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“SUI AN” ENQUIRY.

SATURDAY,

DECEMBER 9, 1922.

-Yes, I have sometimes wondered Can you give any reason why he should make remark like why they were approved..

because 1 Answering Mr, MA Messer, the that?-Unless it was Capt. Biras Gives Evidence. Captain said that the Company had stopped them from searching for

(not interfered with the guards.

Don't you think it would be better

Captain R. A. Birss, the Master

opium.

Did you think they used to search for opium-Yes they were

You think they did not like your'

of thể Sui An, was the chief wit-if all four guards were on the very keen on it. ness at yesterday's sitting of the bridge!--How can I have four Commission appointed to enquire guards on the bridge with a crowded] refusal?—No. into the Sui Au piracy. Mr. J. Rship. Sometimes 1 Sundays I Wood presided and all the Com- have 20 European passengers

missioners attendeda

Mr. F. G. Vaux, was present, re- presenting Capt. Birsa and the Imperial Marine Service Guild.

Capt. Birss said he had been Master of the Sui An since 1916, the vessel was built in Shanghai.

stant istle boat.

an

Replying to further questions. the witness said he did not draw the Chief Officer's sttention to You say the construction of the the piracy regulations for the reason that he had only been an ship is bad ---She is not big enough the ship a few days and he be What is your idea of the best pos-lieved that he was fully acquaint- sible way to resist piracy-1 haveed with them. The Chief Ea- talked it over many times and some gineer, too, should also have been seem to think the best way is to put well acquainted with them as he your hands up, and some to make a had been in the service of the fight of it. If you put up a fight Company for a very long time. on the sight of November 19th, the chances are, as happened on the Capt. Birss, in answer Capt. Birss said that just before Tai On, thes would burn the ship Davidson, said he did not instruct and a lot of innocent lives would be lost.

Talks With the Woman.

Relating his personal experiences

con-

entering Marso harbour, he saw a Chinese man and woman sitting on deck. He entered into

Asked whether he thought the versation with them.. "I said: You speak English very well and Diracy Ordinance of any use, Capt. he said: 'Yes.' 1 said: Where Birss said it was a little, but not have you been, and he replied: much. It would be of very little have been in Canton. but I was use with a desperate gang on board. bora in California. Does your In this case they might have been wife speak English?" I asked and able to put up a fight, but they would he replied: "Yes. They were tra-have lost in the end and many lives velling first-class."

might have been lost.

The Chairman: Did you see these people come ou again in the

afternoon?

to Mr.

the Chief Engineer to lock the entrance to the engine room. He admitted that it was very trying down there in the summer months.

The Woman Pirates. The Chief Quartermaster, the Compradore and the Portuguese Tallyman also gave evidence.

The Compradore said the attack' was commenced shortly after the passengers' fares had been col- lected.

Questioned by Mr. Lake as ત

The Tallyman, asked if he' whether be considered the defensive noticed any weman on board be- measures on the Sui An effective, noticed a woman in a blue dress fore the piracy occurred, said he the Captain replied in the negative.board the vessel at Macao. She Can you think of any improvement travelled second class. When the to them the outer grill had ring started the woman jumped Capt. Birss, proceeding, stated been a little forward on the bridge up from her seat and went towards that after giving the Chief Officer deck, we might have had some the guard. She fired a shot at the course to steer, he

him and the guard returned the

Capt. Birss: No, but I understand they came back with the ship and landed with the pirates,

left

the

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bridge at 5.83 p.m. to see two Have you ever suggested that to fire. friends from Shanghai who were!

How old was this woman About 17 years of age.

Was she wearing stockings I— She was well dressed with silk clothes.

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Did you notice the colour of shouted "Pirates" someone English. He immediately rush.d would not work.

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Mr. Shenton handed Capt. Eires a

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Witness added that he" saw trade mark, and you the Indian guard fire at the woman, but could not say whe most comfort

her she was hit. He did not see He put a second woman pirate.

The Chairman: Did you see any cops of the police regulations for of the men at that zime?

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At this point the anquiry was

Capt. Birsa: Yes, there were one for two about on the starboard side. A

Capt. Birss said he noticed two in a letter, addressed to the Cap. guards. They immediately rangtains, dated January, 1911. saying adjourned until Monday, when Mr. the alarm bell and he told them that all offers on date should carry. Arnold, the Manager of the fellow him to the bridge. He had handed pistols and understanal Company, and Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, only got as far as the engine room their use. Correspondence with the the Captain Superintendent of skylight when he was shot from

Captain Superintendent of Pulice Police will probably be called. behind.

A Losing Fight. The Chairman: Did you see any shots coming from the direction of the first-class?

