THE COLLISION CASE,
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1914.
WAR NEWS FROM THE NORTH.
Oil Tanks Selzed at Tsingtau.
POLAR EXPLORERS.
Personnel of Shackiston Expedition.
Sir Ernest Shackleton gires the following list of those who in addition to himself will take part in the Imperial Transantarctic. Expedition
Weddell Sea Party. Sir Ernest Shackleton- leder of the extition. command, in charge of provisions. of general stores, artist,
Mr. George Marston-in charge
"Mr. Frank Wild-ascond in
Ship's Officers Cross-Examined.
Before the Acting Chief Justice (Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz) and Commander Biokwith, R.N.,
The commandeering of the oil (assessor), at the Supreme Court tanks of the Standard Oil Com this morning, the action was pany and the Asiatic Petroleum continued in which the Nippon Company at Toiogtau was one of Yusen Kaisha, as owners of the the war mensures taken by the Jinsen Maro, saed the Indo-German authorities which has he China 8 Navigation Co., en reparted t› Shanghai by wire, owners of the Wing Bag, claiming China Frese of Au $30,000 for daninge occasioned. Sob quen the action, the by a collision which took place in Standard Oil Company have boon the Tathong Channel, near Lam-informed that their tanks have been oleme, but no word to tong Island, during fg on that feet has been received by February 17. The Indio China the Asistio Petroleum Company, S. N. Co. counterclaimed for dam
which is a British concorn. Both ages arising out of the same of the companies have a consider collision.
Mr. Eldon Potter (istracted able quantity of oil at Teingtan.
Nowe haa boen brought from Ly Mr. EJ. Grist) appeared, for the plaintiffs and Mr. D. Ringtau, by the last ship out Sharp, K. O. (instructed by Mr. from that port, that on Saturday with all speed to remove the afternoon work was going ahead buoys from the harbour entrance and to lay mines On Saturday night all the harbour lights were Mr. R. W. James, B. A. Cam- extinguished. On Friday nigh bridge, B So. London-physioist the German cruiser Emden was and magnetician. cleared for action..
Davidson, of Mesare. Hastings and Hastings) defended.
Mr. Sharp said he understood that the Captain of the Wingsang make a correction on a sketch har made yesterday; nobody had suggested it to the captain, it was ble own idna entirely Bo (counsel) would ask his Lordship if the captain might go into the bot and do so?
had intimated that be wanted to
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His Lordship aesented. The Captain then made the alteration in the "turning circle." He Raid the difference was miter inl. If the Jinson Mara had kept her course and sprod, the Wing 1 Bang would have cleared her.
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Mr. Tom Crean in charge f
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Captain Orde Lees, R.M.L.I.——
Lieutenant F. Dobba, Royal Lablin Fusiliers-in charge of
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Lieutenant Courtney Brook- the dogs. lehurst-in charge of a section of
Mr. James Wordie, B. A. Cambridge-geologist.
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MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S
HIGH FAITH.
When the HA L. 8.8. GouLondonasistant magnetician
Mr. Leonard B. Hassey, B. Sc. "I Believe in the British Race.'. erneur Jeschke was entering the and meteorologist. harbour, the Emden signalled:
Mr F. Hurley-photographer Have you seen any warships?" and cinematographer, a member of The answer was in the negative the Wellcome" expedition to and shortly afterwards the Emden the Sudan. steamed from the harbour and had not retuned by Saturday night, Tingiau.
the last report through from Where Are the German Cruisers? The Italian cruiser Marco Polo,
Mr. V. ftudd, Cambridge University and Camborne School of Mines--geul gist
R.N.B., of New Zealand, will Lieutenant Frank A. Worsley, have navigating command of the
~Austrailan Federation. Such a step as the federation of Australia will be the consum mation of a great idea in which local jealousies and petty ambi- tions will be buried in the foundation of a mighty.com In countless terse and vigorous monwealth which is destined to phrases, Mr. Chamberlain probatstrip the waning greatness claimed the political faith that and the lagging civilisation of was in him. The following are the older countries of Europe. but a brief selection, but they are characteristic and may perhap be said to embody the dead states- man's political creed
The most famous of the many striking pbrasce expressing his
By Mr. Potter:-If the course and which has been in Japanese waters, Endurance on the voyage from political confidence and beliefs
speed had been kept, the collision
would have been averted.
which Mr. Chamberlain used
was expected at Teingtan, but had London to Brenus Aires and the not arrived by Saturday night Weddell Sea, and will afterwards Mr. Potter:-On that dingram.The German cruisers Gneisana take part in the surveying and Mail, was this: What I have
As you have drawn, you could not have cleared in the position you took np. You say you could?
