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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 8, 1941.
VERBATIM REPORT OF ARP INQUIRY:
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Written Orders.
Was this done yerbally or through lellers passed between you two?-- We have written orders.
DODGERS MOVING AHEAD
ON HOME STRAIGHT
NEW YORK, Sept. 7 (UP),......... Brooklyn Dodgers" continue to move ahead of the 8t Loula Cardinals in the home · streich drive for the National Baseball League pennant, To-day, Dod- gern beat New York Giants in both games of a double-header, while St Louis Cardinals split even with Chucinnati Reds in a similar fixture,
000? There was a subsequent con- and for a bigger size of blocks, than and suggested the use of blocks such tract to the one that you have just those you made. Have you any as those we were making at that, read. That tender was signed by Mr comments to make on that?--I don't time, and finally, we sent in samples Major Baseball Peared (then Acting Director of understand. I don't know why. of a similiar type to the Director tract you got7-Building a Police Public Works) for 100,000, (Two Are you not surprised to hear that? of A.R.P. at the same time giving
contracts produced).
Witness took Station at Takuling.
long time to answer him quotations for them. I thinks the Received Orders What year was that?-After we
and finally replied that he was not date was about September 4 and we had completed the work at Stanley Well, can you tell us how you surprised at all.
subsequently received. from him an again enme to get these two further Well, you are the only one in this order to make altogether 20.000 What was the value of that con- contracts from Mr Pearce?.I re-room who is not surprised. And that blocks.. Those were the Inrger size tract?-Between $30,000 and $10,000. delved the orders by post from Mr price quoted by the Concrete Pro-blocks-10 by 5 by 0 inches.
After thai, did you get any more)Pearce,
ducts Company was according to the You did not approach the PW.D. speelfleations sent out from London, contracts? The next contract had something to do with the play in any way for it, did you?-No. proportion of 1-2-4, while yours And when you got the order did was in the proportion of 14-2%-5- ground at Queen Mary Hospital. That contract was worth about you go and see anybody at the Mine was also about the same M
Public Works?-1 went and
You got that Inquiry and the $2,000,
saw 1-2-4.
D.A.R.P. gave you an order for Don't worry about small contracts. Copl. Hobbs about it.
In your tender it says that quotal 20,000? Yes, 10,000 at
Πτει and What did you tell him?-1 said tions are to be given for 25,000 ex 10,000 later of the original size of I am talking of big contracts.-1)
{this: I have received an order cannot think of any others.
to your works in Kowloon and Hong-18 by 9 fay 9 inches. make 100,000 blocks. He sald: kong,
Is that right? Yes.
What was the quotation for that? Very well, carry on with L. Having And paragraph says: 'Addresses Sixty-seven cents per block Would it be correct to say that completed that 100,000 blocks then of the works asked for in paragraph factory and 23 cents to be added since you completed the work at received a subsequent order and ex Kowloon, Hongkong are to be for delivery, laying in position and Stanley you got no contract from aume as before I went and
BOW supplied. Did you Government until you made concrete Capt. Hobbs and explained it to him. PW.D. or the A.I.P, with the ad. Later on we agreed to a reduction thelling the hollow, walls, with sand. supply blocks?-In 1940 we did some work He told me to carry on.
dresses of your works for making of this price and we subsequently in connection with No. 7 Police Before you got the first order to
concrete blocks?--No.
accepted 83 cents and 20 cents. This make these concrete blocks has your Station to the extent of $20,000.
Site Promised
was mentioned in a letter of Septem- Was that before or after you Arm ever made any concrete blocks?
Why not? In it because you have er 0 which also made the reserva blocks7--Never before. started making concrete
tender to Capt Hobbs he told me that price for
got any?-Defore sending in the on that the price for the second Before.
10,000 should be reduced. would be given a site at the Army duced the total figure accepted being
this wns eventually re Ordnance Depot.
Capt Hobbs knew that you had no
Pen Shelters works? Yes, I told him.
Other Contracts
Does anybody in your arm know see, with the exception of this anything naut morantur,
contract you got no other crete blocks? The foreman, Ng 1o. $20,000
In contract until you started making He lives Shamshulpo but he concrete blocks?-There was another has meals at my firm.
How much do you pay him contract yet in 1040-in connection
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Battery M. Have you got any warehouses? erection of pen shelters way Bay near the Imperial Cheml-September 21 we received a request Yes, at the Jardine's site af Cause-Road West.
