for Sirin reply to the article core viness replied.

Witness agreed with Mr. Strel deaths, half of the infant deaths way of donations of articles and trom prosecution at a person in "British Fen Fals which appear

cheques, the bazaar? will have on your comespondence left that in pegard to the use of under one year. contro, of a restaurant, a dancing i ed

Poor - hotssing, va overcrowding, marry interesting SAFICE and hall, or a theatre cannot be held column yesterday, I would like to red/white shipping orders he dis answerable for contraband found have qurther information about not depend for information had ventilation and sanitation, stores of tisual articles, sweets

malnutrition and poverty are all and Zood shar on the premises he is in charge the procedure of getting a pen-garding dangerous cargo on them

at extracted his information contributory causes to the deaths but. Intending smugglergat Lake

now shall Rppreciate much from the general list

cargo and according 10 de magistrate's | if you would Idndly help me in from his own knowledge dan 1 tiong by your cothpany to shippers |

tails you lose

PET NICHOLAS-

the

of

EUROPEAN FINED over? 20

interpretation of the law, have this respect Wishing you ever The decision on accepting contraband on their boots and yet success, Egerous, cargo as marked on the to mark dangerous goods?" coun-

-A fine of $100 was immosed on not be answerable to any charge. PAN FRANCIS CC10, red shipping.orglers rested on Mr.tel asket "I do not know of any,

He himself witness said.

Mr. DLE. Kibble, of 9. Bilwood Surely it is not, heads Twin

Ting, he declared.

siid that the covering Roads by Mr. FX d'Almada ar in the

ithout a HS Garter hid he would not ing dangerous goods was written motorcycle No 900 approve of cetic acid being before the shipping orders were valid licetice on September 28.

made.

Inspectorate Orem me said that marked on white shipping or

Hearing was then adjourned to defendant fifled to renew hir Do you know of any instruc-19:30 am on Tuesday, October 4.1 Učence.

Prevention Of Cruelty

Sire Some of my friends, and formation and

I would be prost grateful if we "firme say be had on could i porain the Lolowing inel to five office before & Pink)

fuge in Macao during the war.

Mrs. Sufflad and their three children will not accompany him. on his tour of duty in the United Kingdom.

No wonder he's her leading man...

His face is always spick

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