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WEATHER REPORT.
area
On the 19th at 11,15 am. - Pressure has de”, creased slightly over the Philippines; moderate increases or very sight changes have occurred elsewhere. The high pressure
has strengthened: the trough remains stationary, a trphoon centro being probably situated about 300 miles to the E. of Lazos, moving westwards
|Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at j 10a.m. to-day, 0:00 Inches.
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noce to-day is sin follows:-
DISTBIOL.
CHINA COAST
Station.
FORECAST Vladrostook Lightwesterly or Nemuro rariable winds, Hakodate Hongkong & Neighbourhood, probaby fresh.
Tokia ening later from Efair to cloudy. (The mame
No. 1. The esme
Formosa Chancel
South ecest of Chiza between Hongkong and Lamechn.
South coast of China between (The Hongkong and Hai.. Į
REGISTER.
[709-9
THE GREAT CRIME OF TEH
** LUSITANIA."
THE COURT'S FINDING.
Lord Morsey at Caxton Had! delivered the judgment of the Board of Trade Court of Inquiry appointed to investigato the circumstances of the loss of the Lusitania, the great Cunard liner which on May 7th was torpedoed by a German submarine and sunk off the south-west count of Ireland.
Tho assessur
MORE THAN ONE SUBMARINE,
his ship would have reached Liverpool in safety. But the question remains, Was
The Lusitania was struck on the star-hia conduct the conduct of a negligent board side (by the first torpedo), some where between the third and fourth.
or of an incompetent man? funnele A second torpedo was fired
On this question I have sought tho guidance of my assessors, who have ren conclusion at which I have arrived is that
immediately afterwards, which also dered me invaluable assistance, and the
struck the ship on the starboard side.
The two torpedoes struck the ship blame ought not to be imputed to the
Both these tor-captain.
SKILLED AND EXPERIENCED JUDGMENT,
The advice given to him, although meant for his most serious and onrefal
almost simultaneously. pedoes were discharged by a German Submarine from a estimated as from 200 to 500 yards. No distance variously warning of any kind was given.
It is also in evidence that shorts consideration, was not intended to d
Skilled judgment in the difficult questions navigation of his ship. His mission lo
afterwards torpedo from another sub-
Fuglelield, Lieutenant Commander Hearn, torpedo did not strike the ship, and the thus might arise from time to time in the were Admiral Sir Smarine was fired on the port side. This prive him of the right- to excroise Lis
Captain Davies, Captain J. Spedding.
THE CUGAT'S FINDINGS.
Lord Mersey said: ---.
The Court, having carefully inquired into the circumstances of the disaster, finds that the loss of the said ship and fives was due to damage caused to the said ship by torpedoes fired by marine of German nationality, whereby the ship sank
with-
In the opinion of the Court the act was done not merely with the intention of sinking the ship, but also with the inten tion of destroying the lives of the people on board.
The report stated that there were 1,95 people present on, board, There wer forty-eight boats, 2.325 life jackets, (125 of which were for children); and 35 lifes bungs.
LA COMPETENT CREW,
Lord Mersey said that he was of opinion that the two captains and officers were competent inerr. The Canard Com pany had lost all its R.N.R. men and Fleet Reserve since the war, and the efforts of the company to train the men at their disposal to be proficient in handling
the bouds seems to have been successful.
HEROIC BAILOM..
circumstance is only mentioned for the purpose of showing that perhaps move than ane submarine was taking part in foliow the adrie in all respects canno
the attack.
SUNK IN TWENTY MINÚTEN. The Lusitania ou
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being, struck took
fairly be attributed either to negligence for incompetence.
"He exercised his judgment for the best. It was the judgment of a skilled and experienced man, and although perlais more successfully, he in my opinion, to be blamed.
a heavy list to starboard, and in less than others might have acted ought
twenty minutes sho saak in doen water. women and chiuren were row bed. Eleven hundreel and ninat sight men.
"Sir Edward Carson, when opening the case, described the course adopted by the German Government, in directing this Law and the usages of war, and con uttack mu contrary to International stituting. acording to the law of all "civilised" countries,” a deliberate attempt to murder the passengers on board the ship.
A MURDEROUS ATTACK.
The
This statement is, in my opinion. true, and it is made in language nut. n. whit too strong for the occasion. defenerless creatures, on hoard, made up less children, were done to death by the of harmless men and women and of help- crew of the German submarine acting. under the direction of the officials of thự
German Government,
In the questions submitted tự me by the Board of Trade 1 um 'asked, * What Lord Mersey singles out one of the
was the cause of the loss of life' The crow, Leslie N. Mortou, who was only
answer is plain. The effective cause of eighteen years of age, who seemed to the loss of life pray the attack mad have exhibited great courage, self-pusses against the ship by those on board the sion, and resource."
submarine. He was the firs to observe the approach of the two torpe-made with a deliberate and wholly
It was murderous attuck becaus does, and reported them before they Louched the ship. Having dono all he could on board, he was thrown into the water, but, with the assistance of a man named Parry, succeeded in saving fifty or sixty passengers. He then went back, and succeeded in rescuing twenty thirty more people.
