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(Continued from Pago 4) the last. Now, I do not think that that can be accurate. He does not say anywhere what sort of speed he was getting out of the ship, though there was a passage some where in his evidence which spoke about five knots. The conclusion I come to is that there was no full speed at all ordered, or if ordered certainly not carried out
Mr. Dunlop. It is at page 118: "Judging her. at five knots, she would make about three." That is where he mentioned five knots.
period only), and still at the end of that half-hour the vessel was standing up to it with no increase in the water, still greater confid- ence would be induced in the mas tar's mind. If that is the fact, one Ancannot suppose, when they were making for port as quickly as they could; that any reduction of speed should take place later. That is one of the reasons why I think the pilot is all wrong when he talks about going full speed.
Time of Sinking.
What they did was, having had a look at the hole and made an examination forward, to take soundings of their bilges, both in No. 1 and No. 2 holds, they took the very best précautions with regard to those two holda, officer was stationed at each to take soundings frequently, the first off cer at No. 1 and the second officer at No. 2 They sounded both the holds and the tanks, because she was a double-bottomed ship. The chief officer who was sounding at No. 1, tock' his soundings, as he
Now with the pumps keeping the says, about every 10 minutes. Whe ther it was precisely 10 minutes or water down at this figure, and with Crew Preferred to Pilot. not is not by any means certain; the ship travelling at slow speed, The Judge. That Is the passage. But what he means to tonvey, and there came a time. when suddenly It is on page 118 that he speaks of what I think was happening was, there was obviously an inrush of somi ave knots. So much for the that he was taking them at fre- water coming up the sounding two sets of witnesses, if one may quent, intervals to see whether pipes, both of the bilges and the so call it the pilot as against the there was any rise of water. At tank, and the ship dropped her crew-I accept the crew. After the first sounding they found the head to a very considerable extent, the accident, the master, the mate, water was 2ft. 6in. bilga on the so much so that the water came on and the engineer all went forward starbaard side of No. 1 hold. The to the well deck. The people who tank was dry; and no other water were standing by the sounding to see what the damage was. was very serious. A picture of was found in the ship at all. Now pipes found that they could not the blow was sketched by the mias-2ft. ein. In these bilges is not a sound any more, and they had to The bilges are abandon the ship, which they did ter and put fu; it cuts practically great matter. to the 'midships line at the fore about 8 feet deep. I am satisfied at about 3 o'clock. She went down castle. It apparently gets close to that Mr. Camps' evidence about at ten minutes past three. The the windlass, and all the plates the bilges is likely to be more cor-pilot's times with regard to his would no doubt be torn and very rect than anybody else's. I am led boarding her and the sinking are Putting it quite to that conclusion by the fact that about half-an-hour different. After badly twisted. shortly, the end of the ship forward the ship never took any list, Hay-the vessel was left (they left in of the collision bulkhead would be ing found 2ft. Cin. to start with, boats; there were 20 odd people in in a terrible mess.
they then put on the pumps, and each of the two boats) they had to. the engineer used all his available row ashore, pumping power on this No. 1 hold and reduced the water to 2 feet. From that time onwards the water kept at a constant level of 2 feet and did not increase,
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They went forward to examine the damage, and they examined it as beat they could. I am satisfied that the examination that was made was as good an axamination as could be made in the circum- stances.
It has been suggested that they ought to have gone down a ladder of some kind into the space where all this torn and dis- turbed steelwork was, in order to examine microscopically the rivets and the state of the bulkhead. With a great hole such as was made of some 12 feet by eight or nine more feet, in the bows, in daylight, a very good indication of the state of the bulkhead, generally speaking, could be seen from the deck; and It could also be seen whether it was feasible to get down or not. accept the evidence of the engineer when he says that it was not safe to try, and he could not get down to make any more detailed examin- ation. Moreover, I do not think it would have conveyed any more to anyone than was to be learned from the soundings, if properly taken, of the bilges.
It lo the fact that, having examined as far as they could the damage from the forward side, they did not go down into No. 1 hold to see what was visible in there. The No. 1 bold was not quite full of cargo, but more than half of the space in the No. 1 hold was full of bulk meat, on top of which were layers of bags, some three or four tiere, lald fore and aft. These would form a most excellent sup- port for a bulkhead which had been injured in a collision. I think, and am advised, that it was the best possible kind of shore you could have to a bulkhead which was weakened; and that any attempt to take away from that shore would have been most unwise.
