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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19,

DIVER'S DEATH

' CONTINUATION OF THE

INQUEST

AN OLD RESIDENT

MR. WM. RUSSELL LEAVING

By the retirement of Mr. Further evidence was heard yea-William Russell, Marine Surveyor the Harbour Department, terday in connexion with the death in

by his departure for of an Australian diver, William and Ramsay Stevens, who was dragged Scotland in March next year, the on Colony will loso yet another link to the surface of the harbour September 20, minus the helmet of with the beginning of the present

contury. his diving suit.

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The Mensageries Maritimes' now motor vessel Aramis is ready to take her place of the China servico, and her maiden voyage will commence from Marscillon for the Far East on Oct. 21. The Aramis fa of 21,400 tons displacement, and has necom- modation for 193 first-class pasach. gers, 133 second-class, and 102 third- elona passengers. She is of similar type to the Felix Roussel, and will be the sixth motor vessel in the com-

Mr. Russell camo out to the A Coroner's inquest is being held before Mr. Schofield, and to-day East from Scotland 37 years ago, will mark the fourth day's hearing, and for the last 28 years has been Medicni ovidence given on the firat in Hongkong. With the exception day Indicated that death had been of four occasions, when he pro-pany's service. caused by suffocation, with drown-ceeded Home on leave, Mr. Russell has never left the Colony since ing as a supplementary cause.

A naval export said that death his arrival here in 1904.

On his arrival in Hongkong, was possibly caused by a mistake in

the Marine signals, insufficient air being pump-Mr. Russell joined ed to the diver, who made a Anal Surveyora Department, which then mad effort to get to the surface by consisted of three surveyors. It was not until twenty years later removing the holmet.

that n fourth surveyor was ap- pointed to the Department, but in 1928 the number jumped up to fourteen, exemplifying the growth of the Colony within the past ten years.

Evidence was given yesterday afternoon by the foreman of the surface gang and the foki in charge of the air line.

Fung Kan, the foreman, said the deceased did not give the signal

During the time he was attach- agreed upon when he reached the bottom. Two minutes after the ed to the Department, thousands descent he signalled for less air, of passenger ships passed through and the fokis working the air pump Mr. Russell's hands, his duty be were immediately Instructed to going to issue certificates regarding capacity and Ilfe-saving appara- Alower.

Witness said the next signal was tus. It is rather a unique record four pulls of the rope, which in-that during the whole time not dicated the diver wanted to come one casualty was suffered through to the surface. The rope was the negligence of departmental of hauled up, and for the first few fears, and Hongkong is one of the pulls the weight appeared to be few ports that can boast of this normal. Then suddenly it seemed record. to grow heavier.

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erank-shaft

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been required

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ntbruc adenueing the whole time

tion. Each motor drives with

de- the associated

luge air compressor, which also of the This. he stated,vides for the recharging partment. was principally due to pressure starting air bottles. from the Board of Trade, to bring the Eastern standards into line with B.O.T. requirements. Ai- though the apace assigned to pas- Questioned by Mr. Schofield,sengers was the same to-day as it witness said he saw bubbles coming was twenty years ago, there had to the Surface until the head ap-been radical changes in the re- peared. He did bubble rise.

The first thing witness saw was the hand of the diver. He was not wearing a helmet.

Snow Bubbles Rising. The deceased was hauled on to the barge and laid face down on the deck. The diving suit was ripped open and water flowed ont. Water also came from the dead man's mouth.

Answering

D not Ree

was

of

bigquirements regarding life saving

apparatus.

Present at Coronation,

The

THE LATE ARNOLD BENNET'S LAST LONG STORY

(Continued from Page 3.)

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only important thing, and it wanted some doing."

further questions, witness said the diver had copied the signals in his notebook and

It is intereating to recall that fully understood them. Witness Mr. Russell was one of the long- denied that he had said a signal was given when the diver reached kong delegates who took part in the bottom. In his experience he the Coronation of His Majesty, had never known n diver to fail in King George V in 1910. Mr. Rus- Roland's criticism of it grew sharp-

sending up a signal when bottom was reached.

the

Lam Kan corroborated much of the previous witness's evidence. He said he was in charge of the nir line, which functioned without The inquest was adjourned until

sell was proceeding Home on leave when the Coronation took place,

"I should say it did!" Tommy agreed, savagely.

worsening, His tone was

and

women

er. Millicent (Roland's thoughts and Sir Henry May deputed himran) was a woman, and

Admitted, Phoebe to join the Hongkong contingunt, could be terrible. But Phoebe, also which was sent under Lieut. Cal. Was a woman. Chapman, at that time Comman-could be terrible, she had been, dant of the Hongkong Vosunteer in her hysteria or her neurasthenia Forces. All those who participat- or whatever it was. Phocbo had, ed in the ceremony were decorat-perhaps unwittingly, disclosed her ed with medals that were special-ecret unjust attitude. Neverthe- R. Shaw, R. J. F. Ohl and J. M.ly struck for the occasion: Be-less, Phoebo was fine; she had fine Wong.

a hitch.

to-day.