Called in the 8th owing to darkness, What happened after that?-On Philadelphi
610 Battery-Blanton, Grissom, Jones, Mar Yan Warren cal Industries.
Is that your only warehouse?—Yes. to tender for 18 by 9 by 9 inch blocks. Boston........... 17 20 How big is it? Only one storey Hobbs and we sent in a
We received the request from Sixty feet by 20 feet roughly.
Battery-None cabled. Capt tender Philadelphia quoting 55 cents What do you keep in this godown?
per block.
Battery Hoersi. Husties, Foday Now Sub-Livingston, Some wooden materials and some sequently, I went to see Capt Hobbs Boston uld tools.
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· Battery,—Early: Berres. sure whether 1 actually called or him-and fow
# sized of 174 by 814 by 314 hiches Philadelphia.......
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later he gave me different Batteryhose, Masterson; Early.
Battery-Marchildon; Hayes, blocks, and on September 30 I sent Washington block. in a-revised tender at 50 cents
Battery-Harris: Wagner. Was your rate of 50 cents per block accepted by Capt. Holba?.........
with the conergies building at Tele-month2---500 and food. We spy graph Day. That contract was worth for his travelling expenses and vari- $10,800.
uus other expenses.
But had he ever made concrete Will you tell the Commission how you came to get this contract for blocks before you got this order?- making concrete blocks?-1 sent in a Not this particular type of block
made for the Government but he tender for it.
To whom ald you send the tender? made certain blocks for cement con
erele roofs. He has ever made this To Capt. Hobbs.
Received Telephone Call particular kind of blocks before. How did you know that tenders were being called for?-Someone-l I see that under the specification|
What is the capital value of all there is a clause here which says that, $1002-More than that, be think a boy Hobbs-telephoned me and asked ing that the contractor in every ense will tween $0,000 and $7,000. to go to the office to get a tender bar the cost of testing the blocks,
$20,000 Net Profit form
That was the first. you knew about concrete blocks being wanted by the A.R.P.?—Yes.
of servant
Capt.
You never saw any announcement in the Chinese Press about it, did you?—I don't remember now.
Do you know why it was that your arm was specially favoured by Capt. Hobbs sending a special telephone message to you?-Very often when tendera were required by Govern ment we were informed to go and get tender forms.
Who used to inform you?-Some- times clerks and sometimes servants In Capt. Hobbs' office.
Did you go to Capt. Hobbs' office when you got the telephone message?
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Spoke In English
And when you get there whom did you see? I saw Capt. Hobbs.
Cost Of Testing
when necessary-1 cannot read it, Is that so, I don't know.
the
Have you ever been called upón by P.W.D. to bear the cost of testing the blocks?--Never.
Do
you know if way of your blocks have ever been tested by the P.W.D.71
know that they have been tested; When?-Every Monday morning the blocks were to be carried to the P.W.D. office for testing purposes,
Do you know if they were actually tested?--I have heard that those blocks that I sent to the P.WD, were
to be tested at the Green Island Cement works.
Did you yourself ever see Uiem lested?~~Never.
Received Complaints
How much has your arm made of this contract? A net profit $20,000.
out of
Do you keep books"—Yes. Will you produce all your books
in them which have entries cerning these contracts? I will.
Yen.
And you have made 425,000 blocks con-at 50 cents each?—Yes.
Where is your yard for making
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Are you performing any other con- the blocks?-Gillies Avenue, moment? We are doing some work work before you got the contract?- nt the And you were doing this class of
stores for the A.R.P. at Shek-O.. in connection with emergency
oil Yes.
For how many years?-We started | What is the value of that con-business in 1033 or 1934. tract?-$51,000,
Contract Completed Supplied Particulars
Have you completed that contract? How did you get that?-By tender-Yes, in July 7. to C.S.O.
And you started on October 27--
Did you ever nee Capt. Hobbs about Yes,
Do you know on what sites your Did you ever get any complaints?-He supplied me with particu-
used?--I ́ under- that these blocks token away for lars for sending the tender. He also blocks have been
stand that our blocks have been used testing were not satisfactory?At gave me a plan.
And on his particulars you sent in almost entirely on the various Kow- Did you speak in English to him? yes. Capt. Hobbs spoke to me
loon sites. that the blocks were not satisfactory, your tender?—Yes.
How long had you known Capt. Yes, in English.
he say why they were not?
Hongkong.
What did he say to you?-He told
Did
me that some concrete blocks werg/ The reason was that the blocks were Hobbs?-About a year after he came | Island?-I believe a few have been)
being made. I was shown a plan and same specifications in English.
