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APRIL 18, 1929.
INDIAN WARDERS
KILLED.
CONDEMNED PRISONER RUNS AMOK.
OUTBREAK IN SHANGHAI GAOL.
The warder opened two cells in each of which three men were quartered. He was going to con- duet the prisoners to the infirmary for medical inspection." rushing the warder, the nine pri- soners overpowered him and one of them struck him on the head with a heavy metal object.
Suddenly
MARINE COURT CAMEOS.
[BY HUMANIST.''}
it in water.”
ob-
The Naval Canteen is not in the middle of the harbour served, the Harbour "Master.
the stern of her sampan," stated "I saw her trailing a las over
a European police sergeant.
"And I," declared a constable, *saw her lifting, her grapplings itboard."
POLICY OF ECONOMY
H.K. ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION CO., LIMITED.
BETTER PROSPECTS IN SHANGHAI
ried out their policy of economies' during the past year, but the
balance for 1998 was still on the reverse side and represented a loss of $99,661.55.
A delightful odour, reminiscent of Causeway Bay at low tide, per- IE the Committee Room of
vaded the atmosphere of the Court, and caused the Clerk to anecze Lloyd's in London last month, Mr. A. R. Mountain, the chairman, pre-
(UP):-Germany has
Shanghai, April 11-A desperate violently as the sampan mistress, Mr. R. G. Shewan, speaking.trom sented Lloyd's silver medal for to-day only one-seventh as many attempt to regain his liberty by entered the dock. --
the chair at the 7th ordinary yearly meritorious services to Captain millionaires as it had before the shooting his way out of gool was "You were dredging within the meeting of the Hong Kong Engin Albert Himsley, master; Mr. Wil-war, according to official statistics made yesterday by a Chinese primander alle
Naval anchorage," "declared Cameering and Construction Co., Ltd., liam Muckle, second engineer; and which have just been issued. Its soner who was under sentence 'of "No savec," replied the defen-held yesterday in the offices of Mr James Murdoch, "fourth en-citizens whose personal wealth death in Ward Street Prison, tant promptly. I losee anchor Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Cole said gineer, of the British motor-vessel totalled, more than a million marks Shanghai. The attempt followed at Naval Canteen and look-see find that the Company had strictly car British Courage. The chief officer, at the end of 1927 numbered only immediately upon na attack made Mr. Arthur Halerow, who was also 9,833 as compared with the 13,317 upon a European warder by a awarded the medal, was unable to
men and women who in 1913 wars number of other prisoners. present, as he is now in com-recorded as possessing fortunes of mand of an Admiralty tanker.
hat gize or larger. In the same In the course of his address the period the total national wealth Chairman of Lloyd's said that they declined from 157,100,000,000 gold welcomed the master and officers in marks to 97,800,000,000 reichsmarks. order that they might try to tell
In 1913 there were 299 Germans them of their admiration for yet with fortunes exceeding ten million another story of heroism which | marks; to-day there are only 33 who they had added to the glorious are as wealthy.
The number of annals of courage and determina-persons with real estats and other tion at sea. The leadership of Cap- property valued at more than tain Himsley, and the voluntary aid of all those serving under him, proved how safe were the traditions of the sea in the hands of auch gallant men typical of the Mercan- tile Marina. He recalled that the British Courage, a steel screw motor tank ship of 6,952 tons gross, with a crew of 33, when on a voyage from Abadan to Grangemouth with a cargo of about 9,000 tons of crude oil, left Port Said on December 3. About two days later fire broke out and it was apparent to Captain Himsley that the outbreak was very He sent out at 8.0.3., with his position. Shortly after wards the chief engineer, who un-
serious.
fortunately had since died of his injuries, staggered out of the en- gine room with his clothing ablaze and by this time the whole of the top of the engine-room was a mass of flames which were as high as the
funnel.
3,000,000 marks has fallen from 2,791 to 465. Of this latter group, 170 are worth more than five million marks, and of these 72 are great
landowners.
Convict Shot,
The condemned prisoner took the warders revolver, fired a shot o an unarmed Indian warder, killing him instantly, and fore along a corridor at the end of which an- other unarmed Indian attempted to stop him, disregarding the pri soner's threats. As he attempted to close with him, the convict fred another shot and the warder, was fatally wounded:
Poor Doctors,
By this time the European warder Lower Silesia has the largest had recovered. Securing a revol number of wealthy landowners or farmers with 17; Bavaria has 8, the to where the condemned prisoner ver, he rushed along the corridor province of Saxony 6, Schleswig- was attempting to rally his com Holstein 6, Upper Silesia 3, West-rades. Dazed and only in a half phalia 4, the Rhineland 4, Branden-
condition, the warder burg 3. Pomerania 3, Mecklenburg shot the convict dead just as he Schwerin 3, and East Prussia 2.