WitnesYes.
and Scharchorst, are
reported exploring of the coast.
cruising in southern waters and thore are some of the Shanghai shipping firms that would like to know just where they are. The Nürnburg also bad left Teingiau and was still away up till last Saturday night. It was reported at Tsingtau that the firers and engineers would be taken off the Kraetke, which was also there, and the Janschke, for service on the men-of-war.
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When you sighted, or after you had heard the whistles of the Jinsen Maru, you told us you put your helm hard to starboard and went fall speed ahead. The course depicted on that diagram showN accurately the course you took it is a diagram worked out on certain data. Do you depose that the course of the Wingsong on that diagram, going to port with her helm hard to starboard, going fall speed ahead, shows the amount of swing correctly? Yes.
Shortly after she was The second officer of the Wing followed by 8. MS. Iltia and Bang, orors examined by,, Mr. hrought back. With only the Potter, said the "stand by ordered owing to the fog. The Jaxuar and some destroyers and gunboata in the harbour at whistle was heard before the Tsingtan on Saturday last, and order stand by" was given the Emden, Nurnberg, Gneisenau! The course till that time was and Scharnhorst sway,
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The American vessel Bona metal, which was cleared for Vladivostok with cattle and foodstuff, got out late on Friday
ight,
the Endurance.
Mr. Jeffreys-chief officer of
during his career, says the Daily
said, I have asid.
On January 8, 1902, Jonst von" Balow had objeoted in the Reichstag to Mr. Chamberlain'
A Quotation Prom
Tennyson.
This is the lesson I desire to impress on my countrymen :
BOOL! -
"Britain's myriad voices all Sons, bo welded each and all. Into one Imperial whole, One with Britain heart and
One life, one lag, one fleet,
Tennyson. Trade and Greatness. History teaches us
one throne.
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that no
Mr Hadron-navigating officerspeech at Edinburgh on October nation has ever achieved reul
dredging. iD charge of sonuding and
and bosan.
Mr. A. Cheetham-third officer
The crew of 10 coneist of ex
naval men, trawling hands from Hall and Grimsby, and others from Labrador.
Ross Sea-Party. Lieuterant Aeness Mackintosh, RN.R.. leader and meteorologiat. Mr. Ernest Joyce, in charge of doge and zoologist,
Mr. Howard Ninais, in charg of taptors.
Mr. H. Wild, brother of Mr. Frank Wild, in charge of store- and provisions..
Dr. Macklin, surgeon.. the There only remain now two
8. 30. E. He heard the whistle German fleet seems pretty well vacancies, and these are to be first on the port bow. The order scattered and conjecture is where filled by another doctor and a "stand by" was rnng and the will they turn up firet, course altered to east. When he
The Russian cruiser, Askold nguin heard the whistle, on the starboard bow, he did not realise seems to have disappeared entire that there would be a danger of ly since she left the river's mouth, The Japanese oruiser Tsus. the ships mesting. He, did not hima, the flagship of Rear think of it either one way or the Admiral Tauchiya, Commander other.
of the Japanese Third Squadron, Mr. Potter: put it to you, arrived in Shanghai on the 4th you should have.
Witness:-Ion not the captain of the ship; I am to obey instructions.
inst.x
German Cruisers Watch. The Russian Volunteer steamers I agree, Mr. Blacklock, but if have definitely censed to run. you had been captain would The Poltava, which should have you have given it sailed next Friday, is detained in thought ?--Yes.
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By altering your course to East the whistle beard on the port bow was then heard on the at-rboard bow ?-Yes.
Vladivostook, and the Rjasan, which sailed from Shanghai last Friday, has been held up in Negaki.
biologist. The arrangements for the Rons Sea obip Aurora are not yet quite complete. The Endar- ance will sail from the West Indis Dock and then call on July 29 at Cowes, where the King will pro- bably inspect her. Then she will go on to Cardiff or Bristol for coal and proceed to Buenos Aires. There is a strong hope that the transcontinental party will return in June, 1915, but circumstances ay prevent their return until Jane in the following year.
Wide-Spread Ruin In Honan
Province.
25 of the preceding year, referring to the conduct of Continental nations in criticising
the barbarities" of the troops in South Africa.
greatness without the aid of commerce, sun the gre itness of o nation has survived the decay ui itя trade
"Invisible Bonds of Empire."
