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the "Hawaiian" Improperly failed to comply with articles 1, 2, 21, 28 and 29 of the Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea. The Crown further said that (a) a good lookout was not being kept on board the Larchgrove." (b) The "Larch- grove" Improperly failed to ex-
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hibit the regulation lights for Admiral del Buong, Commanding the steamship under way; (c) the helmNaval Department, is making arrange A petition
of the "Larchgrove was improperly menta for greeting the Japanese warships of right brought starboarded; (d) the "Larchgroves will give a reception in honour of by the OFDCTS of
Another reception steamship "Larchgrove," against appropriate signal the course she Andrea Doria, the Flagship of Admiral
the improperly failed to indicate by the admin Horiache.
be given aboard the battleshru the Crown to recover the was taking. value of the vessel, which was time to do so in duebolari Commanding the Squadron in the sunk after a collision in the Straits Improperly failed.
(c) the Larchgrove "Near East. of Gibraltar on October 27, 1918, her speed or to
slacken is expected that Admiral Horische will go to Reme to visit the King, to stop while on a voyage from Seville to reverse her engines or to do so ingirnar Nitti, the Minister of Navy.
and gether with his staff. Hs will also visit Glasgow with iron ore, and when due time: (0th Larchgrove" in- she was under Government requist properly failed to comply with tion upon a 199 charter, came articles 1, 219, 22-23, 28, and 29 before Mr. Justice Roche, sitting of the Regulations for Preventing with Elder Brethren, of Trinity Collisions at Sea.
Ros, February 6th. House BA nautical assessors, Mr. McKinnon, K.C., remarked that pilota by Lieuta. Negrini and Orisi, has 450 horse-power Caproni, biplane, in the King's Bench Division the pointraised was one that bad been departed on the Rome Tokio fight and Commercial Court. The "Earch much debated.
Whether the loss has arrived at Gioja dal Colle, which is grove
was sunk after collision was by marine or war risks, and inthe first stago. with the US ship" Hawafian" and the present case it arose in the rather several lives were lost. The question familiar form of the loss of a steamer raised was whether the loss was by while in the service of the Crown : a sea and marine or war risk.
under the provisions of the T 99 charter party. This charter provided, The Zwolfabrblatt learns that Japan that the Admiralty should not be bae intimated that the ax Colonial Secre liable if the steamer should be lost the Germans representative in Tokio.
tary Dr. Solt is not a persona prata as damaged, ac, in consequence of ordinary sea risks, but war risks were taken by the Admiralty and the risks excluded by the ordinary · · English policy of marine Insurance.
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WOLFRAM IN SOUTH CHINA.
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JAPAN'S AIM IN SIBERIA.
LONDON, February 8th.
For the suppliant ownera Mr. F. D. Mackinnon. K. and Mr. Lewis Noad appeared (instructed by Messrs. A. Crump and Sons), and the Crown were represented by the Attomey General Sir Gordon Hewart, K.C., M.P.), Mr. W. Norman Reaburn, K.G., Mr. R. H. Balloch, and Mr. Alfred
LONDON, February 9th. Bucknil! (instructed by the Treasury He quite accepted the position that The Engineering Correspondent of the solicitor).
Financier
that the If the owners were suing marine paper The owners said that the "Larch- underwriters for the less of the shiptently very extensive and productive. It wolfram fields in South China are evi- Frove" was a steel screw steamship of the onus would be on them to showwould appear that South China with her. register, 295ft, in length, 41ft. beam, case within the clause "warrantedly hold the key of the wolfram position. 2,430 tons gross and 1,553 tona net that they were not liable because the huge resources of cheap labour will short- having engines of 246 hp.n., and free of capturs, ac" So carrying a crew of 33 hands all here where the Owners. were told. On er about February 19, claiming against the Admiralty 1915, she was requisitioned by the onus was on the owners to show the Lords Commissioners of the that marine underwriters would not The Times' Tokio correspondent, in an Admiralty upon the conditions set succeed in that defence. The ownersinterview with the Minister of War, out in the charter-party T.99, dated here had to show that the loss of the learned that Japan's aim in Siberia was Admiralty, February 19, 1915, By "Larchgrove" was caused by a con-to evacuate the Czechs. Japan's whole the terms of this charter party (chart. sequence of hostilities or warlikesttection was devoted to the problem of 19) the Lords of the Admiralty took operations. The facts strongly retransporting Czechs to the East, and in upon themselves those risks excluded sembled some of the other cases that tolerate opposition from any source what- the work of transport Japan would not from an ordinary English policy of had been before the courts. Thever. The Minister declared it was un- marine insurance by the clause "Larchgrove" was laden with iron ore, thinkable for the Japanese to withdraw" "warranted free of capture, seizure, voyaging from Seville to the United from Siberih until the Czechs bad eva- and detention, and the consequences Kingdom. She-fires went to Gibral-cuated. thereof or any attempt thereat, piracy tar, and ther sailed in a convoy. excepted, and also from all coase composed of 27 to 30 vessels. The quences of hostilities or warlike collision took place at 8.10 p.m. on a operations, whether before or after dark night, the "Larchgrove being
TAIS February 9th. declaration of war At about 8.10 struck by the Hawaiian which was The Lloyd steamer Nippen has arrived p.m. on October 27, 1918, the "Larchand in the convoy, and who was filant from provinces formerly belong from the Fat Emt having aboarẻ 420 grova" was in the Straits of Gibraltar United States ship proceeding easting to Austria who were prisoners in on a voyage from Seville to Glasgow wards, while the convoy was goingSiberia. Among them there are 8 lunatica, in a convoy consisting of a large westwards without lighi Theas mauraptive patients, 81 have not yet number of vessals arranged in "Hawanan" was owned in the United recovered from their wounds, and 14 are eight columns, of which the States and manned by a United States. Most of the remaindar are asscted