MISHAPS.
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No doubt, said his lordship, there were mishaps in handling the ropes of the boats and in other such matters, but there was, in my opinion, no incompetence or neglect, and I am satisfied that the crew behaved well throughout, and worked with skill and judgment, Many more than half their number lost their lives..
NUMBER OF CREW DROWNEÓ....
the
*The total crew consisted of 702, made ap of seventy-seven in the Deck Depart ment, 314 in the Engineering Department, METEOROLOGICAL 306 in the Stewards Department, and of ve musicians. Of these 677 were males and twenty-five were females, males 97 were lost, and of the females sixteen, making the total number lust 413, Of the males 280 were saved, and of the females nine, making the total number saved 289.
19TH AUGUST, AM.
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Highest open air Temperature on 18th - 29 Iowaat open air Température on 18th .... 78
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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
From 20th to 2th August.
HIGH WATER
LOW WATER.
I'kong.
H'kong
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Mean
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I find that the conduct of the masters, the officers, and the crew was satisfactory, They did their best in difficult and perilous circumstances, and their best .was good..
THE PASSENGERS.
were
The number of passengers on board when she sailed was 1.257. Of these 944 were British and Canadian, 150 American, and the remainder were of seventeen other rationalities. Of the Bri- tish and Canadian, 684 perished. Of the American 124 perished, and of the remainder seventy-seven perished
The total number lost was 785, and the total Bumber saved was 472.
Of 688 males, 11 were lost; of 110 females, 270 were lost. Of ninety child ren, fifty-nine were lost; and of thirty- nino infants only four were saved.
NO MARKED OUNS.
The cargo was a general cargo of the ordinary kind, but part of it consisted of a number of cases of cartridges (about 5.000). This ammunition was entered in the manifest. It was stowed well forward
unjustifiable intention of killing the people on board. German authoritieg on the laws of war ut sen themselves establish
beyond all doubt that though in som cases destruction of an enemy trader may be permissible, there is always an obliga- tion first to secure the safety of the lives of these on hoard-
GERMANY'S GUI
Lad nob,
The whole blame for the cruel do traction of life in this catastrophe must wat solely with those who plotted and with those who committed the orime The Court found that no exploded or ignited, and that ine Cargo -precautions taken to save the lives on hoard were ressonable and proper.
There was no neglect of the master in giving orders for the getting out of the boats.
There was no blame attached to tho master for the loss of the boat, nor doos any blame attach to the owners.
The Lusitania was not flying any flag, and no attempt was made espipe from the subtanrine, to resist visit or search, un avid captare.
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No warning was given by 'the sub- marine for any request to stop, not was any opportunity, given to persons on board to leave, The Taxitania was not armed.
AMERICAN PRESS ON · BOEK LOYALTY.
GERMANY'S LOST COLONIAL- EMPIRE.
le appeals to the American newspaper ease of ironic humour that the first de. finite success of the war should be the Gor- man loss of South-West Africa to an army beginning of the war having fondly count led by a Boer General;, the Germans at the on the Beers rising and driving ahe British into the sen
The guilt of the persons concerned in the present case is confirmed by the vain pxcuses which have been put forward on their behalf by the German Govern ment, as before mentioned.
The wat, the Yew York Tribune points: out las already cost Germany an African possession on which so much blood and
One witness, who described himself as a French subject from the vicinity of Switzerland, and who was in the second sure we wnated for grays, as well as class dining-room in the after part of the her Pacific Islands and Kino-Ch ship at the time of the explosion, stated Neiher the Union of South Africa n
in the nature of the explosion was Australia, the paper helds, will consel similar to the rattling of a Maxim gur
to the restoration to Germany, after th for a short period, and suggested that war. of her former colonies, so that the this noise disclosed the sceret existence losses are permanent, and Germany wid of some ammunition. The sound, 'sceny a smaller pines in the sun than came from underneath the whole four.
DISCREDITED EVIDENCE.
her tofore.
The capture of South-West Africa, the Erening Post observés, marks the extinc I did
not believe this gentleman. tion of the German Colonial Empire His demeanour was very unsatisfactory. After all the Emperor's exhortations to There was no confirmation of his story Germany to look to her future on and and it appeared that he had threatened across the ocean, the whole colonial edition the Cunard Company that if they did not built up with such pains and at such cost make him some immediate allowance un recount of a claim which he was putting is the further bitter reflection that the blow has now crambled to the ground. There forward for compensation, he would have was dealt by Boers, who are now loyal the unpleasant duty of making his British subjects, What a change from the opinions public, and, in soul of day when the Emperor sent to President ducing evidence which will not be to the credit either of your company or oThe wise and teste colonial policy of Kruger his famously impudent telegram 1" Great Britain ja giving self-government to the Boers, the Past says, has received “a wonderful vindication, "It is the Boer General Botha who received the surrender of the Germans. In that fact alone there is a whole history, as well as an entire body of political morala
the Admiralty." The company had not complied with his request.
