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LOCKED GRILLES.
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The Pilot's Evidence.
THE CHINA MAIL.
per course.
and hardly accounts for the "Leung pears, largely on account of certain Kwong" being so far out of her pro- opposition to such grilles. Every ship Inspected by her anti-piracy It is for you, Gentlemen of the committeo and provided with a de- Jury, again to say whether you be fence scheme was apparently allow. slight corroboration it gets from the desired for convenience in handling love the pilot's story with the cd to maintain such grilles if 80 evidence of Captain Wilson and the passengers, but was warned that no "Leung Kwong" guarde, If you such grille must be locked and that "Moonshine" was to blame for the the cargo ports were open. do, then clearly the coxswain of the it could only be closed if and when collision, and If you find that he acted in such gross defiance of all the rules of navigation as is alleged, you will be justified In recording a verdiot of manslaughter against him,
to
if the
owners
Now Captain Wilson has deposed that when the "Leung Kwong" left the harbour fairway, he handed over to his Chief Officer Mr. Martin, who unfortunately was one of the victims of the disaster, and that when he, the Captain, came out of
including the "Leung Kwong" were It is admitted that many vessels his cabin just before the collision
never inspected by committees or Mr. Martin was on the bridge. The
provided with defence schemea or pilot has further doposed that Mr.
Harbour, Master has told you, to his Martin was navigating the ship
warned an above, owing, as the right up to the moment of the col- lision and that everything he did "Moonshine's" story and find that River Traffic between June 1925 To sum up, if you believe the the boycolt which put a stop to lack of staff and also no doubt to was done on the Chief Oficer's It leads you to the conclusion that and September 1926. orders, and although this excuse the "Leung Kwong" was navigated might not legally absolve him from with gross negligence (whether in responsibility for navigating the act or omiasion) of which no or
Surveyor Passed Ship. The Government Marine Surveyor ship in a way he knew to be wrong dinarily prudent navigator would responsible appears to have passed and dangerous, no jury would be be guilty, you can bring in a ver- the "Leung Kwong" maanwhile us
kely to convict him if they were satisfied he was acting under the the Chief Officer or pilot of that provided that he found the Bridge dict of manslaughter against elther complying with the new regulations arders of a suporter and white off ship whichever of them you find to properly protected and the old anti- cer. Against this there is the un- have in charge of the navigation at piracy devices maintained. Another supported evidence of the Head the material time.. Guard, a witness whose demeanour
Government Marine Surveyor ap- was not impressive and who repeut- "Leung Kwong" witnesses, and find be licensed to carry passengers If, however, you believe the pears to have passed her as fit to edly contradicted himself,
who criminal negligence proyed against the continued lacking of the lower atated that the Chief Officer was in the "Moonshine" coxswain, with no deck grillea and cargo parts. Whe without concerning himself about his cabin at the material time. If gross contributory negligence in the ther the owners and/or officers of you believe the evidence of the Cap: navigation of the "Leung Kwong", ships which had not yet been in- tain and pilot, then you should your verdict will be one of man- spected by Committees should have hold only the deceased Chief Officer slaughter against the coxswain been warned in the same terms as culpable. If you believe the Head only. Guard, then the pilot alone was to
those of the ships which had been blame.
"Misadventure."
so inspected is a question on which Failing such a degree of you may desire to comment, but it negligence on either side as I have that the old regulations had been indicated your verdict will be superseded and
had certainly been published abroad "death by misadventure," but that verdict you may see fit to add Kwong" and other vessels
and/or officers of the "Leung certain riders by way of censure or like these locked grilles and cargo: didn't recommendation.
You will perhaps have something them locked.
ports, why did they go on keeping to say about the fact of an
The guards can ap-hardly be blamed on this point. being in command of a vessel with For the exact nature of their duties parently decrepit old man of 78 Their formal instructions from the accommodation on board for over
C.S.P. mainly concern discipline. 600 souls, & Captain who was not on board the Master of the ship is on the Bridge when his ship enter responsible, ed the dangerous waters of Capsui-Leung Kwong" seems to have as- Captain Wilson or perhaps the compradore of thet sumed that the old regulations still You will no doubt have some-held good and to have given in- thing more to say about the grille structions accordingly. The force since there can be no doubt that of "olo custom" as usual prevailed. ladder grille on the "Leung Kwong" ment and make recommendations but for the locking of the steerage
Finally, you may desire to com- the loss of life would not have been concerning the system under which so great.