The jury comprises Mesara, T.H

GALA RE-OPENING.

POPULAR ROSE ROOM OF HONGKONG HOTEL

was

in

absurd,

every while

And Phoebe's quality honestly, sides Mr. Russell, other persons feelings; she could play the game who were in the Hongkong ron-

There must be, there was, tingent included Mr. S. Frith, Mr. imparted a glamour to the whole of G. G. Wood (now of Messrs. Leigh her sex. and Orange), Mr. G. P. Lammert, some touch of Phoebe the well-known local share-broker. woman. It and Mr. McIvor, of the Harbour Phoebe, existed, to generalize in- He recalled imically about women. Office.

Mr. Russell has always taken an the soft look on Millicent's face a active part in sporting activities she sat with Tommy in the lounge Boltons, after Nancy's few What promises to be one of the during his long stay in the Colony, a

although during the past outstanding social events of the years he has imited, his activities inner. He would never forget forthcoming Benson, is the to golf. He has won the Open that look. And now it made him "Oriental Night" at the grand re-Championship of the Colony on hate to think of Millicent fading and ageing and wrinkling, all solit- opening of the ever popular Rose two occasions, and has been

and rich, into the antique Room of the Hongkong Hotel on

member of the Hongkong Lawn ary Saturday next.

No expense has been spared by Bowls Association for 28 years. spinster, and dying before she had During his younger days, Mr. begun to live. The prospect was. the management of the hotel in the re-decoration of the Rose Room Russell was prominently associat-tragic in the extreme; it could not for this occasion, and particulared with the Hongkong Volunteer be contemplated calmly by any man forces, and was an officer for of imagination. And Tommy, who attention has been paid

He was O.C. the said so glibly, "Never againt Never over 20 years. dancing floor of this popular Engineers Corps during the Great again!" Tommy gradually declin- rendezvous.

selfish, self-complacent. The entertainment to be provid-War, the Corps taking over con-ing into the club. Bachelor, self- At the Already Tommy's self-complacency ed in connexion with the gala open-trol of the lights at Lyemoon. Bel-centred. ing is outstanding, and leading chera and Stonecutters. artistes have been secured for the beginning of the war the strength was more marked, and if he had no Fun of the Company was 30, and from one to check it in the closest in- occasion. The famous Joy

this small number Mr. Russell timacles of his daily life, it might Toy Company, who have just con- eluded a successful Benson at the saw it gain a strength of over 300 become unbearable. An old sping- ter was a pathetic spectacle. But the in 1919. King's Theatre, will head

"There have been many changes what about an old bachelor, strid- variety bill, and in addition the new Hongkong Hotel dance band, "The in Hongkong since I came here," ing with false sprightliness along Revellers", will fenture Mr. Martin Mr. Russell said, "and very few Piccadilly from one club to on- Cave in popular songs. Mr. Cavo of the old people who came out other? Would it not have been is noted in England and America; at the same time as I did are left better for Tommy and Millicent to in the latter country he is rated as Lo-day. When I leave next March the second Al Jolson. It is In-I will take away many memories who have become teresting to know that Mr. Cave of associatca actually took part in the Les very close to me, and I will leave Angeles competition that gave the Colony with no little regret." Jolson his "break" in the theatrical

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marry, to have misunderstandings and rows, but to taste life deeply together, to explore the formidable died? If there had been no recon- depths of life, to live before they dite spiritual kinship between them they would never have plighted themselves. Indeed in some ways they were obviously somewhat alike. He, Roland, after diedain- Ing or fearing marriage for years, was now a ddenly an advocate of marriage.

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"This is a now cigar you've got, tion, be arranged by Joo Futera

isn't it?" said Tommy casually, as and his orchestra which will play the waltzes. The old and the the reassembly of Parliament to- he examined the band of a second new will provide a combination that day. The crowded benchas loudly cigar. He had had enough of the should please

the most cheered the Ministers. Sir Herbert great and terrible subject of love Samuel, who sat below the gang- for its counterfeits, and was deter- fastidious,

way on the Government side, was mined to descend to the dailiness of greeted with Liberal cheers and a life.

"Yes. One of my tenants at single Conservative hoot.

Avon

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SEVENTEEN KILLED IN.

TEMESVAR ACCIDENT

Sir John Simon, replying to the Thames Court's a workman or Liberal member, Mr. Mander, said something in the trade, and ho'd the Government recently proposed heard 'somebody say to somebody a meeting of the four principal clac it was rather a special thing, powers with a view to solving the and cheap, and so I bought fifty. dificulty raised by the withdrawal Fancy hearing about a good cigar of Germany from the disarmament at the Court?"

They talked cigars. Tommy sat London, Oct. 18.

conference. The British proposal Soventeen were killed and four- for a conference was accepted by down again, and Roland stood up toen seriously injured in a railway the other three Powers, but so far and shook out the folds of hla accident at the Temavar station, It had been impossible to arrange dressing gown, and went to the (Roumania). owing to a train a place of meeting. The Govern-window and peered down into the fouling the points. Our Own Cormont was considering the next empty street.

(To be continued.) respondent.

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