Capt. Biras: No. When I was lying on the bridge deck one of the pirates rushed up to me and felt my person to see if I had any arms

arding the testing of afes and ammunition was also put in.

Mr. Shenton: A suggestion was made by one of the witnesses that sometimes you countermanded the orders of the police?-No. I have not.

Grills a "Make-Believe."

TALES OF POLITICIANS.

Lord Bryce, in his "Studies in Contemporary Biography." give an amusing account of the effect

produced on rustic audiences by E. A. Freeman when he stood

The witness stated, in reply to 03 me. I was left there. Some further questions, that there were time during the night one fellow many other considerations besides for one of the divisions of Somer came along and looked into my piracy in the conduct of a ship. In setabire in 1868, at one meeting: face and hit me with the butt end river boats, fire was the greatest referring to Ptolemy Eaergetes. sof his revolver on the head. Aboat danger. Since he had been with and at another launching out half an hour afterwards the same the Company he knew of three into an eloquent description of min came back and repeated the ships that had been destroyed by the Landesgemeinda of the Uri."

When Thackeray stood as blow twice. Next, I heard a con- fire. He considered that for de- sultation among the pirates, and fensive purposes the grills were Liberal for Oxford City the free! men of the borough, according I believe they said they were hopeless-"a make-believe." going to throw me overboard.

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were not an exemplary class of the Sui An?-Yea.

The Chairman: One thing that interests us very much is whether!

travelling any of the pirates were Grst-class?

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pleaded with them that I had done them no harm and asked them not to kill me. I was partly dragged) Assuming it had been possible voters) by declaring that though

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retreated and they did not understand My and partly carried into

have put up a fight, what would Thackeray's speeches, or know where I was locked up.

have been the position of the first who he was, they would vote for him, expecting nothing because! class passengers?-Quite a lot of

he was friend of Mr. Neate's." them would have been shot.

Apropos of authors Capt. Eirss said the guarda had instructions to rush to the bridge Herbert Paal in his "Life

politicians, a story told by Mr.|☀ I understand there when an alarm of trouble break Froude," seems worth quoting. Capt Birss: were gutae travelling Erst-class.

ing cut was given. That, he be His buller, saked by a canvasserAlso a shipment of In reply to further questions, the lieved, was what they attempted what his master's politics were, Captain said that if Le and the to do in this case,

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bridge they might have been able they could get to the bridge. is sometimes & Conservative.in new shapes and

to put up a hight, but it would have of arms by officers popular or an- Mr. Fronde is always a Liberal.' ” been a losing fight It would have

Mr. Shenton: Is this carrying When the Conservatives are ic.

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KRYPTOK LENSES

been another Tai On. They would Capt. Birse: Very unpopular. have burnt the ship. The guards Quite a number of men are afraid fought very well. They could not of them.

more. They were outnumbered.") Capt. Birds expressed the are the most perfect double focns Commander Beckwith: Have you opinion that a ship's officer to glasses for both reading and laid down any positions for Eur carry out the piracy regulations distant. In the ordinary bifocal Sopean officers and the guards in the properly bad to be, "a bit of a lens, the segment or part for reading is cemented to the distant event of any alarm of piracy being Captain Kettle."

Mr. Vaux asked if, in the event lens, raising the segment above; of the guards häving the fall the surface of the main lens. The amount of ammunition, it would segment and the line of union are The Chief Officer had only been have been easier to prevent alwave more or less noticeable. with me three or four days. I had piracy?

In Kryptok lens, no cemeat is previously discussed the Tai On

Capt. Birss: My dread was used, hut the reading Bezment is piracy and agreed that the best that in the event of any of the electrically fused in a depression position to get to would be the being shot it would be a big cap in the main lens, while the whole bridge.

ture for the pirates. I keep all lens is ground smooth on both to the desired focus, If you had not been shot down the ammunition in my cabin, and rides

ziven;

Capt. Birsa: For the guards only. I

"dodzers," where you had your

ou would have got behind the can get it at a moment's notice. Kryptok lenses of any prescrip- If you had had your revolver tion in either regalar or Toric en you do you think it would have form are manufactured by The Hongkong Optical Co., successOTI been of any use to you?-Well,

ms and ammunition, and have

made signals by rockets-7es. I should not have been here to-day to Clark & Co., Optical Prescrip

If you had got rockets away would here have been any chance of them

ing seen-I do not think so. It might have had a demoralising effect if you could have fired a few ckets Yes They might have seen them from Macro.

if I had had it. Mr. Melle told tion Specialists, located in 53. me that if they had found fire oeen's Road Central. arms on me, they would have shot me dead.

Guards Looking for Opin

I see. that previously one of the Indian guarda said you changed Have not the two after hatchee the orders of the police?-I am aver struck you as being dangerous not aware of it.

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