The raised his revolver to fire. remaining prisoners immediately surrendered.
Of the larger cities, Berlin, with 200, has the most millionaires. Next in line comes Hamburg with 112; then follow Leipzig with 55, Frank- furt-an-Main · 48, Cologne 48,
Munich 42, Dresden 39, Duesseldo:1 35, Stuttgart 30, Bremen (which before the war had 177) 21, Chem nitz 41, Ennover 18, Essen 13, Bres lau 19, Cassol 10, Wiesbaden 10, and Koenigsberg 5.
In the capital there are 18 mul- As the water supply then failed timillionaires-persons worth more and as, owing to the great heat and than five millions each--and of these smoke, it was impossible for anyone two are farm owners, five are bank-- to remain on the poop deck, anders or industrialists, tez are owners there was the possibility that at of city property, and one has his any minute the fuel tanks in the wealth invested in securities and engine room might explode and in other mobile capital. Thirty-nine turn explode the cargo of crude oil, Berliners have between two and a Captain Himsley gave the order to half and five millions, while the take to the boats, but before be fortunes of 933 are rated somewhere himself left he went into every part between one and two millions of the accommodation in order to ensure that all the crew had got Lway.
conscious
At the time of the disturbance, Over 1,000 convicts were out of their cells either in the workshops
The Chairman was supported be Sir Robert Há Tang and Mr. J. Scott Haratou (directors) and Mr. "Alle same, no saree," porsist-J. Buchanan (acting secretary). ed the defendant dispassionately.
***I am afraid," remarked Com mander. Hole, you will have to pay $10. You will learg better in intura"
The case
was ended, but the melody" lingered on,
A life on the ocean wave is better than going to sea!
words of the old Naval ditty prob
The Chinese equivalent of the ably ran through the mind of the next defendant, who was charged with dumping refuse into the bar. bour from a sampan.
"Allee same big steamer- make into water, be declared. sampan very rocky. Cargo fallee
old and broken baskets over the I saw him throw a number of
side," declared a constable...
"I losee my hat, too, ventured the defendant sadly..
Humph! And you will lose 83 by way of a fine," concluded the Harbour Master.
The launch had no lights at|
or exercising in the yards. They all, Your Wership," said a police were excited by the noise of the sergeant. "There was plenty of shots but were marshalled and traffic in the harbour at the time, taken back to their cells so quickly too." that they had no time to join in the revolt.
The inquest on the dead warders, Chanda Khan and Shahab Din, was opened by the British authorities identification this morning. Only evidence of
WILS
Commander Hole dipped his per in the inkwell and tried the nib on the blotting-pad before him. demanded.
*What have you to say " be
out
which the proceedings were
taken. after lights," declared the Chinese cox
curved until April 24
NO PRIVILEGES FOR MILLIONAIRE.
SINCLAIR TREATED LIKE
OTHER --PRISONERS.
Shareholders present were: Messrs. A. A. Botelho, Thos. D. Chanatong, M. Fernandez, M. A. Figueiredo, MA. Gomes, G. Grimble, and C... Strafford.
CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH.
The Chairman addressed the meet-
ing as follową:--
As copies of the Report and Ac counts for the year ended Decumber 31, 1998, have been in your hands for the prescribed period, I propose with your approval to take them as read.
We have strictly carried out our policy of economies, but we could
not, of course, do it all at once, and there are still reductions to be made, the benefit of which will only be felt in this present year. But we have succeeded in making redue- tions which have brought down our
general charges from about $6,100 per month to $3,800 per month, 82,300 per month or over 827,000 per which means a saving of some annum, and we shall make a further saving of about $800 per month dar ing the latter part of this year.
Balance Stili on Reverse Side' In spite of all this, we regret that the balance for 1928 is still
"Plentee big wind blow
on the reverse side and represents ad-swain from the dock;
loss of $28,561.55 for the year. It must have, blown the lamps | But this loss ia arrived at after.... themselves into the sternsheets, allowing 250,746.47 for depreciation Your Worship" commented the and is, therefore, a substantial im sergeant drily," for that was where provement on 1997 which showed a I found them."
loss of $52,029.93, included only $25,078.23 for depreciation, that is ignoring depreciation the gros profit for 1929 is $22,194.99 against a loss of $24,951.70 in 1987, an im- provement of 847,136.69.
Washington, April 9. Mr. Harry F. Sinclair, multi-millionaire petro- leum producer, muat begin serving
The ooxswain locked anxious.
