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HSIN WAH INQUIRY TO BE HELD.

TWO, MORE SURVIVORS FOUND.

CASTAWAY ON A BARREN ISLAND.

JANUARY CRIMINAL

SESSIONS.

EIGHT OASES ON THE CALENDAR.

The January Criminal Sessions will open on Monday, and there are eight cases on the calendar. The Chief Justice, Sir Heary. Gollan. DRIFTED TWENTY MILES ON will hear four of them and the rest

RAFTS.

After two nights and a day on frail rafts two survivors from the "ill-fated Hsin Wah have been saved by Eshing junks. The first news of the rescue was received yes terday forenoon when a fishing junk returned from. Shap Chau Shan island with Cheung Shang Fat an engineer's "boy," who was taken off the island in a state of utter exhaustion. The island is ovor

will be heard at the smaller Court before Mr. Justice P. Jacks. It is expected that the Sessions, will last five days

The cases are:-

before the Chief Justice on the first Ho Fu, charged with piracy day. This case was adjourned from the December Sessions to enable evidence to be obtained to sustain n. plea of autrefois acquit. currency notes before the Fuise Tam Wing, possession of forged Judge on the first day...

Kam Singh, possession of forged Judge on the first day.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19th, 1929.

OILING A DIESEL

ENGINE.

MR. LEWIS A. PARKER GIVES USEFUL HINTS.

AT THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIP.

BUILDERS.

At the "Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, Hong Kong, last evening Mr. Lewis A. Parker, M.I.Mech. E., M.I.Mar. E., gave an of the "Lubrication Of Diesel interesting address upon the subject

Internal Combustion Engines.",

ternal lubrication for cylinders was Mr. Parker pointed out that in-

that took place between the cylinder required to overcome the friction

walls and piston rings. The rings, especially the first one, were forced

Lok Choi and Lau Man, murdering action on the lubricating oil cylinder walls, producing a squeez Ho Yam, robbery by two or more, film If the oil could not stand up Chan Tak Chun, robbery by two to this pressure, it was of no use

resulted, as a lubricant and solid friction"

COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

YOUNG BLACKSMITH ON MURDER CHARGE.

THE KENNEDY ROAD CASE.

,"

Outwardly calm and unperturbed, a young Chinese blacksmith. Leung Fang, listened to further evidence given against him by workmates before Major Willson at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon. wilful murder in Kennedy Road on Leung Fong was charged with the

February 2nd last of Fung Man Shu.

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EMPEROR OF

HEAVEN."

TWO-YEAR-OLD HEAD OF OF SECRET SOCIETY.

REFUSAL OF ALLIANCE WITH FENG,

two-year-old boy who is called the Peping, January 2nd (U.P.):~A

coming" Emperor of Heaven," who

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believed to be a god, is the contro "born of a virgin" and is

which originated in Honan province of a new and powerful secret society

a little more than two years ago, having already reached towns in and is spreading rapidly northward,

which Peping is located. Southern Chibli, the province in

The details of the beginning and

twenty miles from the scene of the currency notes-before the Puisae with great pressure against the were attacked by two men. A quan./ Progress of this society, known as

wreck.

. Later, it was reported that an- other junk had found Le Yung Po the chief steward of the Hain Wah.

or more.

Cheung's story adds another page to the grim anuals of the ses (2), Lai Hon (3). Chau Hai (4); Wu Wang Ngai (1), Li Lai Chan and one can say, in all truth, that conspiracy to utter forged notes ha and his fellow survivor have (of 850 denomination of the Hong returned from the dead. Ha telle of poration); Nos. 2 and 3 also with Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor- nraft loaded with dead and dying possession of forged notes; No. mea drifting in the darkness on

also with possession of" forged notes: No. 1 with possession of im- the storm-tossed waters, with cold,plements of forgery and possession hunger and thirst to add to the of arms and ammunition. tortures of the plight of the living- Nor did the coming of daylight do much to relieve their sufferings. It merely served to add to their realisation of their perils and in- creased the despair of the few who fought grimly for life.

Broken By Suffering. A broken looking being, whose awful experiences had reduced him to a condition barely human, with "gaping salt-water cuts on his hands and feet, with bruises all over his body and his eyes red-rimmed. and blood-shot from wind and exposure, Cheung relased his experietices in faltering tones to a Daily Press re presentative who interviewed him in the offices of the China Merchant Steam Navigation Company yester day afternoon.

I am glad to be alive." he said. Sometimes I still think I am dead. I was asleep when the ship was struck.

