TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1928.
For your floor-furniture-and every-domestic-article-requiring- a stained, and varnished finish
"Wilheycla
Oil Varnish Stains
IN
Oaks Walnut Mahogany-Satinwood Rosewood-Ebony Black Can be applied by anyone. Always reliable, never sticky. Non-poisonona and Durable.
AGENTS
S. C. LAY & CO.
Telephone Contral 768.
Alexandra Building.
Wilkinson, Heywood & Clark
SHANGHAI.
SALE
HONG KONG.
OF
Jewellery, Watches, Fancy Goods, etc.
at a
SACRIFICE
We are removing from our present premises (opposite main entrance of the Hong Kong Hotel) to the new address at present occupied by "At The Sign of the Lantern," in the ground floor of York Building, and have to sell the entire stock.
No reasonable offer refused.
Sale commenced on 1st. June, 1928.
SENNET FRERES,
China Building,
Pedder Street.
IMPORTANT to MEN
Send Your Felt Hats to Experts for Renovation. Yea We clean Ladies' Hats as well. Also Dresses and every kind of Fabric.
THE INTERNATIONAL DRY CLEANING & DYEING CO.
19, Wyndham Street, 143, Wong Nel Cheong Road, 36, Nathan Road,
Hoag Kong.
Happy Valley.
Kowloon.
SPECIAL SUMMER NUMBER
OF THE
CHINA JOURNAL
COLOURED PLATES,
SPLENDID ARTICLES,
DOG SHOW AND GREYHOUND RACING
PICTURES.
$2.00
Annual Subscription: $11.00 (Shanghai Currency}
From your Bookseller or direct from the office of
THE CHINA JOURNAL
8, Museum Road, Shanghai.
CHI WAH.
TAILORING
Once known as Chison. Ferfect at guaranteed.
Wyndham Street..
TANG YUK DENTIST
Successor to 1900
the Inte SIENATING, 14, D'Aguilar Street,
TERMS VERY MODERATE
Consultation Fros.
THE CHINA MAIL
(Continued from Page 10.) ship, and they do not want to lose all they have if there is any remote chance of auch loss taking place."
LIABILITY FOR LOSS, examination at all, and they took or a rapid sinking. The vessel's no, precautions such as anchoring head went down before she got the or beaching the ship, or waiting water, on hor fore-deck something until they could get assistance to hatween 10 feet and 20-feet-I patch their vessel. If the master, think Mr. Camps puts it 24 to 86 having got his ship perfectly sound fact-12 feet. I said 10 to 20 fost; In the sense that he could keep the that is a wide margin. Mr. Campa water under, had chosen to anchor puts it at 12 Test. Mr. Bufls puts No Object in Losing Ship. where he was, which is one sugges-it at about nine feet, in order to Again, the master and the other tion, non constat.that the bulkhead get the water on to the fore-deck. people on the ship had no object would not have given way in three But, at any rate, it is a very big In losing the ship. They had hours time, just as it did. If he drop. The pilot never noticed any every reason to keep her afloat and had not anchored, but waited about part of that until the water was on keep their job. Again, If there the course the tide and wind bave the deck. The crew say that it all was any sort of danger in their blown him somewhere. He was happened very auddenly. That minde or apparent, there was no eteaming as it was, but, if he had evidence seems to me to amount to difficulty in taking the ship clase waited about, again on, constat much the same thing. The pilot in shore and coasting up to Quebec that the bulkhead would not have did not see it till the water was on That was not attempted. Nor, In-given way. If he had beached the deck. They did not see it till deed, would there. have been any her, it would have been a case the water was coming up through difficulty in beaching the ship, be-of beaching A ship which the pipes. But a drop of the head cause there were plenty of places apparently there WEB no of some 9ft to 12 ft. gradually where she could have been beach- necessity to beach, and it would would tip the ship very sensibly. ed. But none of these attempts have been very hard for him to It is almost impossible to believe was made for the safeguarding of justify the benching of a vessel, that nobody would notice that the their lives and property on the the water. in which was perfectly ship was tiited forward to that ex- part of the people who were man- under control, in view of the ener-tout, her atern, going up in the aging this ship.. My view is, that mous cost that might be involved air, and her propeller not making If there really had been any sign in such a proceeding.
anything like the proper effect on such as has been suggested must
To find a place where he could the ship it would be going very have been visible, of the Vessel going down gradually before she which would not invpive a greater is impossible to believe that that beach with some degree of safety, much faster, one would think. It actually collapsed and went down injury to the ship, might be ex-would not have been noticed if it in a very short period, some of
ceedingly difficult, especially in a had been going on gradually. The these steps would have been taken.