Larchgrove" was the leading naval crew, and commanded byby
rheumatism. vessel of the second column from United States naval officers, and she' the port band. The "Larchgrove" was transporting munitions of war, was on a course of S 69 W., pro-aeroplanes, guns, motor lorries, &c to proceeding at a speed of about seven Marseilles. She was going eastwards knots, and by order of the Admiralty to the Straits of Gibraltar when she
LONDON, February ath. neither she or any of the other collided with the "Larchgrove," the Colonel F. T. Hals, D.8.0.. who has vessals in the convoy carried any latter coming from Gibraltar Pothe Chinese Government, departe shortly. been appointed Aeronautical Adviser to lights, notwithstanding that the going westwards. The convoy was weather was very dark and hazy. In preceeding without lights and was these circumstances shortly after the arranged in eight columns, and the "Larchgrove" had starboarded a little "Larchgrove" was the leading vessel to keep her position in the convoy of the second column on the port side
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the loom of a vessel showing no of the convoy. The next chip on the pany have been relaying the lines lights was suddenly made out close starboard side was the "Tresillian," over the whole of the system. The to a little on the starboard bow. The which was the first ship of the third work is expected to be completed helm of the "Larchgrové" was instant column. Some little time before the shortly. ly put hard-a-starboard, two short trouble arose the "Tresillian" was blaata sounded, and her green light ex forced aver a little bit towards part hibited, but almost immediately after because another vessel was pressing wards the "Hawaiian," a large steams ship proceeding at high speed, with
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in on her, and those on the "Larch disease was one case of plague, one grove" starboarded the helm a little. of enteric, and three of cerebro-spinal
her fore part struck the starboard A Hittle after the "Hawallan" fever. Since then there has been side of the "Larchgrove," doing so saw the Tresillian had ported one case of CS fever. To-day's
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The owners' case was that the loss of the vessel was a consequence of bostilities or warlike operations with in the meaning of the warranty in the charter-party, and they claimed to receive the value of the vessel according to the laws of the charter party.
The speech by Sir Auckland Geddes, printed yesterday under the heading "Great Auk's Great Idea," was delivered at Andover, not at Dover. We thank Reuter for this correction; but it doesn't matter so very much where à man talks con.
laden with a full cargo of iron ore, the "Tresillian" by a comparatively sank immediately in about latitude short distance they were so near 29 35 deg, 54min. N. and longitude 5 to be able to hail one another. The deg. 35 min. W. 17 of her crew, is "Tresillian" bailed the "Hawaiian" and cluding ber master, who was in said she was running into a convey, charge being drowned.
The "Hawaiian had then come dan gerously near to the "Larchgrove and the "Larchgrove" aaw her because of the wave at her bow as much as be cause of any loom of her bull. The sense.
Larchgrove" blew two blasts and starboarded her helm, the "Hawaiian" Our old-timer friend Sergt. being seen by her on her starboard "Tom" Pitt is going Home on nine bow: The Hawalian," which was months leave, going overland from The answer of the Crown was that under port hela possibly from the Marseilles. Some of the Craigeng. the collision and loss of the "Larch manoeuvre she had taken to avoid gwer members are subscribing for a grove was caused by the negl the Tresillian, went to port, and to draft for him, in case he spends all" gentarigalios of the "Larchgrove" porting she struck the "Larchgrove his wealth on the trip home. His and of the Hawalian," or alter nearly smidship on the starboard services to that popular club have nately by the negligent navigation side. Unhappily the collision had been much appreciated
of one of those vessels. The very serious, consequences. The owners. said that the loss "Larchgrove" was laden with froń--
of the **Larchgrove was ore and she went down almost
was caused by danger of the sea instantaneously, In less than a minute, negligence it was not a war risk-at and colision and, causes arising as and 17 of her crew were drowned, any rate he had a notion that that: a dea risk of by some one of such | including the captain and the officers might be held so. "Supposing, there...::: mafters in respect of which it was ex- of the deck and engine room, except- was not negligence, he seemed to re-7 pressly provided by clause 18 of the the chief officer (Mr. Davies), who member that the Court of Appeal charter party that the Admiralty was the only witness that the sup had said in one case as to two mem....... ahould not be liable. In the parti pliants had been able to get. The bers of the court that it was a war culars the Crown said that (a) a good chief officer had just left the bridge, risk, quite independently of the parti- lookout was not being kept on board and had gone down to the chart-room. Cular, circumstances of its being to the. "Hawaian," (b) the "Hawalian" when he heard the captain order the do with the Dardanelles expedition... impropertly failed to exhibit theaterboarding of the helm. He ran He believed Mr. Justice Ballbache, in regulation lights for a steamship up on to the bridge and the collision a case that was before him where under way or any of them in due occurred; almost immediately. The there was a convoy, had held that it... time, (c) the helm of the "Hawa collision took place on the 27th of was a war risk and the occurrence fian” was improperly ported and kept October, and on the 30th of October was a war risken kau to post, (d) the "Hawaiian" improperly there was an inquiry, at Gibralter on The hearing was adjourned.. falled to indicate by the appropriate | bozed the steamer" “ Hawaian, at signal the course she was taking or which evidence was given that would to do so in due time, (c) the Hawa be placed before the court Han" improperly failed to slacken her Mr. Justice Rocher said he had a speed or to stop and revere ̈ber nollan that the authorities had laid l'engines or, to do so in due time, (f)] It dawn broadly that if, there was
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