Plenty big wind," he pleaded. "And it failed to blow you any good," observed Commander Hele to the defendant. "You must pay a fine of $5 or else you will go to prison for a week.
He paid..
Our cash position is about $10,000 lower than at same time last year, but against this we have remitted some $16,000 to Shanghai and ex- pended a further $18,000 on the three new Franki Piling sets, in addition to about $14,000, on new garages and stores at our depôt in Kowloon. The liquid position of CLASH WITH POLICE; MANY the Company, in also about 834,600
ARRESTS.
better than last year,
ROW AT COMMUNIST'S
FUNERAL.
Bucharest, April 8-A turmoil occurred on the occasion of the faneral of Communist in the town of Temesvar, when the friends of the dead man defied the orders
The average wealth of all persons gainfully employed or who have their own business is, according to Return to the Ship.
the statistics, 14,000 marks, about The two boats were in charge of half of what it in 1913.
#19 the Master and Chief Officer, Arranged by classes, the wealth of respectively, and after proceeding the average actor, musician and about half a mile have to in a very artist is 2,581 marks, the average rough sea for about two hours. tailor 14,781 marks, the innkeeper The British Courage was during 12,808 marks, the tobacco dealer the three monthe gaol sentence this time still-burning a fiercely 10,619 marks, the butcher 9,785 imposed on him for contempt in as ever. As no explosion had oemarks, the baker 9,139 marks, the connection with his refusal to curred in the engine room and as gardener 7,410 marks, the shoe-testify before the Senate committee the flames could be seen creeping maker 7,007 marks, and the average investigating the oil scandals in along the boat deck, Captain dentist or physician 6,601 marks.
1924, early next month. Himsley decided to return to the
The millionaire will be treated ship in an endeavour to put the
As a common prisoner and will not fire out on the boat deck. He call
be granted any especial privileges. Mr. William Heslop Muckle, Rules of the prison forbid him to ed for volunteers, and with 16 mem- bers of the crew returned to the his own initative requested permis- tion from his family or friends.
Second Engineer.-Mr. Muckle ou
receive food or other special atten- British Courage, when by obtaining sion to transfer to the Captain's buckets of water from the sea and boat and return to the ship. When
Mr. Sinclair will not be given swamping the deck they succeeded they arrived on board the Second any comforts other than those of the police. in putting out the fire on the boat Engineer, again on his own initia granted ordinary prisoners," the deck. Their attention was then given to the engine room, where,
tive, succeeded in finding his way prison warder sid down to the boiler room and to the with the aid of water "and sand,
steam stop valve, so that steam was the fire was eventually overcome about, 5.30 p.m. The fire was not Available for pumping water into entirely extinguished, however, as doubt that without this action an the engine room. There is little there was still some smouldering his part it would have been impos- the engine rooia, store room, and in the "tween decks, but the former sible to put out the fire. was eventually put out and the latter were battered down. The crew stood by all night, as the boat "deck was bursting into dames now and again, and the outbreaks had It was not until 3 p.m. on Decem to be dealt with as they occurred. ber 6, some 27 hours after the original outbreak. that the fire was completely and finally extinguish- ed. He was proud to point to the conduct of all on board the British Courage.
The Awards.
Mr. James Murdoch, Fourth En- gineer. Before the ship was aban- doned Mr. Murdoch, of his own ac- cord, ran down the ladders, and made his way through the jacket cooling pump, by which auxiliaries and switched on the means sufficient water was obtained to utilize the hose.
The millionaire's sentence was confirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States yesterday..
OPIUM AND TONG WAR.
MANILA NEWSPAPERS
INDIGNANT.
Shots were exchanged and five members of the police force injured. Later on, the police succeeded in arresting 250 Communists.
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Besides this, we have practically re-valued building, plant and machinery, and written off some 233,000 to cover the lower valua
tion.
Franki Files. You may say why is so much de
Well, our Preciation necessary. auditors think it advisable to put
those items which were in the
of preliminary expenses. It is believed that the incident nature will induce the authorities to in such as expenses incurred in creat croduce a new law for the suppresing the Fraaki Piling business at sion of Communism.
Shanghai, and the loss entailed in training men for our pipe-making factory and the consequent loss in spoilt and damaged pipes during the process, on a safer footing, and We bave, therefore, written of $10,000 from the former and $2,800 from the latter item. Both of these branches of our business are now in
HİNDENBURG'S ILLNESS.
RUMOURS DISCOUNTED.