I rushed out on deck intending to get near the bridge. But everybody was mad. They were fighting one another and I saw some of the men jumping over the side into the raging sea in their panic. | I was pushed clean overboard by surging crowd of people and "found myself fighting for life-in the water. Four rafts had been lowered and I managed to climb into one he a wave bore me down upon it. Ten men were on the raft and we had a terrible time. We were wet, cold. and helpless and one or two became so terrified that they wert mad and jumped into the zea. Others lost ecnsciousness and were washed away. A steward and a sailor and myself were all that were left in the morning."

"After drifting for the better part of the day, they sighted a launch.. They hailed it but they were un- Keard and they had the humiliation of seeing the launch pass them by and return to harbour.

- Marooned.

Numbed and despairing, the men on the puny raft drifted twenty miles to the south-west until they came in sight of Hak Chau Shan Island, barren and uninhabited. The heavy seas breaking on the rocks threatened to dash the raft to pieces and prevented their land- ing.

Cheung, however, persevered, and by about five o'clock in the after noon (after he had been on the raft for over 12 hours), he leapt des- perately toward the rocks and aucceeded in gaining a foothold. He cut his chin badly and sustained ugly scratches all over his body. He made attempts to help his bro-i thers in distress, but to no avail. Finally be rank to the ground ex- hausted and, aa aight fall he saw his two mates for the last time olinging on the raft

he saw no more either of the raft

..

Lo Kang Pak, uttering a forged die, and four counts of embezzle

ment

The fishermen on the junk did their best for the exhausted man. He was given food, clothing and put

under warm blankets.

Thursday at 8 p.m.

The junk reached Hong Kong on

The rescued man was, however, tool to be moved, so he was allowed to stay on board the junk until yesterday morning when he was handed over to the Water Police.

cylinder, the more severe was the The larger the horse power of the

influence of temperature on the oil film, and the larger the diameter of the cylinder, the smaller the ratio of the cooling surface. There fore, usually the larger the cylinder the better the conditions and con- sideration when selecting the lubri

cant,

Distribution of oil.

At about 8 o'clock on the evening in Kennedy Road in the company of the crime. Fung Man Shu was of Bus Pui Fong, a married woman and a former sweetheart, when they

bracelet with a jade pendant, the tity of jewellery, including a gold recovery of which recently has pro vided a clue in the crime alleged against the accused, were taken from the girl, while the youth re- caived a fatal stab in the back.

Els Mother Is Court. The Court was packed with Chi- nese who listened attentively to the evidence.

reached the Legations here through| the "Heavenly Gates," have now

the district where the society began, a foreign missionary who lives in and has followed its development closely. The society has now be- come so powerful in parts of three provinces that it is recognised by the Nationalists as the local govern-

ment.

The Heavenly Galas. Li Fun Lam said he had been the missionary investigators were The Heavenly Gates, according to given a pawn ticket for the missing founded by a man named Hao Yu witness said he was present, when the little town of East Yu-tseun, in bracelet by accused, and another Ming, who was a stone-cutter in the ticket was handed over. This the Taibong, mountains witness alleged that accused said,border between Northern Honan

Misfortune has befallen me since

on the

No matter how finely metal sur- faces were finished, or

haw ac ourately the various parts were fit hair. The few dollars I made from temple in his town when he found I stabbed a person to death in Shansi. This Han was digging Kennedy Road. I am shedding my one day in the ruins of an ancient ted, it was practically impossible the murder have been lost in to retain high pressure gases begambling and I am as poor is ever.

a seal which had belonged to a well- tween the cylinder head and piston,

Retribution deteriorates me! !!! unless a suitable sealing medium

known priest, long since dead. was used, and that medium was the oil which must be of sufficient body to withstand the pressure of the gases of combustion which tend to blow-by between the rings and cylinder wall. "Blow-by destroy

When interrogated, he said that while he was buffeted in the water, (Chief Engineer) and Mr. Harold friction and wear. This breaking he had seen Mr. Patrick Campbelled the ail film, causing increased Beveridge (Second Engineer). They of the oil film also restricted the were in different rafts. He did not heat dow from the piston. (the Chief Engineer), the second seo Captain Jensen, Mr. Jacobsen mate, or the Russian third engineer. He also passed a raft where he noticed one of the thirty women passengers.

There were eight or nine people on each of the four rafts lowered, making an approximate total of 40. Added to these there were about 40 it is therefore reasonable to suggest persons in Nas 1 and 3 lifebonts. that only about 80 persons left the Hain Wah.

..