This all points, to my mind, to its fog. It would involve steaming in first foot or two, perhaps, would to the shore; and if he had gone not be noticed, but as soon as it being a true case which the master at full speed and the bulkhead had got to a serious amount it seems to is making with regard to this given way, he would have been me it must have been noticed. The matter. Further, the engineer, blamed, no doubt. If the cost of master atoms, to have taken into who la in the worst position of benching had been very large, the consideration the condition of his anybody on a ship that is likely
case would have been a different ship with sense. He knew that he to go to the bottom, has his gauge glasses down below to guide him one, and he would have been told had to go up the Narrows higher he ought never to have done such up, and he had taken the precau- as to whether she is going by the
a thing, when he was not making tion of ordering tugs to meet him head rapidly or gradually.. He, with the other people in the engine-with-the: argument would
more water than he could cope when he got to that part of the have river where he might have difficulty been slightly different than now. in steering. So that he does not danger of losing their lives in the If he had been faced with those seem to have been a person neglect. caso of a sudden emergency, has
alternatives, a case might very ful of ordinary precautions. For put on all his pumping power, and well have been made that in choos- these reasons, I think, the plaintiffs must naturally be vary anxious to know whether his pumps are doinging to go on rather than take any-are entitled to recover, as part of their work. I believe he did keep one of them, he could not be said their damages for the collision, the in close touch with the deck, too be negligent for having done so. loss of the vessel." know what was going on, and satis succeeded on that case. But that I think vary likely he might have fied himself that his pumps were keeping the water down to the level is not the case he makes, because mind by the best precautions he he was no convinced in his own
soundings, that it was perfectly could take, namely of taking
safe to go on.
room who are most exposed to the
at which it was kept. Those are some of the reasons which lead me to the conclusion that I have come Master's Reasonable Precautions.
to.
OLD WEEK-ENDS.
DAYS WHEN FOLKS WENT TO CHURCH.
THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL PEAK HOTEL
11
Telegraphic Address: KREMLIN, HONGKONG.” AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL,
Telegraphic Address: CENTRAL, SHANGHAL.”
HOTELS,
LIMITED,
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms, newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone. Hotel Launch meets all stearners.
TEA DANCES: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, From 5 to 7° p.m.
Tel. Add: "Victoria.” Telephone No. C. 373.
J. H. WITCHELL,
Manager.
Courtesy, Comfort, Service and Luxuries of Modern Hotel Construction
THE HOTEL RIVIERA
MACAU.
Cable Address :" RIVIERA, MACAU.”.
THE NEW
Mr. C. R. Byrom, chief general SAILORS' AND SOLDIERS' HOME
superintendent of the 'London, Midland and Scottish Railway, con- tinued his evidence before the Joint! Select Parliamentary Committee considering the railway companies" Billa seeking powers to operate road transport services.
I have taken the precaution of As to her speed, Mr. Langton asking the Elder Brethren what asked me not to believe the ship's they think about this, because it story about going only slow, be seems to me it is very much more a cause there, was this discrepancy matter for them than it is for me, between the ship's witnesses and as to the conduct of a ship's master the pilot. I have already dealt to after an accident of this kind. I a large extent with that point. Mr. The loss of passenger traffic due have asked them the question Buckmill had pointed out that the to road competition, he said, was which Mr. Langton agreed should master was recalled at Montreal, very pronounced on distances up to. be asked; and I have also added to after the pilot had given his evid-50 miles.
Sir William Edge, M.P. for that question. the suggestion which he made, to make the matter even a single-question about it. He Bosworth, a member of the com some of the clearer. I have asked them the aleo points out with regard to the mittee, sald that on
roads in the north of England the question. Did the master take pro- master, who gave the answer which traffic had already reached satura-
Mr. Langton rather liked to rely tion point. on, "In my condition I certainly
ence about this, and was not asked
·
It was
per, reasonable and seamanlike pre- cautions after the collision to save
Mr. Byrom said there was я his ship? Their answer is, Yes. would have contributed to her loss, virtual monopoly of motor-omnibus Did he omit to take any such pre- should have been negligent If I services growing up which was cautions? Their answer is, No. had put the engines full speed controlled by two
groups in work- They say that in similar circum- ahead," that was by no means a ing association-the London Gen stances they think they would have crafty answer-it struck me, too-eral Omnibus Co. and the British done the same as he did, being na- or the answer of a man who was Electric Traction Co. turally anxious to get into port as not trying to tell the truth, be tantamount to a fifth railway soon as possible; probably, they cause it would be the last admis group, never contemplated under add, they would have gone down sion he would make If it were the the Act of 1921. They con- into the forehold to see if anything fact that he knew in his own mind trolled more than 60 per cent. of was visible, though they would not that he had gone full speed ahead, the organised transport Industry expect to find anything, inasmuch because he did not know that all in England and Wales, and they as it took her three hours to sink the evidence at Montreal would not employed more than 10,000 ́ömnl-
that is what they know now be before me. He did not know but buses. and in view of the soundings. They that it would come out that his en certainly would not disturb the gines had been full speed ahead. cargo against the bulkhead.
I think it goes to show that he was It is said that even if any pre-150 convinced in his own mind that caution is omitted, it would still his story was true that he was go leave me to say whether I thinking slow, that he had no hesitation that the man was negligent or not. in making that admission.
Earl Russell suggested that in an effort to establish road services the railways might have to enter upon intensive competition with the road undertakings, and that might not be in the public interest.
