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CANADIAN

PACIFIC

R.M.S. "EMPRESS OF ASIA"

will sall from

HONGKONG®

for

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

RECENT CEMETERY

LANDSLIDE.

NO LIGHT THROWN ON THE

1 COLLAPSE.

earth.

kong.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1927.

UNION ACTION.,

CREW TAKEN OUT OF NORWEGIAN STEAMER.

LAWN TENNIS.

MRS. R. E. TOTTENHAM RETAINS, LADIES TITLE.

Mr. U. Rumjahn. As one of the tops and operated under charter by holder went the full three sets, the

VICTORIA & VANCOUVER, B.C., or a cold wate

Very

The Norwegian ateamor, Dampto One of the best games of tennis The Coroner's inquiry was hold from Canton at 10 .. yesterday Mrs. R. E. Tottenham, holder of the (Captain K. Holm) arrived in ballast ever played by ladies was that between In the afternoon by Major C. Will morning and reported that on the Ladies Championship Singles, and son, after his Worship and the day previous, offelals of the Seamen's Miss Enid Lo, on the United Servicca. Jury called into the proceedings Union had boarded and ordered both Recreation Club ground yesterday af had visited the scene of the ac-deck hands and firemen on shore. No ternoon in the chalicuge round of cident. The Inquiry concerned reason was ascribed for this action. the Open Singles, run in conjunction the deaths of three earth-coolies, The ship was brought down by the with the Ladies. Recreation Club tour- Ho Yuet, Tank Choi and Ip Pat, six officers on board and on arrival,naments.

she secured to 0.49 buoy, A new The game was watched by a large who were killed by the fall of row was engaged yesterday in Hong-number of lady enthusiasts and soveral woll-known local men players. The One of the witnesses called was

match The Dampto is a vessel of 1,430

der winning by 7-5, 2-6, 0-3 after

hard Guardians of the Mohamedan the Te Tai Hong, for whom Messrs.

struggle. The game last- Cemetery, Mr. Rumjahn anid that Dodwell and Company are acting asing about an hour and a half.

Mirs, Tottenham opened rather or early in September of this year he Kents. instructed Chan Kam, a contrae- In connection with the Union opera played a much steadier game than ratically but throughout the match tor, to effect the necessary. re- the recently instituted boycott against return the ball without using much tions in Canton, it is learned that

her opponent. She was content to pairs to the Cemetery, the con-British and Japanese goods has pro force but always kept good length tracted work including re-ed ineffective in respect of British and often harl Miss Lo on the run. building of collapsed wall. cargoes, but there is a certain amount

The last time witness visited the of trouble with goods of Japanese Occasionally, however, she put across some hard drives but she seldom forc Cemetery to inspect the work in arigin, between the shippers and ed the game. via SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA progress was on October 23, two rumour was current yesterday Adopting more aggressive methods, days before the mishap. He was that the pickets had been withdrawn her strokes and brought off some "put more sting behind all then accompanied by another after being paid off by the Union, but Guardian, Inspector Nawab Khan, no confirmation of this could be ub-exceptionally spectacular drives es- pecially in the second set when sho and an assistant, and they stood tained from vessels arriving yester had the holder benten on several oc- close to the spot where the fall of day,

casions by well placed aide-line shots. earth subsequently occurred.

showed more brilliancy than her There was then no sign of any

opponent but lacked the experience danger.

of Mrs. Tottenham. The match was fought almost entirely from the back line and Although Miss Lo opponent a lot of

to do. running was the first to show signs

The first set wan d ding-dong

strug first game, The Coroner: You ought tole from the very have noticed that the bend there

though there

was nothing worthy of note, during the earlier part of the was sharp.

match both players driving from the back of the cours and winning most- ly by each others inaccuracy. first four

Miss Lo took the

and the server. eller at til ve all all went a against the the challen-

at

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witness to be quite safe, and for Two days afterwards, at 4.30 in the reason, also that the earth at the afternoon, the Guardians' as- that spot was compact. sistant telephoned to witnese, who was then in his office, that serious accident had occurred and, several persons had been buried under a fall of earth.

When

n

witness arrived at the

Witness: I had visited the spot, Cemetery half-an-hour later, be that same morning before the saw a woman, who was still alive. accident, and did not see anything being carried out in an

Amamiss. bulance. He also saw a man in a Did you notice any cracks?-I standing position with the earth had looked for these cracks but up to his neck, being extricated. found none. That man was already dead.

Heavy Rains.

gave

her

site

of

tiring

After

was called when the holder got the ger won the odd game

eleventh and the set in the next. In reply to another question,

Miss Lo showed better accuracy in witness said that whatever in her placing in the second set and her stractions he had to give

driving was more effective, were leading five gumes, to love, she took Replying to the Coroner, wit-transmitted

to the workmen by the set at 6-2. ness said he thought heavy rains the sub-contractor who employed In the final net, the challenger enused the collapse of the wall in them. This was Chung Sau. showed signs of tiring and in com 1926, and the contractor who was Have you formed any ideas as parision with her play in the second employed in rebuilding the wall to the cause of the accident? set she gave a very indifferent. ex- when the landslide occurred had Witness replied he had not. The b

hibition. After losing the first two been habitually employed by wit-slope was not wholly covered with games she took the third and fourth but lost the next two, The ninth ness in connexion with all these grass, and even if these cracks game was the only other one she got repairs to the Cemetery,

had occurred.in the covered parts,in this set, which she last 6-3. Mrs. In reply to another question, he would have detected them. Tottenham thus retaining her title for wilness also said he expected Chan The Foreman of the Jury:: Why the second year in succession. Kam

to be responsible for the wasn't shoring put up there?

That could not be done. The jured, but three others, who were slope yna low and slanting..

buried under a heavy mass of Chan Kam, who was next called, The Foreman: Was your sub- said that he received instructions contractor a competent man? I earth, were not extricated until to repair the damaged wall and consider he is competent. I have P.m. They were dead, and their also any channels damaged by the always employed him and have

bodies were later identified by rains, in the Cemetery.

him. known him between ten and It was his custom, after having twenty years,

At this stage, the Coroner de- entrusted the work to

cided to adjourn the inquiry until In reply to another question, Monday afternoon. a sub- contractor. fo inspect the work witness and that no, rains oc- every morning in order to see curred in the two days before the Forder (foreman), Mak Kam-yuk The jury were Messrs. George how well it had progressed. From accident. As a matter of fact, he and Tsu Ho-tseung. time to time, when this was neces-added, the work was purposely sary, he gave instructions as to held over until the rainy weather how the work was to be carried had terminated.

work and to employ any sub- contractor he thought fit.

SUNDAY EXCURSION 13TH NOVEMBER 1927. In other words, he was au- The sub-contractor, Chung Saù,

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