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JUDGMENT IN APPEAL.COURT.
ALIEN MASTERS ON
BRITISH SHIPS.
EXPLANATION BY THE ADMIRALTY.
"The Press Bureau has issued the following-
In the Court of Appeal, before The speech by Sir W. Watson Lords Justices Bankes, Warrington Rutherford, M.P., if correctly reported and Duke, the case of the North in Time, conveys the impression Shipping Company, Ltd. (of New-that90 alien masters" have been v. the Union reinstated since the armistice, which castle-upon-Tyne) Marine Insurance Company, Ltd. (of is incorrect. London) was heard upon the appeal of the plaintiffs from a judgment of Mr. Justice Bray.;.
Plaintiffs brought, the action for the return of Maid up" premiums due on a policy of marine insurance, dated April 3rd, 1814, on the steam ship North Britain, which belonged to the plaintiffs.
The facts were these:-The vessel received orders to go to Portland Harbour, and she proceeded there, and finally moored on 26th September She remained there awaiting orders till October 14th, and then she was ordered to go alongside HMS Formidable, and she began bunkering her.. Subsequently she returned to her anchorage, and in ensuing days did similar service for a variety of other vessels. All this time she was acting under Admiralty orders; she had steam up over the whole period, (Reuter's Service to the China Mail) and had her men on board This
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FIUME."
LONDON, April 25. The newspapers in London and Paris agree in regarding the final and formal withdrawal of any one Ally from the Conference as mueir able:Werefor they believe that an agreement will be reached.
work, was done under orders of the Admiralty under the terms of a time charter with them. The question was whether, under these cirerms tances, the vessel was laid up" in port. Defendants, said this did not constitute being "laid up" as this phrase dencted being totally unem ployed so far as navigation was con- cerned.
The full particulars are given in the Admiralty letter of 8th February last, which was referred to by Sir W, Watson Rutherforal in his speech, and in order to prevent further misapprehension as to the action of the Admiralty in the matter, the Secretary of the Admiralty forwards a copy of the Admiralty letter in question for publication.
Admiralty, S.W., 8th Feb., 1919, Sir-With reference to your letter of the 20th January on the subject of alien officers in British ships, and to the report that no less then 80 foreign seamen (11 of whom are of German parentage) have recently beer per mitted to sail in charge of British vessels, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of theAdmiralty to inform you that there appears to be some misapprehension of the faets.
In the early part of the war the Admiralty declined to issue 'con- fidential instructions as to routes, &c., to a British ship whose master was not British born of parents who The effect were British subjects.
of that rule was to cause many masters who were British subjects by birth or by naturalisation to lose their berths. Many of them were of excellent character and undeniable loyalty, and had already done good service in command of transports,
&c.
Mr. Justice Bray held that, apart AH insist on the necessity of maİD- taining friendship between Italy art from any costomary meaning of the Britain and France, and rely on Mr.words, he was of opinion that the
Numerous protests were received | Lloyd George and M. Clerceau to vessel was not laid up in part in such present a definite rupture between a way as to make the premiums from shipowners and others, in addi- Italy and the United States. It is returnable, as she was bunkering war- tion to which an agitation was pointed out tent the Adriatic imparships under Admiralty orders, and conducted in the press. The ques- will not necessarily prevent the signal was not unemployed, and was at her tion was also raised in the House of ture of the Peace Treaty with Ger- moorings for only part of the time. Commons, particularly in the case of many. President Wilson's action is He accordingly held that the plain- Mr. James Rieperhausen, which case tiffs claim failed, and entered was taken up strongly by Messrs. generally criticised as toctdess,
judgment for the defendants with Alfred Holt and Co., and the Imperial ROME, April 24. The Italian Press is insistent that costs. Hence, the present appeal of Merchant Service Guild. Mr. Riepen- hausen, it should be mentioned, President Wilson would have done the plaintiffs.
Mr. F. D. Mackinnon, K.Cs and though of German birth, came to better to appeal to the commons Robert Ashe (instructed by this country in 1850, and became Becse of the American nation:
Mesars. Rotterell and Roche, agents caturalised in 1877.
It unuimously approves the deer. sion of Professer Orlando to return to Italy.
There were demonstrations to-day in all the great towns in the Penia sula. The shops were shut.
for Botterell Roche and Temperley, of In view of this position an Newcastle) appeared for appellants, Admiralty Committee was appointed and Mr. R. A. Wright, K.C., and Mr.in the spring of 1917-to inquire into C. T. Le Quesne (instructed by the case of any officer of alien Messrs. Walton and Co.) for the parentage affected by the regulation respondents.
who desired reinstatement in a posi- Without calling upon counsel for tion of command in a British ship. the respondents..
