CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915 — Page 508

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Le tuvan pa alam

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what was it made for? I don't know,

I was told by

Ng that he was to bring the deck to Bombay, and that it was made

to the order of his master,

Mr. Kewman - fore you surprised when Nielsen asked you

Yes, I asked him why he wanted

to pack these tins în planks?

them proled in this way,

What did he say?

He told me that the articles varo

liable to be easily broken, and besides, Nielson also said thamt it was desired by his friend that they should be packed in this way.

Did you believe that? I believed his words, I also hinted to Xielsen that these articles could not be exported, and he said they could,

What made you think that these articles could not be exported? Because I have been an export clerk, so I know that exports should not be packed in this way.

At that time was any suspicion raised in your mind that this cargo was not medicine? Yes, some suspicion,

If it was not medicine what did you think it waJ? Although I suspected that the tims might not contain medicine, neither did I suspect that they contained aIDS, I asked him if the tins really contained medicine, and he said "there are many kinds of medicine which you have noticed in your hong of considerable weight", witness added that he certainly was surprised when ng told him that the tins contained arms, because he asked kr, Nielsen whether the tins contained medicine, and he assured him that they did,

In answer te kr, lusso, in re-examination, the witness said that the reason he wanted to assist Mielsen in this matter

was because he vas starting a new business and Vielsen might be

able to help him with his foreign friends. He was not frightone:

be

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