and they made Rimouski Wharf in about four hours, I think. I am not sure whe- ther this has been proved, or whe ther it only appears in the evid- ence given at Montreal, but I think The ship having had a severe ac- it was in about four hours. Row- cident, being furnished with a col-ing big, heavy boats like these, lision bulkhead, and the soundings after an accident like this, waiting showing that the pumps were able to see the ship sink, and so on, they to cope with any water that came had to row with a wind on the beam in and keep it at a constant level, and with the tide on the beard of I think the master was fully justi- the small boats, and they had to fled in trying to make port with hold her up to make Father Point, his ship. There was no reason to because Father Point signal was be alarmed. Of course vessels do the only thing they had to guide sometimes
go to
They were holding her up the bottom them. some hours after they have against the wind and tide so as to Bome-make Rimouski, so that they had a had a collision, because
long good deal to contend with; and I thing gives, way; but so As your soundings are constant, think the time which they took and the ship is travelling without would about agree with the place any increase of water, it seems to where the master says he thinks me that a reasonable man may na- the ship aank, turally conclude that he can safely
on.
The place of collision I have al- ready found to be some two miles. of Buoy 26. I think the If it be the fact that the pilot N.W. put her on full speed when he first master's view as to the spot where was a very the vessel went down, which fa came on board, that good test, and it would naturally four miles N.N.W. of Father Point, add to the confidence in their bulk- is probably very near the right seems to mie to accord head which the master already pos- spot. It sessed. If again at a later period with the getting into port after- he travelled full speed for half-an-wards, and with the other mat- hour (the first full speed being sup- ters to which I have already posed to be for a somewhat short alluded. I think if the ship had
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gone full speed for anything like half-an-hour, it is rather less consistent with their getting into Rimouski in the way they did than with going at slow, though thero' is not a great deal in it. In my view tlie distance is only short, and would easily be accounted for by Those slow speed all the time. are, I think, the main facts. In the case. I cannot believe that they would go more than slow. They had been caught out in a fog going too fast, and probably they would not be so eager to go fast in a fog afterwards; still less would they be eager to go too fast in a fog with a gash in her bows such as she had received.
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AND THE BABY: The hot months of the year are the most dangerous to infants and little children. Cholera Infantum, diarrhoea, dysentery, and attacks I cannot believe that this Italian of fever come on so quickly that crew would have stayed on board a the little one may be beyond aid "gradually ainking" ship, getting almost before the parents realise-worse and worse every moment, up to such a late period as in fact they
Hold Examination of No Value.
The master of a ship, knowing that his bulkhead was a8 well shored as that, would not natural- ly suspect that he could do any good by going down Into the hold, to see what could be seen above the baga, because the bags were on top of the bulk cargo. It may very well be that some people would go down into the hold to satisfy themaid to mothers during the hot selves as to what the conditions on as Baby's Own Tablets, for were; but Inasmuch as the sound- they quickly reduce fever, ings of the hold were the things that really mattered, and it would. have been most unwise to disturb
he is ill.
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did. I cannot believe that the crew.
would not be looking with the
greatest interest to see whether
their ship was keeping all right or
not. Nor do I think that the pilot, who is a total stranger to the ship.
any cargo that was there, it is high-correct constipation, gently cleanse would risk his life he talks about ly improbable that any good re- the stomach and intestines, stop his livelihood, still less his life- sults would have been attained by colic and vomiting, check diarrhoea, if the ship was gradually, going Printers.
opening the hatches and going assist teething, ease croup and down; but he would look out to see whether there was any truth THE CHINA MAIL," General down merely to look, because the colds,
Parents can administer Baby's, in the suggestion that Mr. Langton Printers.
Injury to this bulkhead seems 'real- Publishers and Bookbinders. ly to have been low down, and be-Own Tablets to their little ones makes, that she was gradually go- with perfect confidence, for they ing down. Nor do I believe that low the height to which the cargo are guaranteed free from narcotics this crew, if there was any such extended. As the water which or other injurious drugs, and ab- danger, would not have packed eventually got into the ship came in solutely safe even for the young their belongings and had from below, no examination Iriside eat or most delicate infant in arms ready to transfer to the lifeboats, would really have been of any Chemists everywhere sell them, or because they have not a great deal value. Thuy did not go down to post free, 60 cents the vial, from of property, and what they have is look, and I certainly think that the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., generally with them on board their that was not by any means an im Kiangse Road, Shanghai, prudent thing to omit
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44-A color
45-Dubious
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Arabia
11-A capa on the
Marrachuratta
coast
19-Negativa
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calted?
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29-Of the height of
fashion
30-Woo (Spot)
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team (Alaska)
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with
purple
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monetary unit of Canada?
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Austra-Hungary
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post was U, Q. minister to Spain and to Englandt
Inflammation
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20-An American pret 23-Prefix Before 26-Majestic and
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familiar
combination of hydrogen and oxygen?
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anything, le cast or shaped
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38-To discover |39–Having nodea 40-What English
general, governor of the Sudan, was killed at Khartum? 42-Steep.
43-Excess arising from
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49-Ta trouble
60-Forth from
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