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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1929.

LOST SHÁCKLE PIN.

VERDICT IN KOWLOON, DOCK

11.

·ACCIDENT.

THE CHINESE NOVEL.

HOW PROSE FICTION HAS

BEEN DEVELOPED.

Mr. AB

Better supervision of the gear An interesting lecture on "The used by contractora was recom- Dovelopment of Chinese Pross mended by a Coroner's jury which Fletion" was delivered by Loo Pal-tong in the Union sat before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smithsembly Room of the Hongkang at the Kowloon Magistracy yes- University last evening, Mr. L. terday afternoon to continue the Forster, MA, presiding.

According to the lecturer, the circum- Investigation into stances of the death of a coolic Chinese prose fletion could best be studied in a chronological who was killed by a load of earth order. Before the Tang dynasty, falling on top of him whilst work-fiction, so called, was a collection ing in the No. 1 dock of the Kow-of myths and legends. It was loon Dock Company on August from the Tang fiction that could be traced the beginning of what was now called plot and charac At the conclusion of the eviterisation.

The Sung dynasty saw the in- dence the Coroner addressed the jury. and remarked that the introduction of colloquial style in quiry was Illustrative of the old the writingular literature.

Myle was saying that the strength of a This colloqu chain was the strength of It mothod, the lecturer thought, by weakest link. In the present case which the new literary movement there was a mass of chain and the in China could be so effectually link at one end was in the form of carried out. The colloquial style was successfully developed and a shackle and pin...

applied to the writing of novels The shackle was threaded at in the Yuan dynasty, when the one side showing that the pin was famous novel "Shul Hu, Chuan" presumably also threaded and was produced. The other novel made to screw into the shackle. produced in this period was the The pin, however. was missing.Sun Kuo Chi Yen I," or the story: The Coroner thought if it had been of the Three Kingdoms. These found it would have formed a clue two novels were emphasized by which would have probably ex- the lecturer.. plained the accident. The Court had been told by the Police that a careful search had been made for the pin but that it could not be found.

Evidently the ground was very rough and it was possible that it might have simply disappeared among the stones or it might have been removed.

the

For Chinese literature, the Ming dynasty was an age of decadence. Novels produced in that dynasty, net im- though popular, were portant at all.

Coming to the Ching dynasty, it was found that Chinese prose fiction, like other branches, of literature, reached its zenith of development.

The Hung Lou

Meng" or "Dream of the Red Chamber," was the" representative A Substitute Pin.

work. This great work was fully Continuing, the Coroner said discussed by Mr. Lee; who point- that if that pin had been the pined out that it was written in the which was originally intended for colloquial style which had its the shackle it was dificil to see beginning in the Sung dynasty. how the pla could have disappear- ed altogether after the accident. He would have thought that at least part of the pin would have remained in the shackle.

The Coroner thought that the jury would be forced to the con- clusion that the original pin had very likely got lost and that a substitute for the original pin was being used. If a substitute pin was being used then it was quite inadequate to support the load that was being raised. The Coroner did not think that the pin had been a proper pin.

The other two works which the lecturer considered, were "Liao Chai" or "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". (translated by Prof. H. A.. Giles) and "Ju Lin Hslao Shih."

The lecturer said that he would not attempt to trace the develop- ment in the recent 50 years, but was sure that Chinese prose fiction during that period had been great- ly influenced by Western thoughts through translation.

At the conclusion of the paper, yoto of thanks was accorded to Mr. Lee.

be accepted.

Against Lam Ying's evidence' of a warning having been given

Coming to the question of re sponsibility the Coroner said that the crane belonged to the Kowloon Dock Company while the chain was the property of Mr. Lam Woo, the contractor. It was a rather was that of Mr. Keith who was on the spot shortly before the ac- confusal business as there was a

that he had contractor, a sub-contractor and acident although he did not see the sub-sub-contractor and each was tragedy. He said responsible on different days. It noticed that the men on the dock bottom were exceedingly cureless, was almost impossible Lo

so much so, that he told an Eng where the responsibility arose.

lish speaking foreman to caution

sce

them.

Mr. Keith also said that during the time he was there, and he wak there until the accident occurred, he had heard no whistle "given as a warning. Lam Ying's evidence was very much discounted by Mr. Keith.

Mr Lam Woo, of ecurse, was a contractor in a big way of busi ness and would hardly be expect ed to personally inspect the chain. He seemed to have indicated in evidence that any foreman on the jol should inspect the chain and see that it was in good order hut the suy who was he could not

The next question was how overseer or foreman who should much the deceased was to blame that he have inspected the chain on the and the Coroner said

day in question. In fact he seem thought the jury would agree that ed rather to indicate that the in-whether there were signals or not, spection of the working and the no workman working on the dock' chain would be left to the coolies, bottom should go under an as- themselves. That was, what pro- cending load. The Coroner paint- ed out the possibilities of an ac- bably happened.

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In any case the Court had noted on cranes the Coroner said that been able to find out any fore he had watched them on board man whose particular duty it was ships and had been greatly struck to inspect that chain to see by the risk that they took There that it was safe. The Coroner was no doubt that they took thought that the jury would agree tremendous risks and undoubtedly with him that there had been a total very strict rules should be made want of supervision. Another by employers to protect workmen point was that Lam Ying had against their own recklessness.

Coroner, stated that he had never seen any That, continued the foreman examine the chain.

brought them to contributory The Court had a foreman who started by saying he had examined the chain but later said that he did not. Such evidence equld not persons, other than the deceased, a verdict of death by misadven- tive shackle. They recommended

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the deceased was probably killed-sonally responsible for periodical tions of all working gear on negligence. The jury would agree, who was directly responsible for ture and were of the opinion that that foremen should be held per- however, that there would be dif his death.

After retiring the jury returned as a result of the we ficulty in naming any person-pr

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