Mr. Byrom said that the railway
I have put to myself the question As to the time the ship took to companies wanted to share in the whether the sinking was due to sink, the point was made by Mr. revenue which was to be derived the act or neglect of the plaintiffs, Langton that this vessel suddenly from the development of road ser- and I cannot think it was. I can- went down "in five minutes." Mrvices. The loss attributable to the WRB relatively not see that the master was guilty Camps' said it might have been five private motor-car
unimportant. of any neglect or act which brought minutes. Five minutes, la not about the loss of his vessel. I very long time, but whether a ship county councils): But surely in the Mr. Carteris, K.C. (appearing for think the loss was clearly the goes to the bottom when her bulk-old days people used to go away direct result of the collision. That head scam or her side plating gives by rail for week-ends as they now is the test, I think, put by Lord way from the stringer, all depende do by private car? Justice Bankes and Lord Justice on how much the seam goes, or Lord Darling: In the old days Atkin in the "Paludina," fol- how much of the plating comes people used to go to ehurch. lowing Mr. Justice Hill in from the stringer." I am not sure (Laughter.)
tho
the
"Waalstroom," which is whether I have used there the word The committee adjourned. teat which ought to "stringer" ÍK the right way-I
be applied to these cases. Of think probably It ought to be HONG KONG HOTEL VISITORS. course, the plaintiff has to prove "angle-iron." Mr. Burls seems to
his case; and I am satisfied in this think that it might take an hour.
June 26, 1928.
Cese that he has done so. The loss Mr. Trimming gave us some figures Mesars. A. M. Birchall,
A. S.
Mr. and Mrs. Cowlishaw, Ming Cowlishaw. Miss Collas, Miss A. Clinton, Mr. E. J. Carmichael.
was not caused by any failure to which would correspond more or Brown, F: Barber, John V. Barwick, take precautions, or by any act of less with an hour.. But that' is on Mr. and Mr. A. E. Bigelow, the master which was wrong,
an Resumed hole, and if you double. One always has to bear in mind the hole you have the time; and in a case of this kind that the ques- nobody supposes that five minutes tion that faces the people on the is an actual or a mathematically ship to whether or not it is not as correct figure. It only means that well to leave well alone. Where it happened very quickly.
Mr. A. Dodd, Mrs. E. C. Drake and children, an
Messrs. R. - E. Francis, S. J. you have water coming in which la Mr. Langton pointed out that Fuller, R. A. Felten, Misa A. Fitz- not more than your pumps can there was a discrepancy between gerald..
Mr. C. Mulder.
N
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Price..
at the
time
deal with, you may easily make the master and the mate, as to whe- Miss N. H. Gray. matters much worse: if you begin ther the mate ran up to the bridge{・・ Mesars. A. F. Henry, L. Hand, digging down amongst your cargo, to report the soundings, or whether Mr. and Mrs. A. Holden, By driving wedges into started he shouted them out from the deck. places you may find it may only Probably he did both. It seems have the result of making the split, pretty clear that he was
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Rose If there is a split, worse than it sounding pipe most of the
Messrs. W.Schmidt, was before, Mr., Langton, in his but he certainly did go to the en- Shearman, H. P. Scanlan, very powerful address, as it seems gine room, and probably on to the Schmid, Mr. and Mrs. G. to: me makes the case that these bridge. The pilot says he came up. Dr. and Mrs. R. W Shear people on board the "Vulcano took once, and he may have forgotten it.
no step of any kind to protect their I do not think there liyes or property. He wants me to substantial discrepancy spy, they never took any soundings, them as to make me except, possibly, one to start with, substance and an odd one now and again there afterwards.” They mado no sort of the sinking
Mr. E. Trice, Mrp;
any real Teltzen
M
between Mias A. C. Valpled. believe the Meagra, G Wragge,
RR
WHAT
ARE
YOU
Is the Sum required? $40,000
we anywhere near it yet? No.
have sent in your bit?
No.
DOING
ABOUT
IT? Send it.....
or to
it now?
Yes.
how much is
REV. J. C. KNIGHT ANSTEY
15, Ventris Road.
MR. W. H. SMITH Sailors' and Soldiers' Home Arsenal Street.
TYPHOON MAP
OF THE
CHINA SEA
THE LANDSMAN'S HANDY GUIDE TO LOCATING THE CENTRE OF A TYPHOON
PRICE 30 CENTS.
TO BE OBTAINED, FRON
THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE LTD.
CHINA MAIL OFFICE,
3A WYNDHAM STREET!
MASSEUR R. SHIMIDZU. MASSEUSE S. HONDA. MASSEUSE 8. KISAKI. Expert Japanese Masseura,
Then Whitham, Mr. and Mrs; 2. Whez 24, WYNDHAM STREET,
man, Mr. and ¤ Mrs. L&Willəßörtä,
a gradual finding | Miss D. E. Willis!!
Tel C# 4945.
MASSAGE. NAKAMURA
No. 23, Stanley Street,
2nd floor