NO EXPLOSION IN CARGU.
In my opinion there was no explo sion of any part of the cargo.
sonus of
Complaints were male hy this witnesses about the manner in which the boats were hunched, and about their leaky condition when in the water, I do swot question the good faith of these wit- nesses, but I think their complaints were ill-founded.
"There were doubtless 'gome" accidents in the handling of the boats, but it is impossible to impute, negligence or incott- petence in connection with them.
***The conclusion at which I arrive is
COSSACK V. UHLAN, THE MARKED SUPERIORITY OF THE RUSSIAN.
An interesting comparison of the
in the ship on the upper and lower decks, that the boats were in good order at the German and Russian cavalry is made by
and about fifty yards away from where the torpedoes struck the ship. There was no other explosive on board.
It has been said by the German Government that the Lusitania was equip ped with masked guns, that she was sup plied with trained gunners, with special numunition, that she was transporting Canadian trogs, and that she was violat ing the laws of the United States.
These statements are untrue; they are nothing but baseless inventions, and they serve only to condemn the persons who make use of them, Ti steganer carried ro masked guns, nor trained gunners, or special ammunition, nor was she trans porting troops or violating any laws of
the United States.
moment of the explosion, and that the launching was carried out as well as the short time, the moving ship, and the serions list would allow.
ADMIRALTY'S INSTRUCTIONS.
the ring Posts Petrograd corres pondent:-
Russian cavalry, he says, under modern conditions are as good as infantry. The Cossacks are troops apart, and can use
At the request of the Attorney-Gen- their lances with effect if they are ever eral, part of the evidence in the inquiryquired. This happened once in dealing was taken, an camerá.
This course was with a Germanic force which, unable to The cross the swollen Dniester, strayed into adopted in the public interest. evident in question dealt, first, with Bessarabia towards Chotin, and intes certain advice given by the Admiralty to wiped out solely by cavalry, working navigators generally with reference to first afoot to storm the Germanic strong- precautions to be taken for the purpose hold, and tten mounting to complete the of avoiding submarine attacles; and, rout. The books say that cavalry cannot secondly, with information furnished by charge unbroken infantry. the Admiralty to Captain Turner indivi- dually of submarine dangers likely to be encountered by him in the voyage of the Lusitania.
AGGRAVATING THE CRIME, The Lusitania lett New York at noon
It would defeat the abject, which the on May 1st, 1915. I am told that before Attorney-General had in view if I were to she sailed notices were published in New discuss these matters in detail in my Yok by the German authorities that the report; and I do not propose to do so. ship would be attacked by German sub-
But it was made abundantly plain to me that the Admiralty had devoted the most marines, and people were warned not to take passage in her. I mention this mat
anxious care and thought to the questions ter not as affecting the present inquiry;
arising out of the submarine peril, and but because I believe it is relied upon
that they had diligently collected nl. as excusing in some way the subsequens available information likely to affect the killing of the passengers and Grow ou board the ship.
"In my view, so far from affording any. excuse, the threats serve only to aggravat the crime by making it plain that to intention to commit it was deliberately formed, and the crime itself planned befor the ship wiled.
The European books have omitted to take any account of the Cossacks, who can and do charge anything.
CAUSEWAY OF BODIES. About cavalry the Germans know less than nothing, and have already proved it in this war. The only real use of Germa cavalry I recall in this was except, of course, against defenceless villagers, girls, women, and children-occurred a couple. of month ago or less on the Niemen or Dubissa front.
ing state. Voyage of the Lunitania in this connec lion. I do not know who the officials were to whom these duties were entrusted, but they deserve the highest praise for way in which they did their work.
Being no horsemasters, the German speedily reduce their mounts to a shock- On the occasion in question, having to get across fearfully borov land their wroched steeds were lined up over thear distance of a mile in the direction re
gaired and shot where they stood, making a temporary causeway with their mengro The German cavalry have never charged Russing infantry and have never withstood Russian cavalry,
CAPTAIN NOT TO BLAME Captain Turter was fully advised "Unfortunately the threats were not as to the means which, in the view of the regarded as serious by the people intend-Admiralty, were best calculated to aver ed to be affected by them. They the perils he was likely to encounter, and apparently thought it impossible that in considering the question whether he is sach atrocity ps the destruction of to blame for the catastrophe in which his their lives could be in the contemplation voyage ended, I have to bear this circu
stance in mind, But they
"It is certain that some respects Ceptate Turner did not follow the advice given to him. It may be (though I seriously doubt it) that had be done so
of the German Government, were mistaken, and the ship sailed.
for my opinion the reduction of the steamer's speed was of no eignificance, and was proper in the circumstances..
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS.
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