Can you read English? A little. And I was told to send in an estimate
the following day.
five
to
As far as you know, none on the
used for the new Urban Council six or seven years ago?-Building. As far as I know, none has been used for A.R.P. sites in Mr Bellamy: You rather com- Hongkong. plained that these blocks that were Can you tell me what is the net not doing tested and which failed had not been proat your firm has made over this
not allowed to dry long enough be- fore the moulds were removed andly" they were taken away for testing purposes.
Your workmen were
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Patriotism And Football Being
Made To Combine
An inquiry into the status of re- presentatives of clubs affiliated to the Chinese Amateur Athletle "Federation, vis-a-vis their relation- ships with the Chungking Govern- ment, will soon be conducted, an the result of a resolution passed at the monthly meeting of the Federa- tion last week.
Bentions were? Yes, 112 lbs. ora rule the testing of blocks should tons provided that they were not tal you a net profit on the whole, but I matter was Arst brought up by a re
It was learned from Mr Mok Hing, Do you remember what the speci. their work properly, were they?-Assiven time to set, but the specifica- contract?-1 am afraid I cannot give the President,
yesterday that the not be carried out until the expira- cement, 211⁄2 cuble feet of sand and tion of weeks after the completion of be tested until after the expiration can say that up to the end of last presentative of the langkong and
of cuble feet of small stones the blocks. If the blocks were made
Witness:
year-our financial year ends on May eluents Union, who pro- I Was not inforned
31-we have
One of which was to the effect that Ing the blocks.
were to be placed in water imme- for testing.
any club which is a member of the Was the size of the blocks men-diately for a couple of weeks and
The Chairman: Do you know to it of this particular contract I willstatus-if-its-registration has either We just want to know the net pro- federation should lose its membership _tloned? —Yes,___1714 by 011⁄2 by 8%.then tested. But before the -expira-
Iaches.
ition of two weeks they were tester which sites your blocks were taken?have to look that up.
been cancelled or refused by the and were not good, because they
Chungking Government The "ather were not long enough in the water.
rule was that any reprezentative of o Where did you make these blocks?
club afiliated to the Federation whose At North Point.
actions have been found contrary to the interests of the Chungking Gov-| ernment or who has been censured or disapproved by that Government should lose its representative stat in the Federation.
Those were the ingredients for moku removed from the moulds they when the blocks were taken away some $11.00 made a net profit oposed two rules.
Three Different Prices Was that in writing or Caul. Hobbs told you verbally?-It was in writing I have this paper here showing the menɛurement.
Well, what price did you quote?- 1 had sent in three or four tenders with regard to the price and the final price agreed on was 48 cents per block.
What was your first price?-12% cents per block.
- transportation, What was
thal?-Delivered at different distrlet divided into A.B.C.
in to say, 43 cents each.
You have one yard?—Yes. You had this before you started making these blocks? No. Not be- fore.
Special Yard For Job
Why Price Was Raised Why was the price rated from 42)
Did he tell you that he had given cents to 43 and then to 487-Because it to another contractor? Yes. Sáng the term for delivering the blocks Lee.
was
Witness: I don't know. Do you know who used to go and
Are you performing any other con- take them away?-Last year it was trast for the A.R.P. or the P.W.D. ? the Sang Lee Company, this year,
-No. the Tung Shan,
Have you got any stock now or have they all been taken away?- We still have a small amount with
us.
Cost Of Moulds
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Have you had any others in con- nection with the A.It.P. 7-No.
So far as you know then, this is the only A.R.P. contract you have? Yes, the caly
caily direct contract we had from thin A..P.
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Subsequently, tha - Residents! Union resigned from the Federa tion as a result of this disagree- ment. Mr Mok emphasised that
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These rules were parsed on the Arsi You got this yard specialty to
At Che request of Mr Tinson, the reading, but when they came up for make these blocks? Yes.
What have you done with the Chairinan asked Witness; You first their second reading one member com So that the position is that with moulds? They are still in our yard. came into this picture
mented, in regard to the first one, that, What was the second price? This that tender for the work of making to make? The wooden moulds about DARP, to give quotations of what made clearer.
