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BOTH CAPTAINS FOUND 'AT FAULT.
Spinller Vessel More to Blame,
FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1926.
from the evidence given before this Court that she sailed from nongkong on January 7, 1926, bound for Shanghai, with 11 general cargo and a crew of 72 hands, all told, as well as 19 pag- songers.
Empress Sluggish on Helm. The Empress of Asia was pro- ceeding down the Huangpu River That the masters of both on the morning of January 11, vessels were collision between the R. M. S. En-Inch, 1
NORTHERN WAR.
FENGTIEN FORCES ADVANCE,
Bhanghai Jan 21 The Fongtien forces occupied | Shanhaikwan on the 19th inst, the main army following gradually. The forces under General Ngai Yik-am
THE MAKWAR DAM.
บ
A TREMENDOUS FEAT.
Rugby, Jan. 21. By means of the great Dam, on the Blue Nile at Makwar, the opening ceremony of which was performed to-day by Lord Lloyd,
FOREIGN ART.
NEW YORK'S CATHEDRAL SCULPTURES.
New York, Jan. 21.
disturbed with regard to the pos
Certain American sculptors are sibility of the oxclusive employ
of which,
to blame for the 1925, in the charge of John Edwin at Shanlikwan and Chingwangtao High Commissioner for Anglo- ment of foreigners for the work duly licensed lotaru rotreating towards Lanchow and Egyptian Sudan, a vast region in in the Cathedral of St. John the press of Asia and the 1. C. S. Nothing unusual occurred, until General Chang Hok-liangis pro- the Sudan will be converted from Divine, the architect degree of responsibility attached u stuck Point, about six miles katuan. The forces undor. General agricultural country. The im- New York Times that he fears verdict of the Naval Court of 40War Wharf, whence she had preparing to act on the defensive at tion is 300,000 acres of black soil barred from work there. bocausa
to the latter
of Beror, t
time she
then
Choongli, General Ngai at Onshän and General Tong at Lanchow. Wah Kiz Yat Po.
barren steppe into a thriving mediate area brought into cultiva
admirably stilted for growing cotton,
one
Mr. Ralph Cram, has informed the Tungshing, but that the greater about 7 a..n., when she approach. cending to Shanhaikwan from Man
the China Merchant's Ngai Yik-sam-and Tang Chi-tao are
American sculptors may be de Stanmor, was the below
started her voyage. As she was inquiry, Kiven at 1. M. Supreme Jounding Black Point, she obser-
they have been trained in classical Court. Shanghai, on tho 6th last. The Court WAS composed red three steamships coming up
schools and do nudes, while the of" L-Comdr. R. D. King-ver towards Shanghai, Tho
Crop Rotation,
foreigners excel in draped figures. Harman, K.N., Mr. E. W. Pat two of these steamships she
Crops are being sown on a three Mr. Cram said that" only Mils, onippag vice-Consul, Capt. passed on her port hand. The
as shown by the evidence (includ-years rolation the soll being one foreigner was at present employed, W. Gray, master of the str. City card of them was the Tungshinging the position of the wreck) year under cotton, the second but he hoped to employ four or
distance of three- Capl. N. I which, at a
that he was not holding his star-under Lubia and the third "year five Americana; but if anyone Leiten, muster of str. Shuntien,arters-of-a-mile, being
board side of the chunnel when he fallow. The reservoir above the tried to dietate to him he would Mr."R. N. tcleat appeared for ghtly on the starboard bow of
Grat blew one blast. the Canadian racine Steamships, the Empress of Asia, blew one
Dam is thirty miles long and forty cease to have the smallest interest The Court considers that, of the metres high. ost of her whistle; at the same two ships, the greater degree of a solied musoury, the granite bevice.
It is constructed | in them.-Router's American Ser- Min. Duncan Me.wil for the Indo», Chia S. 2. 06.
altered her
course responsibility for the collision ating oblained from quarries in the nantly to starboard. The Em-taches to the Tungshing,
s of Asia replied with one The Court considers that the neighbourhood. The major por was Arst let into irrigation canals blast and put her helm to port officers and crew of both ships tion is composed of masonry on the 15th, July. The construc
th the fatention of altering. her conducted Jurae to starboard but, the ship after the collision and that all of Portland cement. The sluice currently with the crection of the themselves properly in cement mortar with a facing tion of the canals proceeded con- her helm on nossible steps' were taken to save of the Tungshing, recalled, stateding sluggish on
openings are lined with, dressed Dam and necessitated the excava- that at the time of the collisionat this alteration was Eimust
edunt of shoal water, it appears life.
ushlar. At the end of The Court desires to record its masonry portions, the Dam is cable metres of earth.. quite a number jumped "**Over"
the tion of upproximately 15,000,000 board, while others climbed up
mperceptible.