Are There Others? An official report circulated by the Police yesterday afternoon stated that another survivor had been found on the island and brought back to Hong Kong by a fishing junk. He was Le Yung Po, the Chief Steward. a precarious condition, he was junk arrived in harbour. He is in taken to hospital as soon as the such an exhausted condition that it will not be possible to get a state- ment from him for some days.

In

His rescue, six hours after that of Cheung Shang Fat, suggests that some of the small islands. Le Yung there may be other castaways on Po was also on a raft which drift broken up on a rocky island. ed over 20 miles before it was

be considered was the distribution Another very important faetor to

cused stood in the dock that more It was noticed yesterday as ac than half of his hair was actually missing from his head!

a vision, was a divine object, and This seal, Han said he learned in

enabled its possessor to foretell the future, to heal disease, and to escape injury from sword of rifle.

ed the society of the Heavenly With this real as a basis, he found-

Gates, making some vague state- ment about a god-leader who would soon appear.

Another Chinese blacksmith who worked near Leung Fong said "he overheard accused say in October last that he had stabbed a man to and down talking audibly to him- death. Leung Fong was pacing up. self

Inspector Lane said he was called the murder. to Kennedy Road on the night of He found a young of the oil over the cylinder wall. The piston was depended upon to bid been stabbed but was alive at Chinese lying by the roadside. Ho

A Virgin Birth. spread the oil over the whole erlin-the time. A young woman, But Pai

Han Yu Ming had an unmarried der wall subjected to rubbing con- Fong, was with him. Witness took sister living in the

The oil on reaching the the dying man to the Government Shortly after Han had discovered cylinder wall was wiped by the Civil Hospital but asshe died be

town.

piston rings in the form of a "fore arrival, he was taken instead the seal, and after a considerable With heavy oils the "V" had an to the mortuary,

group had joined the society, she acute angle, which became less acute

Upon this evidence, accused, who gave birth to a boy." Han immed- with lighter oils.

reserved his defense, was committediately declared that the infant was for trial.

tact.

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who

governed the distribution. If the The number of points largely

Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy, Assist the Heavenly" Emperor" points of application were too far ant Attorney-General, conducted the would eventually rule over the Chi- abart, it was evident that that por- prosecution. The defence was in tion of the wall corresponding with the hands of Mr. E. S.C. Brooks

nese people. This statement at- the points of introduction, must reef Messrs. Hastings. Dennys and tracted much attention, and the ceive an excessive quantity of oil Bowley); in order to furnish a sufficient all Sented in the front of the Court story spread rapidly through near-

film midway between the points. It with friends on either side, the by towns, and many person's were

was obvious that an oil too heavy

mother of the accused kept her eyes

in body would not be distributed rivetted upon the Magistrate's face. would spread easily but would re- easily, and an oil too light in body Only by an occasional twitching of sult in wear and loss of piston seal rail in front of her could one tell her hands which she kept on the that she was experiencing emotions at all out of the ordinary.

Some Desirable Points, Mechanical lubricators were: (a) Some of the points desirable in the oil feeds should be independent

oil level or back pressure; (b) sight wore these others may have to be of each other, and also of viscosity, the others, but in large compres feeds should show the correct lubricated direct as well.

or

be

amount of oil actually passing out

Oil must possess exceptionally of the lubricator; (c) the feeds high lubricating value and film The Daily Press learns that a should be capable of quick adjust strength in order to resist wear Coroner's inquest will be held on ment within wide limits; (d) pump and maintain an efficient piston As we pointed out Festerday no interchangeable parts and (e) there quantities. the bodies recovered from the sea. units should be made of standard, seal, although used in very small official Marine Inquiry is possible should be an efficient strainer, and moderate body to assure rapid and

It should as the vessel was

of

and registered at Shanghai. The for adjustment, examination

Chinese-owned the parts should be easily accessible complete distribution and of such inquest will probably follow the cleaning. lines adopted in the ease of the

nature that any carbon formed would be soft, easily removed and Leung Kwong tragedy when

would not interfere with valve special jury was empanelled to in-

operation.

including the adequacy of life-saving vestigate all aspects of the mishap apparatus, the qualifications of the officers, and the absence of the Cup tain from the bridge just before the collision.