Berlin, April 7.-Contrary" to
It is stated that the Reichs Pre-
Manila (U.P.):-Fifteen-gambling Manila's Chinatown, the Philip various sensational rumours cur- & sound position. To meet, the and opium dens are operating in
rent here, a communique issued to demand at Shanghai where vur pines Herald says. This fact is coupled with tong wars in a subec day gives reassurance concerning Franki Piling is much liked, as it a. Save the ship.
quest editorial as reason both tor
is specially suited to the soft nature Hindenburg.
of the soil there, we ordered three There was one fact, the chairman rigorous police action and for de the health of Reichs President von
portation of undesirable Chinese. added, that he would like to cm- phasize-namely, that when these peaceful Chinese, the sane
There can be no doubt that the rident, who during, the last few new sets of the piling equipment, two sets going almost continuously. gallant men returned to the ship, and elements in the Chixiere cond days suffered from an attack of in- and bere in Hong Kong we have had
luenza combined with stomach It was
As for our centrifugal pipes they felt that certain taking their lives in their hands,munity, will approve the deportacrouble has already sufficiently re- casey stood out
are now well established on this as particularly they did not do so to save life, but tion of Chinese gangsters and covered so as to attend to his work. meritorious, and it was in these to save the ship herself. cases that the Committeo of Lloyd's After the presentation the officers roughnecks," comments the Herald.
Acting, however, upon the advice market and are a great improve- In similar vein the Tribune re-
of his physicians, he will preservement in every way on the old glazed were escorted round the Underwrit marks that the local Chinese con his strength for important business
earthenware article.. had decided to award Lloyd's "Silver Medal for Meritorious Ser- ing Room by the Chairman and
·vices, namely:----
Crier" had previously scunded Captain Albert Himsley, whose action as Master before abandoning the Lutine bell twice, and informed the ship and particularly in decid- the members that Captain. Himaley ing to go back to the vessel was was making a tour of the room: beyond all praise. The danger of A subsequent presentation WAY explosion was so great that no blame could have been attributed to him had he refrained from re- 1urning to the ship. There is little doubt that his decision to return was a decisive factor in saving the ship and a striking example of courage and devotion to duty.
members of the Committee. The su}- general has promised to take until his health has been complete affairs in the North we have not
action against members of the tongs ly restored, that have converted Manile into a battleground and finds that at- titude praiseworthy." urging that the insular government should not made to the three officers at Britan- be weak-kneed or vacillating" nic House, the headquarters of the British Tanker Company, Captain Himsley receiving a handsome ser- vice of plate and the two engineer officers each a gold watch.
SMUGGLING LETTERS. ATTEMPT IN PHILIPINES FRUSTRATED.
Owing to the disturbed state of been able to start work at Tientsin. As to the question of reducing our capitel and writing off the heavy ROTARIANS ASSIST NEEDY. losses incurred at the inception of this Company, this matter still re- London, Lord Byng, Commis, mains in abeyance for the present. sioner of the Metropolitan Police of The report and accounts were un- London, has approved a scheme of animously adopted on the proposal co-operation between the police and of the Chairman, accended by Mr. 250 motor-cars owners belonging to G. Grimble. Rotary clubs in London, whereby they will lend their automobiles and
Other business transacted by the drivers free to needy persons in any cases of emergency daily be-meeting was the re-election of Sir Robert Ho Tung, and Mr. J. Scott tween midnight and ¤ àm..
OTHER BUSINESS.
Lord Greenway, President of the British Tanker Company, who Mr. James Arthur Halcrow, Chief made the presentation, said it was,
Manila (U.P.)-Customs authori- Officer. The Chief Officer is respon- perhaps, not too much to say that
ties frustrated an effort to amuggle sible, under the vessel's fire regula gallant actions were almost a com- tions, for the active measures for monplace in the British Mercantile 418 letters into China without pay-The Rotarians, representative of Harston as directors on the pro reason ment of postage, in violation of the professional and business men, are posal of Mr. AA. Botelho Lecond- fighting fire. Captain Himsley re Service, but that was no ported in the warmest terms on Mr. why they should not moet with Philippine postal faw, before the thus pledged to expand the worked by Mr. M. Fernandez; and the Halcrow's courage and activity be ready and hearty appreciation, steamship Tang Stung left Manila. of the Raint Pancras Botary Club, re-election of Messrs. Lowe, Bing The letters were placed in a tin which has been giving assistance ham and Matthews as auditors on a fore the ship was abandoned, and The British Tanker Company and with what alacrity Mr Halcrow the Anglo-Persing Off Company sixarette case, wrapped and sealed during the past three years to rela remuneration of $800 per annum on responded to his invitation, not were particularly proud of these All were conveyed to the Bureau tives of invalide who cannot afford the proposal of Mr. T D China order, to return to the ship. officers who had so splendidly exem- of Posts and handed over to the to hire taxicabs when summoned to tong seconded, by Mr. M. A.
Figueiredo. 'dead letter section:;:
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