Tell us roughly what they cost you blocks when you were asked by the he would like to have the wording of making while he was entirely in favour of it price of 421⁄2 cents was for blocks to concrete blocks you had no facilities $4 each and the iron ones between you be delivered six weeks alter the for sing these blocks?-The first $5 and $0. order received. The next price was I sent in the tender was September
moking 10,000] · The views of this member, according blocks? The first suggestion came to Mr Mok, were that the majority of not for the price of blocks but for 25 and on September 24 I went for Do you know what was the total from me when I sent samples along, the 11 clubs who are members of the
tnal purpose and then I inquired cunt to your firm of taking these
Showed Samples
Federation were not registered with red moulds?-1 think $15,000. whether Government would supply
the Chungking Government. Besides, a site or yard to make these blocks, them now that you have finished the him? Yes and I showed him some compel a club to register, and therefore
What do you intend to do with
Did you have an interview with thero was nothing in the rules to And D.
To this, Capt Hobbs told me that work?--They are useless. And you quoted for that, did you? there was a piece of Crown Land at
samples. Has all this been cal -I did.
Arki as a result of that letters were calculated the Army Ordnance Office and that. And then you. zent the
third
your
proft?The moulds are succeeded in the tender not included in the net profi whoever
$20,000
exchanged? Yes. price? The third estimate was for would get this place for
Since this order from the D.A.R.P.
Heated- Discussion working. 40,000 delivered at the
A heated discussion, said Mr Mok, Central Showroom-Gloucester Bldg, (Corner of East Arcade). Tel, 24704, end of But when I succeeded in getting the
So the $20,000 proot takes into for 20,000 blocks, have you had any
followed during wissen it wa Kowloon Showroom-240 Nathan Rd., (Corner of Jordan Rd:). Tel. 57341. October, the price being $1,300, that work Capt. Hobbs told me that the account the fact that you spent other orders from him direct in con- then
$15,000 in moulds? That is so.
nection with concrete
the proposal be re- vacant ground that ne had referred
blocks? No. suggested that
Into the minutes instead ri corued At the request of Mr Tinson, the All subsequent contracts came from being passed as a rule. The represen to was not available for me.
first contract for the making off Chalemon asked Witness the date of Copi Hobbs,
lative of the Resinents' Union, few* concrete blocks, and the reply was, Blackmore who pointed out that he posai being passed as it stood, and he This concluded the evidence of Mr over, insisted, sald Mr Mok, on his pro-
Jctober 2, 1940. is a long one. The first price was You had to go and rent your own
had only made full sized blocks and was supported by 11 of the 30 represen Mr E. W. Blackmore for delivery at six weeks and the yard? No. I then told Capt. Hobbs
had received no orders for those of tatives present; but the rules of the Federation required A two-thirds final price, 48 cents, for delivery at that since the ground
The next Witness called was E. smaller size. the end of three weeks only a supplied to me by Government for Ltd., who said that his firm were the afternoon.
not Blackmore, of E. W. Blackmore
Hearing was adjourned to this majority and therefore I was defeated: shorter space of time. The terms making these blocks I was not able General fixed for the blocks at 48 cents per to carry on to make the blocks at China Spuncrete Company.
Managers of the South block was for delivery to commence the price of 48 cents per block.. three weeks afterwards and, then
What did he say? He told me to China Spunerele Company?
The Chairman: Who are the South six weeks from the third week when go
and find out which blocks should be delivered every day. nd I could not do it because I dia wo Directors, myself and Mr F. E. Witness: The biggest shareholders
proposal and that the only dis- there was a moon and clear sky over Western Germany, the Was any period fired for the
agreement was on the way to target was found only after skilful navigation, pletion of the contract?It is in the not know which is Government land A, Remedios,
which it was worded.
The target was the chemical, passed and which is not. So he got this Scoliona.
The Federation later held another
underneath The Wellington completed the contract piece of land at North Point for me. Company performed a contract for
méeling at which it was agreed to works at Huls, just north of the front gunnor opened fire but the yot?YCB.
Ic Is it Government land or private the P.W.D. in connection with the
amend the wording of the proposal to Ruhr, an important plant for Nazi returned for another attack, read in effect that any club found pel- When did you complete it?.—A land- is
is Crown land.
MANCHESTER, Scpt (Rehter). ing. contrary to the interests of the the manufacture of buna oren both the front and rear gun- making of concrete blocks. Is that little over a month ago.
So my question is quite corrector-That is so.
