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The officer in charge of the ship. Have you any reason to doubt
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those are my instructions?
I don't doubt they are your instructions.
Were they carried out in that way as far as you know?
A. People with passports were examined first and I don't think people
with entry permits were examined at all. There was such a grest rush
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of them. There was only a Chinese Immigration Officer standing on the gangway.
You say those with permits or certificates of residence were not examined?
They were just merely looked at.
What do you men by examination except merely looking?
It was not exmination in the way those with passports were examined.
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Not so carefully ? You have seen passports?
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Yes, of course I have.
You will admit they are more complicated than the Immigration documents which I issue?
Yes
And therefore require a good deal more time to examine?
Yes.
And that explains why these immigration documents were not examined ad carefully as the passports were. At the time when you wished to step ashore and were prevented from doing so, do you know whether all the passengers who carried entry permits and certificates of residence
had already been examined?
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They were not examined yet.
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Do you realize it would cause some confusion if some of the passengers went ashore before we were quite satisfied that all passengers were correctly recorded on the passenger list?
I don't think the names of the passengers with entry permits were recorded on the passenger list, but you must have had the number of passengers coming in.
Q. You are suggesting that the Shipping Company had disobeyed the
Immigration Ordinance?
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I am not suggesting that I enly say that the persons with entry
permits might have been examined at the same time as those with
passports.
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