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SANG, COLLISION. YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS.
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The case in which the Indo-China Steam Navigation Core suing the owners of the ass. Montrou for damage caused to their vessel the Fuen Sung by a collision during the Manila typhoon of 100 was continued yesterday afternoon before his Lordship the Chief Justice Sir William Rees Davies) and an. Assessor (Com Beckwith, R.N.) sitting in Admiralty jurisdiction.
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INDO CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED
BAILINOR SUBJECE. TO ALTERATION.
SANDAKAN HAIPHONG ROIHOW
TIENTSIN XANTIA
SHANGHAI TA SWATOW BANGKOK A SWATOW SHANGHAI via SWATOW SHANGHAI
TAINSTAN
Capt Arthur replied that be would prefer to hade steam in order to clear myreputation Pread further. by connael, he agreed that he would abo like to have steam up to that he would have it in case there's muy possibility of using it. Proceeding, Capt. Arthur aid, that if he had been in charge of a steam and gone out, assuming he could get Blue Funnel but he would have got up clear of the wharf and the breakwater sfere it-got-dark-He-could-not think wharf, in which a ship of the untrust of any emergency, except a fire on the
las lying alongside that wharf could, possibly have used steam. If the Mon; race had attempted to leave the wharf she would not have had the power to face the gale because she was dying light"| and had is fathoms of cable hanging The proceedings opened by the Assoasor across her bow. She would have career- putting a number of questions to Capted across to the other side and the mesa Wheeler, the Marine Superintendent of would have been worse." "I believe," the plaintiff company.
witness said, "that if I had been master of the ship under these conditions I would have stayed at the wharf." after tiffiin, evidence of the Chief Offeer of the Westros (Mr. Walter Steven) SHANGHAI which had been taken on commission, wES read by Mr. Campbell Prosser, and the case was again adjourned.
Capt. Wheeler was asked whether there was any piernister of responsibility in Manila to see that these ships ware made properly fast..
Continuing
Capt Wheeler. There is a man in charge. He is in the Customs Depart ment and what he does is to place your ship in such a position that your hat ches come in line with "particular doom into which he wishes to put the cargo,
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Com. Brokwith. Then I take it the
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Com, Beckwith: The Yarn Sang was) lying in a particularly snug spot except] VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY. for one quadrant where she was on a particularly ball lee shore. August is a FFERS will be Received up to the 7TH very bad month. The ship was lying
DECEMBER, 100%, for the Farthing of there with steam" up. I notice that on
Lease of a Modern Equipped Nine-room, Fire- August 31st at 4 um, the glass started roof. Brick and Concrete Residence at PAX to fall and continued to fall until late! Hoo TONG, CANTON: Includes three Bath- in the evening. If you had been in the equipped with Modern Fistures, Com- Yuta Sang under these conditions would Quarters Attractive Location. Excellent Views. modious. Basement, Kitchen and Servants you have been anxious on seeing your Surrounded by about 6 mows of well laid glass fall when it should have risen?
out Grounds with Ten year old Trees. Tennis Capt. Wheeler: No sir, not up to 4 Court. Owner's family leaving shortly for o'clock in the evening Then I certainly Homa. would have been very anxious. I think
Particulars, Plans and Conditions of Sal possibly. I might have been misled the
upon application to BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINK, Smo the other shipmasters seem to SBAKKEN.
11558 have been misled. On the day previous, reading the wrather report, I noticed a typhoon indicated as being shown across Lauzon into the China Sea and the fore-|| cast aid that this typhoon or depression X BOOMED HOUSE on the PEAK, would probably deepen when it, entered
March till November, Fully Furnished. 3 the China Sea. That ras followed by Bathrooms, Flash, System, Hot and Cold later report which stated:Typhoon Water, etc. has entered the Ching Sex and deepen- ed. One who is used to this port knows very well that there has never been re- corded a typhoon "which originated in the China, Seà close enough to affect the Philippines and cross dicretly over it; though on the top of that you would have
this typhoon or depression crossing the China Sea and deepening. That would have the effect of ciusing your bar meter to fall, even if a typhoon, was not approaching, There would be a general lessening of the atmospheric pressure and the wind approaching from the South- west would confirm it. One would not be surprised at the fall owing to the deepen ing of the depression. A typhoon need not be approaching if your barometer is. falling under these conditions. "I am" satisfied that orery shipmaster in Manila. with the information in their possession that they would get through the daily press associated the falling of, the baro- meter with the typhoon which had alrendy crossed the Chion Sen and was expected to deepen and had deepened. They were more or less unprepared. That is "con- firmed, I think, by the small cruft that. were caught in the harbour
Mr. Jenkin: I put it to you, that if the Tum Sang started heaving out on her anchors at 7 o'clock with a view to going out, it was unsenmanlike ?—No.
That closed the plaintiff's case and Mr. Jenkin then announced that he proposed to call Capt. G. D. Arthur, of Messrs. Carmichael and Clark, who would say that in his opinion had the farruse been in steam she would not, when her forward moorings broke, have been in a position. with the exercise of ordinary maritime *kill and care, to have used those engines, Capt. Arthur would also say that she was in a good position and that to have
conduct to drop back woull have been
wanting
in skill, and would have heen fraught with danger and that, in his opinion, the right course for the master of that ship to tike was to remain where she
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The Chief Justice: Will he go so far as
to say that if she had had steam up it would have been of no avail?
Mr. Jenkin: Yes...
Captain George Duncan Macpherson Arthur, was thes examined by Mr. Prosseg on the lines indicated by Mr. Jenkin. · Hë said he was a marine surveyor, beluga partner in the firm. of Mears, Carmicha:) and Clarke, and had been nå veit-
For 10 years he commanded Blue Funnel ships running to Manila,
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Mr. Prosser: If sug entered Manila harbour with No. 1. typhoon sigual fr ing, what would you do ne regards steam! Capt. Arthur With regard to stem during the tvolion months in Maniia. Hongkong and Japan. I always kept *banked fires” irrevonctive of whether a typhoon zignal was flying or not, That was not altogether a maton of personal
judgment." "I think
front was understood to
Capt. Arthur expressed the view that at 0.30 p.m. the Jinnireita berth without steam, was as safe as way you could get in barbour, Under the conditiona
in with or without steam. ho
would have moved. As far as moving back slong the wharf was concerned he did not see that. steun entered into it, The main steam would it have seen re- quired to move the ship.
Mr. Prusser: If some of the moorings had parted and there was a very big strain on the other moorings, would you have used four cuvines to ease the strain,
Crot. Arbur No that is not prac tienble,
Mr. Potter. cross-examining. naked the witness, whether the hurl been in the position of the entre he would have preferred to have steam or not.
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