We cau bay with reward to alt We can find precedents for anything that we may do in these peoples, the older and the actions of those nations who younger nations Our past i now criticise our "barbarity their their future in oare. You and orgelty, but whose ex not, if you would, break th
invisible bonds that bind ps the ample in Poland, in
together. Caucasus, in Almeris, in Tong. king, in Bosnis, in the Franco- German Wer we have never even approached." Mr. Chamberlain replied to Count von Bulow at Birmingham on January 11,-1902:
Peace, but not at any Price, I wish to live quielly, oom- fortably, and homony with my fellow creatures, but I'm favour of pe ea any price,
On Wisdom.
John Bull and Sons.
We are a great people, but, "They (the pro-Boere) have after all, I bave never been able helped to create the animosity to believe that all the wisdom in which we all deplore. I am the world was absolutely domicil- wall aware that in some quared in this country. tere this animosity is attributed to another causy. It is said to be due to the indiscreet oratory, of the Colonial Secretary. Gentlemen, what I have said, I have said. I withdraw nothing. i qualify nothing, I defend nothing.'
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"I Believe."
I believe in the British.ace,
I believe that the British race the greatest of governing races that the world has ever seen.
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I say that he indeed is a craven and a poor-spirited creature who despairs of the future of the British race.
The Political Troglodyte. If a man Capnot ves the difference between the state of things today and the state of
I would go to our friends, kinsmen in the Colonies and say. "Gentlemen, we think, having regard to the probabilities of the future, that it is high time tha John Bull and Sons entered into partnership."
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MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.
The 6.4. KENTUCKY loft Bingapore
Peking, Augnet 5.-The Go The agent of the Cie. des vernor of Hanan reporta that Unless the Jingen Maru had Messageries Maritimes stated that forty five districts of his province been heading
from as be understood two German are ruined either through in-hinge thirty years ago or sixty on Tuesday the 11th inst., and is due hers away alteration made men-of-war-probably the Guei- undations, drought, locusts, or years ago, he ought not to call on Munday 27th Jzat. you, BDY
would senau ani Scharnhorst, were bail. President Yuan Shih-k'ai hima-if a Liberal or s Radical, meant that you be crossing the course of the cruising between Tsingtau and has instructed the Ministry of He ought to call hill a Jingen Mara?-Yes.
Ngasaki, on the 4th inst. tele-kidance to forward $30,000 to Troglodyte and live D a cave. It is highly undesirable to graphed to the captain of the the sufferers and, has himself cross a possible course of a ship Amazone, then at Moji, to wait given $10,000.
if you can avoid it? Yes, but there for farther ordere,
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TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT.
I do nut believe in the setting. IN THE SUPREME COURT:OF of the British atar, but then I do ¦
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not believe in the folly of the British people,
SUMMARY JURISDICTION. Action No. 1299 of 1914.
Jinsen Maru, port to port; that it unsafe for the Amazone too their own or in neutral port. pire is in its infancy. Now is the Botwoon assuming the courses, Mr. Black proceed to Shanghai, the passen-
course
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Moulding the Empire. The Empire is new. The Em... The American Fleet, Mess ges have been received time when we can would that look 7 Assuming he was on the gere would be disembarked and from the American Squadron at Empire, and we and those who north westerly course we would the vessel herself would lay up Chefoo to the effect that the fleet live with us can decide its future have, or a nor nor westerly in the Shimonoseki Straits. The
Amazone will, therefore, in all will proceed to Shanghai. Admiral destinies. =
Cowies on the 4th, inst, notified The Business of Government. The case was proceeding as wo probability, not sail for Europe the U 8. Postmaster to hold the The business of a Government
on Friday as advertised,
As regards the Cordillere, ont-mail of the Saratoga, Cincinnatti, is to spend itself in doing what Galveston and the torpedo boat it thinks to be right; when it has ward-bound from Marseilles, she The ties of ancient friendship was das to leave singapore for destroyers. A message to the spent all that it has, then it are koisted up. French journ- Saigon last Sunday and should American Consul General stated makes room for its successor.
that the Galveston would leave alists in Edinburgh have eaten of have arrived at Saigon on the 5th.
I rejoice at that wider parrict Chofeo for Shanghai to-morrow, Scotia's national dish and said iset. It is expected that she may August 6. The Japanese cruiser ism, no longer confined to this grace after meat with shouts of be able to proceed to Shanghai Teshima, the flagship of Bear small island, which embraces the 1914.
Vive l'Haggis !" It is hoped that and arrive on schedule time, Admiral Tsuchiys, Commander whole of Greater Britain, and they were not bad the morn," sa namely, the 13th inst.
of the Japanese Third Squadron, which has carried to every olime the Scotsman prophesied of him- There is no further new arrived at Shanghai on the 4th. British institutions and the best self when he smelt the haggis, regarding the steamers of the ibat.
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éharacteristion of the British
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Dated the 12th day of August,
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