it is possible and lawful for ships No criminal blame can possibly like the "Leung Kwong" to sail attach to the person or responsible for keeping that grille saving appliances for only about peraons from Hong Kong with sufficient life locked inasmuch as his or their 18% of the persons who may be on action was not the proximate or board if a full complement of pas- efficient cause of the deaths in this sengers is carried. case. It is clear. that prior to the It is obvious that the conditions original anti-piracy Reguintions of of the passenger traffic between 1914 these lower deck grilles were Hong Kong and the Canton Delta fitted in ships of this type (and are peculiar and that in most cases that the 1914 Regulations were read of collision a ship badly holed to mean that they should be kept but the Board of Trade regulations could be beached before she sank, locked as sea). The 1924 Regula- tions no longer required lower deck for vessels plying in smoother grilles to be maintained for piracy for a minimum of 25%, which is prevention, and were passed, it ap-surely not too little for ships that waters than ours require boats etc.,
carry the countless streams of passengers in and out of Hong Kony.
The other side of the picture is the "Leung Kwong" pilot's version, which I must remind you was never tested by cross-examination. Put very shortly his story amounts to this. The "Leung Kwong" entered the Pass about the centre of the Channel; the "Moonshine" observed coming down hugging her was wrong side, the Ma Wan side, of the Channel; the "Leung Kwong" turned to port to avoid her and headed almost straight across the Pass, and that the "Moonshine" then turned to starboard despite recelv- ing and answering the "Leung Kong's" signal indicating that the two ships should pass starboard, to starboard, and as a result rammed the "Leung Kwong" almost head on near the Lantao shore.
This version, as the Harbour Master has demonstrated to you, is difficult to understand because the "Leung Kwong" pilot stated that only immediately before the colli sion did he see the "Moonshine's" port light on his starboard bow whereas if the two vessels were both turning towards Lantao for an appreciable time before the collision the. "Moonshine's" port light must have shown up as soon as she start ed to turn. This statement by the pilot I might here remind you goes some way towards corroborating the "Moonshine" coxswain's story,
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PASSENGER LIST.
DEPARTURE.
Passengers departed from Hong Kong by the A.M.L. liner "President Grant" for Manila on July 5, were: Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Allison, Capt. G. Alona, Mrs. Wm. A. and Miss F. Bade, Senator H. Bingham, Mr. W. Bingham, Mr. E. C. Bogle, Sister Gertrude Bray, Mr. Geo, F Busse, Mias J. Corbaz, Mr. H. Ericson, Dr. Felina C. Fernando, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Forbes,
Miss Eliz A. Freel, Miss Alice L. Furtney, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Green- field, Misses R. M., F. E. and M. Greenfield, Col. and Mrs. Chas. D. Herrson, Matr. Wm. Herrson, Miss Louisa .Herrson, Misses K. and D. Holmes, Mrs. Tee Kun, Miss Slu Lien, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Magnus- sen, Sister M. F. Matucha, Mrs. Hez McClellan, Mr. Geo. B. Mcphee, Miss Reba Owen, Miss Clara Pala- fox, Mrs. F. J. Patrick, Mr. F. G. A. Z. Sycip, Mr. Van Brunt H.B., Roth, Miss Louise Standifer,. Mr. Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Vickery, Dr. H. M. Whitford, Mr. Dao Ling Wu, Mr. A. S. Garcia, Miss Samaran, Miss Samnjang, Miss Tawan Bunnak, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bousseau, Mr. E., F. Boyes, Mr. At Alindogan, Mr. J. M. Lezama, Jr., Mr. Cesar Barrios, Jr., Mr. Jose Santiago, Mr. C. T. Fowie, Miss P. D. Williams, Mr. G. A. Aben- danom, Mr. H. Tulsidas, Dr. M. V. Arguellee, Mr. Cheng Chung-hua, Mr. Lamberto Baatleta, Miss V. Brown, Mrs. Estillia Mouillas, Mr. and Mrs. S. Dasmarimas, Mr. G. M. Stewart, Mrs. Mitchell Hall, Miss T. Queenan, Miss B. Hall, Mr. C. E. Mayer, Mr. and Mrs. H. Wal- ford, Mstr. Walford, Miss E. V. Anderson, Mr. Rene Chardon, Miss J. C. Blelenberg, Mias Teng King, Miss Tan Slu-hue, Rey, M. J. Moran, Mr. Armandaziz.
80-YEARS-OLD MOTORIST.
After being fined £2 for negli- gence in driving a motor-car, Frederick Watkin, aged 80, a retired timber merchant, of Old Rectory, Faxton, was asked at: Northampton if he intended to keep on driving,
Watkin replied: Hope so. Why
not?
The case was a sequel to a colli sion between Watkin's motor-car and a tramway car and another motor-car," in which Watkin's wrist was fractured."
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