THE "EGREMONT CASTLE."
SANK AFTER SALVAGE ARRANGEMENTS.
Struck at Eleven Knots Last Tuesday's Manila Bulletin gives details of the sinking of the 8.8. Egremont Castle near Tubba- taba Shoal, as briefly reported in
The vessel must have hit with a torrific crash. She was steaming 11 knots at the time and after she struck was lying at an angle of 80 degrees from bow to stern. soundings showed but one foot at her bow and no bottom at all at her stern,
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vessel and cargo. The Pompey had Dr. Henry says that before leav 155 men aboard her and the Saning the campus on the morning of Pedro had 24 salvage experts and the 24th June he suggested that all necessary equipment.
the few remaining members of the Foreign Staff (there were obviously 17 still there) should frame some Resolutions suitable to the occasion. when he returned to the campus that night he found that certain Resolutions had been drafted 'and' sent out. No copy was shown him. He was left to discover the Resolu tions from a Hongkong newspaper. Captain Galicano Tiongson, la it usual in American Colleges superintendent of the division of for appeals to the American navigation of the bureau of com-Government and the American on matters involving merce and Industry, stated yester- people day that the light on Tubbataha the gravest International com- to be issued by Island which was reported not burn.plications ing at the time of the accident, is 8 o'clock last Sunday morning, an automatic acetylene flashing according to a wireless dispatch white, showing one flash every ten received last night from the seconds, and unwatched. Pompey, one of the two vessels sent
our columns.
The paper states.The vessel which stranded on Black Rock, southwest of Tubbatahu islands, Sulu Seo," a week ago, sank at
but by the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Company, in an attempt to salvage the big freighter."
The Pompey's message picked up, hero, by the Radio Corporation of the Philippines added that the Egremont Castle's crew of about Afty officers and men are aboard the coastguard cutter Corregidor bound for Manila, The Corre- gidor was expected to reach port here early this morning. The Pompey is returning to Cebu and the San Pedro, second of the salvage ships, to Manila.
Heavy Heas and a squall wrote the last chapter of the Egremont Castle's career, the vessel slipping off the reef and sinking into the depth's-depths indeed-for where- as she had but 8 feet at her bow she had from 200 to 1,000 fathoms at her stern.
·CORRESPONDENCE.
(To the Editor of the
Telegraph."")
Hongkong
individual members of the Staff, acting collectively, as such, with- out the Head of the College seeing the text of the document either before or after it was promulgat- ed? Whatever may have been the Intention of the framers of the resolutions, the fact remains that there has gone out, from the "Can- ton Christian College" to the world a statement which has been inter- preted and will continue to be in- terpreted, as a responsible protest uttered by people. In authority against an act of wanton and un- necessary brutality committed by the French.and British defenders Sir,The President of the "Can-of the Shameen. This charge, ton Christian College", in a very which can never now be overtaken, belated explanation (over a month has done and is still doing incal- after the incident occurred) states culable damage ta"European pres- that not one of the framers of the tige throughout China and the now notorious Resolutions had East generally.
any idea whatever of suggesting which side fired first."
DR. HENRY'S STATEMENT,
We had hoped that, faced by incontrovertible evidence proving that this charge cannot be sub- But the first Resolution states
stantiated, Dr. Henry would have that "on the afternoon of the 23rd issued on behalf of his College an June, 1926, a Chinese patriotic unconditional withdrawal. Noth parade marching along the Bunding short of this will satisfy his and Shaki, Canton, was fired upon critics. Nothing short of this will by Shumeen troops."
The second Resolution states
that "the Parade was proceeding in an orderly manner."
Some people think that the vessel and cargo might have been saved had assistance 'been sent to her more promptly as, for several days after she struck she was favoured with perfectly calm weather.
A. subsequent Resolution pro- Captain Cann, the commander of the Egrement, repeatedly called for claims that its framers are "of help, stating that he had everything opinion that the blame and respon ready for discharging, that a big sibility for the merciless and un- vessel could come fight up against Justified assault rests upon those his stern and a small one along-who directed the fire
Shameen." side. As the position of the vessel was becoming perilous the captain These statements were flung wirelessed that he would jettison broadenst about the world with all! the cargo or take any other measure that he considered necessary to save his vessel if help did not come immediately. He made every pos-' sible effort to refloat his vessel but without success.
Elaborate arrangements had been made by the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Company to salvage the
from the
enable the British in Hongkong and elsewhere to decide whether Dr. Henry accepts or repudiates on behalf of the "Canton Christian College", of which he is the res- the position which 17 members of his Staff ponsible "Hend," took up and proclaimed to the world on the 24th Juhe, and from which they have not yet receded.
Yours, etc.,
Chine
P. H. HOLYOAK,
[Although the above letter criti- the authority, of 17 American precises a statement which originally fessors of an American College of appeared in the South standing.
Morning Rost, we are depsiting But to quote Dr. Henry, the from our usual rule in giving it Resolutions ware "personal expres- publicity, owing to the fact that, sions af opinion"-do they read through the courtesy of our con- like that and under the circum-tempary, we were enabled to stances could they be taken as such? publish Dr. Henry's communic
ation. Ed. H.K.T.)
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