A record crowd, including han-Chungking overment or which has aynthetic rubber with which from the Messerschmitt which dived ners fired. There was no answer And when did you start doing it? Before you obtained this tender,
dreds of Lancashire war workers been declared by the Government to be -We
commenced
Have you got the contract here?-- making these neither your or the firm of Song 1. have the original contract and the
Arm
snatchlor a brief respile from their so doing or whose registration has Germany planned to make the straight down. "d
"damaged, probably blocks on October 4, 1940. Not Lee had any facilities of making original inquiry.
labours, to-day saw Ban Castle win either been cancelled or refused by the army and air force independent destroyed," as the
Cu as the crew sald in the commencing petual blocks but commencing to lay after we succeeded in getting wolf cull the contract is a letter from Copt. Anish,
the making of the concrete blocks?--That is so, but
report. After looking at the
the St Leger, the last turf clasele Government, should lose its member of the blockade. the Chairman said: Actually what you document, the
The plant was subjected to a heavy of the season, beating Chateau La hip status in the Federation. This
One Whitley pilot circled and toinbordment, often only from a fow out the moulds,
work wo inquired whether or
proposal was passed a head in a thrilling And you finished a months ago? and would be, supplied for making Hobby dated October 2 instructing Sun Castle is owned by Lord Portal, the Residents' Union which was also
Inquiry
25782-crossed the whole area fer an thousand foot, and many crews re- In regard to the second proposal of nour and half before the navigator morted hits on the dead centre of the
was certain that the right place was target and among storage tanks. you to commence the manufacture of who has an "Important Job In the adopted. Mr Mok and that a represen- "I Don't Understand Why" 250,000 concrete blocks at the rates Ministry of Supply. The awner of tative of the Eastern Athletic Associa
reated. Then he saw h's bomba ex-| Now, how many blocks in all have|
Fires started emitting denso clouds, After the tender had been awarded quoted in your letter of September Chateau La Rose is Mr Harry Morriss, ilon suggested that an inquiry be held
slands mong the buildings and of smoke.. you made for the AR.P.425,000. to you you proceeded to buy the 30. Where is this letter of Septem- Shanghai business man.
legal them ante, of mich representallyr
seveini fires språng up. And they were delivered ex your necessary tools to execute the work, ber 307-The original, inquiry was Lont Glenely's Dancing Time, the in the Federation, vis-a-vis
Other creys had similar experi their ro works, were they not?-Ex the is that right?—Yes."
for 18 by 0 by 9 inches blocks.
only ally in the race, finished third, lutionships with the Chungking Gov.
ine Searchlights ·were avery. workshop.
So we have this position: Sang Les
Original Inquiry
one length behind.
ernment. This suggestion Well, according to this tender that and your firm, neither of which knew
was ap where--one pilot dived within a you have produced here signed by anything at all, about muking con- addressed to the ARP. Architect the lead on entering the straight member from each affiliated club, te was intense.
In your letter of September 24 the hair-milo post, but Mazarin took el a gecial committee, comprising one cape them and anti-aircraft fre Devonian was clear of the field at proved and the Federation has appoint aundred feet of the ground to es- Capt Hobbs, paragraph 7 states: crele blocks, were given a very large (Capt. Hobbs), Delivery is to commence three weeks contract at 49 cents and 48 cents to your inquiry of 21st instant furlongs from home, then Chateau la
bs), you say: "In response Mazarin still held command two | conduct the inquiry, BALK
161) was Toarned that the Teriérator.
Rattling Shrapnel from the date of order at the rate respectively to make these blocks. Where is that inquiry? have Rose went to the front just below the Nex de tramemberthin lixt: il clube of 600 per day and after the sixth Yet Capt. Hobbs knew at that time already handed that in
One Coriadian on his return des week at the rate of 2,000 per day to that the Concrete Products Company.
** dialance but was immediately thalieng- ench of which is entitled to have five tribed the shrapnel fragments How the maximum number of 280,000 firm who specialise in making the jury from Cast Hobbs?Since July Onish with Sun Calle, just addig had her change when he
you come to get this in-od by Sun Carter and Dancing Time in enrerentatives on, the counaliste rattling against his bomber on like
When he alighted from a transport You That is correct.
pada blocks, had offered to supply the Director of ARP an occasions using courses in V2/A seconds.
darky dancer rattling bones plane of the RAF, Ferry Command, August 1940 had seen the Sun: Castle: covered the millo and pls but failed to stay the pre-which was seen. A Messerschmitt 100 attacked Minister of Mustice, and
forging ahendab sandalyáza How do you claim to make 423,
Heyware took the lead on entering the straight Many Nazi-night fenters were his greeted by Mr. En Kopalnike whole amount required at 38 cent
mand-li“ the last Curlong.
#Wellington from astern, then Howe finister of zaun!
Yes.
Made 425,000 Blocks
Gouent land is available and are E. W. Blackmore Ltd who has
there blocks...
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