(Wah Tez Fat Pus). Official Action,

Fluid friction played an import The heavier the oil, the more power ant part in the selection of an oil,

resistance it had to be exerted to overcome the

induced to join the Heavenly Gates.

the society's members are closely Because of this religious belief,

welded together, and have declined to co-operate with the various armies which have roamed through their

expedient to compromise with the districts since the society was found ed. The warlords have found it

society leaders, leaving the local government largely to them in re

the soldiers. turn for an agreement not to attack

Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang's policy has always been to make an agroe- ment with the various secret 30- cieties in provinces under his control

and he has been successful in enlisting the support of such power- ful groupe as the Bed Spears. But Ordinary oila, not

the Heavenly Gates have remained specially manufactured for circulation sys-aloof, insisting that the baby boy spread, that is, more fluid friction months, whereas high quality oils, side government. Several of Mar- offered to being tems may have a life of a few they worship is superior to any out- had to be overcome. Some people specially refined and prepared, shal Feng's subordinate generals expressed the opinion that oils were would easily, last 10,000 working oils and all alike, but that was not and with a little care, twice as hours under normal conditions, so. Best results would be obtained

other circumstances being equal-long. They would separate quick by using an oil with minimum in- would

ly from water and impurities, they ternal fluid friction.

retain their lubricating properties much longer under ad verse conditions and their margin of safety was much higher..

There were many plants in which

declared there

Air Compresso78.

SHANGHAI, Jan. 18th. In connection with the Hain Wah tragedy Mr. Wang Peh Chun, the Minister of Communications, has It was perhaps safe to say that issued an order holding the director over half the troubles with Diesal

Was no

have fought with Heavenly Gaten troyed their homes. But the society in various districts, and have des members flee into the mountains, and eventually are permitted to return, and direct their own affairs with little interference from the Nationalists.

A Well Armed Body, of the China Merchants Naviga- engines had been in connection it was

During recent weeks there has During the night he heard the tion Company, Mr. Chao Teh Chiu,with the air compressors, and the trouble. There is a long distance been considerable activity among raft smashed against the rocks, and and the chief of the shipping de- general feeling WAK that when the sun rose next morning. Partment accountable for the dis- quality and quantity of the oil and perfection in operation; it uncle of the "Heavenly Emperor,

the between the no-trouble standpoint the Heavenly Gates. Han Yu Ming, foundering of the &.6. Hain Wch thoroughly analysed this question, conditions,.. aster. It is alleged that the used, were responsible. If we was only by analyzing the actual is acting as regent" for the baby, or of his two friends..

carefully

and directs the military movements grouping He had been without food or persenzel of the steamship. The mit, that this feeling was correct. and uning specially selected oils well-armed, having captured eon- was due to the incompetence of the we were practically forced to ad- various portions of the machinery, of the Heavenly Gates. They are drink for almost two days, but he order adds that steps will be taken mustered his remaining strength to to deal with them.

in air compressors, the oil was for each group that perfect results siderable arms and ammunition, and make a tour of the island. To his

subject to oxidation from the com- could be obtained and maintained. they act very much the same sa joy he saw a fishing junk, and

A report from Waglan Lighthouse Pressed, highly heated air. If an Prof. Smith, who had attended the Nationalist soldiers in making Although it was far away by waving yesterday morning stated that the suitable oil was used, the result of students from the University, pro- wherever they go: They levy taxes excess amount of oil, or an un- the lecture with a number of villagers and farmers support them his clothes and arms frantically. mast of the sunken-Hsin Wah was oxidation was the formation of 'posed a vote of thanks to the lec

visible until dark on Thursday

over large areas in three provinces night. It disappeared at daybreak, carbon deposits, which accumulat turer which was seconded by the at present. which suggests that the ship may

ed principally on the piston, President of the Institution, Mr. have heeled right over. The local valves, and in the discharge pipes. Stokes. Over 100 engineering experts agents are awaiting orders from The oil must be fed sparingly and were present including Shanghai before considering the uniformly preferably by means of Capt. Michell, R.N

Engr. question of salvage,

be succeeded in drawing attention. Eescued.

The junk sailed toward him but resque "wes not easy. Many at tempts were made and the bow of the junk was damaged against the rocks before the marooned man was taken safely on board...

(Continued on next Column).

a mechanically operated lubrica tor, to the low pressure. piston.

It was announced that the next lecture in the Institute will be held The Heary Keswick and the Tung The air usually carries suficient on February 8th when Mr. Parker Wah Hospital launch wero again oil from the low pressure stage to will speak upon "The Lubrication searching the islands all yesterday. (Continued on next Column), of. Motor Car Engines."

ment university who was kidnapped A student in a Peking Govern- by the Heavenly Gates and carried into the mountains for ransom, has recently become one of their most powerful leaders. He showed an aptitude for organization, and is declared to be the administrative head of the entire society. N

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