opinion that, on the morning continued on both the east, and, ladders to the Empress's fore Precautions to Lession Impact. January 11, 1926, the conditions west sides by an earth embank metres of main canais
There are in all some 99 kilo- deck or got into junks which
and 900 When the
were about of tide and weather were not auchment with a heavy concrete facing kilometres of branch ships The chief en- came alongside.
and sub- gineer, the second officer and wit being still slightly on the star-down the Huangpu a vessel of the engineering was actually finished able, is but the first part of a
Jalf-a-mile apart, the Tungaling, as to render it imprudent to take all on the upstream side.
sidiary canals. This
This achieve- ness got into the Asia's lifeboat. board bow of the Empress of
tremendous feat of 'ment, although in itself so not- Witness called the junks along Asia, again blew side the Empress and told the
just in time to catch last year's complete scheme of irrigation survivors to come on board.
flood, The first train crossed the which is Dam at the end of June and water British Wirelesa.
being undertaken.-
Before delivering their finding. the tour Gecknad "to hear evidener as to the number 01 lives lost in the disaster.
Capt. J. M. Sturgeon, master,
He
and altered her cotrac to
спо blast size of the Empress of Asia,
star-
AUBURN
The expenses of the Court, fixed board. mastered his crew on the liner replied with
The Empress of Asia at S11 8%, are approved.
onu blust and They were found to be all cor
put her helm hard aport and her rect, He then took a statement engines to half-speed. Immedi- from the
Tungshing's compra-ately after this, it became ap- dore. At that moment the com-parent that a collision was im- pradore estimated that five pasminent. The Tungshing then sengers were missing, whichstarboarded her helm estimate he later increased to 10. intention of reducing the force of ith the The compradore was responsible the impact. The Empress of for the Chinese passengers. As Asia went full astern with her there were many small sampans starboard engine and full ahead in the vicinity, the passengers with her port engine. Just be- might have gone ashore in them.fore the impact, the Empress of
Compradore's Estimate of
Asia went full speed astern with both engines and the Thughing The Tungshing's compradore.
also went full speed astern. informed the Court that at the Tungshing Sant in Two Minutes. commencement of the voyage he Look on board 27 Chinese, passen the Tungshing abaft
The Empress of Asta struck Kura, This number was later
the boat redteed to 15. Witness thought deck and abreast of her No. & that as a result of the accident
hold, at an angle of about 35
Casualties.
•
4
10 out of the 13 had been drown-degrees. The Empress of Asia's
ed. It was his belief that they were not taken off in sampau and he saw no passengers being picked up.
gines were stopped and the two bins remained In contact; the ungshing sank in about two minutes in 30 feet water! The Inspector' Bournes,
Einpress of Asia stood by and Police, stated that he had receiSome rative eraft, which were in Inwered a boat to save life. ved no reports of dead bodies picked up. The River Police ber of Chinese.
the vicinity, also rescued a nom- Ten Chinese
River.
were on the scene about two and
ja half hours after the collision. Passengers are not accounted for, On the afternoon of the 12th and some, at any rate, appear to. but no bodies have been found instant, P. C. Davis saw a man have been who gave his name as the Rev. ashore by these Chinese boats.
rescued and taken Garelli, of St. Joseph's Hospice, Nantuc This gentleman stated press of Asia was holding her.
The Court finds that the Em that one teacher and three boys right side of the river after pass- had been passengers in the Tunging Black Point and steering, a shing from Hongkong.
As yet they had not appeared at the los across to the left, or Shanghai very alightly diagonal course pice, which was ignorant of the side, and that her sluggishness umes of the boys, but believed in answering her helm prevented [they were Chinese..
more than a very small, altera- tion in her course in the two or The court then retired and three minutes preceding the col- after three-quarters of an hour'slision, which appears to have oc- deliberation, found as follows:
curred in about mid-channel.
The Finding.
The Empress of Asia was a steam vessel of 16,909 registered
Both Captains in Error.
gross tonnage, ollicial number The Court is of the opinion that 135,226, built at Glasgow in the the master of the Empress of Asia year 1913 and belonging to the navigated his ship in a seaman- port of Vancouver, It appears like and proper manner from the evidence given before that, having regard to the circum- except this Court, that she sailed from stances, he should have stopped Shanghai on January 11, bound or reduced speed at the moment for Vancouver with a general when he first ported his helm; he cargo and a crew of 556 hands, failed to do so, and the Court for all told, as well as 241 passen-this reason considers that blame
attaches to him.
gers.
The Tungshing was a steam the Court considers that the mus With regard to the Tungshing. vessel of 1,869 registered grosser was in error in not altering tonnage, official number 18.263, his course to starboard sufficient- built at Newcastle-on-Tyne in thely at an early enough moment.. year 1903, and belonging to the having regard to the circumstances port of Hongkong. 11 аррецен
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