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SHIP COLLISION APPEAL
FURTHER POINTS
RAISED
MR. SHELDON'S ADDRESS
Mr. H. G. Shelden, representing the Nippon Yucsen Kaisha, this morning continued his address to the Full Court of Appeal at pre- Bent hearing his argument that the judgment of Sir Joseph Kemp in favour of the China Navigation Company should be "quashed and Judgment given for the Japanese company.
TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1932..
LORD LYTTON
BETTER
GENERAL CONDITION
SATISFACTORY
Pekine. July 26,
Lord Lytton's fever has abated and the infection is deercasing. It
CANTON GUNBOAT
DISASTER
EXPLOSION IN THE MAGAZINE
Following an explosion which se
is reported that his general condi-curred in the animunition maga- tlon is satisfactory.
zine, a disastrous fire destroyed the General Crozier and von Kotze Chinese gunboat Ying Chit oppo- passed a good night, and their con-site the Eastern Baud in Canton dition has improved. Von Kotze is believed to be out of danger, City on Sunday evening, Reuter.
The fre lasted for over an hour. Seven members of the crew su stained serious injuries and had to Captain Ritchie had given his be admitted to hospital for treat- position at 7.45 as in line with the ment while many ethera received Channel Rocks and the Taikoo Re-minor injuries and bruises.
The finery.
At 7.47 he entered a thick fire spread rapidly after the explo The case arose out of the colli-fog and remained in it until 7.51.sion and within thirty minutes the sion on March 22nd, 1931, of the At 7.52 the collision occurred.
whole vessel was burning fiercely. N. Y. K. Steamer Toyooka Maru
It sunk shortly after midnight. and the China Navigation Com- pany's Kiangsu.
SPEED OF KIANGSU, Mr. Sheldon submitted that on The Court comprised Sir Peter Capt. Ritchie's own evidence, the Grain, Sir Joseph Kemp, Mr. Jus-distance between his position at tice Wood. Commander E.D.7.46 and the point of collision was Brooke and Liegt. Commander 74 cables. If, according to his Rudyard Hulpman, R. N. (Naval own evidence, he covered that dis- Assessors).
tanee in six minutes, then his Faverage speed must have been 7:
knots over ground.
BRITISH STOCKS
BUOYANT
DEMAND FOR 3%% CONVERSIONS
London, July 25, Glit-edged stocks showed farther all-round advance on the Stock Exchange to-day.
Mr. Eldan Polter, K, C., and Mr. F. C. Jenkin, K. C., instructed by Messrs Johnson, Stokes and Mas-
It had to be remembered, too, ter, appeared for the respondents, that for four of these six minutes Mr. H. G. Sheldon instructed by he was going through thick for. Менягн Hastings, Dennys and It might have been that at the Bowley, represented the appel-time of sighting the Toyooka Maru the Kiangsu was making six knots, but if that were so, her spend dur, the buying of three and half por The outstanding feature WILS ing the previous five minutes must have been over eight knots. conleaded that the master of the
lanta.
"NO NEGLIGENCE."
"There is no rule of law
Op
LA
Il cent
Conversion Loan, which lifted the price for first time to
Iran.
seamanship." said Mr. Sheldon," Klangsu should have slowed downver £100. It rose ten shillings which imposes on the Toyooka when, four minutes before
to £100.2.6, which compares with Marn the accessity of doing any collision, he knew a ship was cross lone time last year.-British Wire- the 78% earlier this year, and 67 at thing except what she did, that ising his vessel's bows. reverse her engines and go
From evidence given, it is clear that the Toyooka Mara was ready to let her anchors go. There can be no question of negligence."
Lern.
Mr. Sheldon submitted that eves
if the anchors had been dropped, no-one could say definite- Hy that the collision would have i
been avoided.
to Capt. Ritchie's
According evidence, the whistles of the To Yeoka Maru were sounding Bearers and finer. That, he submitted, was LEGAL EDUCATION
elear indication that a ship was crossing the Kiangsu's bows,
THE OTHER VIEW,
Asked to explain his position. Mr. Potter suid that on the facts of this ease, Capt. Ritchie was justified in inferring from whistles that the Toyooka Maru was an outward bound ship, keep- ing a northerly course.
the
COMMITTEE TO TAKE
MATTER UP
The next paint taken by Mr. Sheldon was that the speed of the
London, July 25. Kiangsu was excessive. Although
The Lord Chancellor proposes master and pilot of the Toyooka
to constitute committee, with Maru gave evidence that, judging
Lord Atkin as Chairman, to consi- by the bow wave, the speed of they Continuing. Mr. Sheldon sub-der the organisation of legal edu- Kiangsu was seven or eight knots, mitted that the Kiangsu, was not cation in England, with a view to old be taken by the Court for that a ship's speed should be such work of the Universities and pro- Mr. Shelton said this evidence navigated according to the rule closer co-operation between the what it was worth. His main sup-as to enable her to avoid danger fessional bodies, and for further port was the evidence of Captain when the danger was first sightedt, provision for alvanced research in Ritchie of the Kiangsu,
legal studies.---British Wireless,
The ease is proceeding.
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