Many cases were dealt with by this Lord Justice Bankes, in giving committee; who after calling for judgment, said This is an appeal evidence. as to birth, marriage, by-the plaintiffs from a judgment of nationality, service, &c., in most cases Mr. Justice Bray. The plaintiffs required the applicant to attend for [BY COURTESY "BONGKONG DAILY PRESS."iums under a clause in a policy of officers whose cases were examined claimed the return of certain prea personal interview, but of all the
FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.
STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS
IN PEKING.
CHINESE MINISTER TO JAPAN DIES FROM INJURIES RECEIVED.
PEKING, May 4. A body of students this evening attacked Tsao Ju-lin's house. They smashed the windows, wrecked the garage, and finally set fire to the house. The Folice were helpless.
insurance, which provided that there between April, 1917, and the present should be a retum for each con-time about 60 were allowed to secutive 30 days that the vessel may resume a position of command, while be "laid up" in port. Plaintiffs others were allowed to sail in some TSAO JU LIN'S HOUSE BURNT. claimed that their vessel was laid junior capacity. In a considerable up" in port during two periods of 30 number of cases, however, the days in the autumn of 1914 at Fort application was definitely refused.
It should be noted that all the land. And they sought to establish a custom which extended the words officers reinstated, though technically "Laid up" in port to the circum-of alien parentage, were British stances under which the vessel was subjects, and in several cases their at those two particular periods of 30 application was supported by the days laid up. The evidence esta Imperial Merchant Guild, the British blished, and the judge accepted the Shipmasters and Officers' Pretection operation of the words "laid up in Society, and others. port" to various operations in port In regard to the eleven officers of which might occur in the normal German parentage who it is stated course of the discharge of the vessel.have recently been permitted to sall But it was for the plaintiffs to in charge of British vessels I am to establish that the custom extended observe that there are only six cases to the particular opérations on which in which such officers have been fully this vessel was engaged, and the reinstated in the position of master. particular operations were being em. These six cases include that of Mr. played to bunker warships lying at Riepenhausen.
These officers were all British Portland. It is admitted that the custom had never been applied to subjects, and in some cases also their this particular operation before the fathers were naturalised British war, but it was said that the custom subjects.
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THE STUDENTS RESOLUTIONS.
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PEKING, May 4. A mass meeting of returned atudents this afternoon passed four resolutions.
Firstly, to telegraph to the Feace Conference pleading for justice and fair treatment to China.
had been accepted in the sense which In one of these cases where a cer- Secondly, to telegraph to the warranted the application of it to tain amount of trouble was created Chinese Delegates urging them not these particular circumstances. There by the refusal of the men to sail in to sign the Treaty if it contained was a considerable body of evidence a ship on account of the master's conditions unacceptable to China. given on the point and the judge German antecedents, Mr. Havelock Thirdly, to organise a demonstracame to the conclusion that the risk Wilson, after investigating the cir tion to visit the "Big Four" Legations which accompanied this particular cumstances, advised the Seamen's at Peking, and present a petition for occupation was a different kind of and Firemen's Union that there was transmission to Paris..
risk from that attending the opera no real ground for objection on the Fourthly, to telegraph to the tions in the normal course of dis ground of his nationality. The de Shanghal Conference arging the charge to which the custom had been tails of this matter have been thus Delegates to hasten a settlement.
applied, and he came to the conclufully mentioned with the view of A mass meeting was also held in sion that the evidence was not sufi showing that the objections now the Central Park, at which like cient to satisfy him that the custom raised to the action taken by the Ad- resolutions were carried,
ary meaning had ever covered or had miralty are based on imperfect know. been intended to cover a case like | ledge.
MORE AND CHEAPER WOOL..
The War Office (Wool Section) an nounces that on April 1 the present issue prices for wool, tops, and nois will be reduced on the average by 7 per cent., thereby assisting in the reduction of the excessiva level of prices for all wearing apparel, which-have, for a considerable period, been burden to the consumer. "
Owing to largo arrivals of wool at Liverpool, auction sales supplement ary to those held' at the Wool Ex- change, London, may be held there from time to time,
this. I entirely agree with that con TO PREVENT ALIENS ACTING clusion. The onus is on the plain.
AS MASTERS.
tiffs, and in my opinion they have
entirely failed to discharge it. The At the next meeting of the Privy appeal, therefore, fails and must be Council an order will be made under dismissed with costs.
the Defence of the Realm Act pre-
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Lords Justices Warrington and venting aliens from acting as masters Duke agreed.
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