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"SMOOTH" TYRES NOT DANGEROUS, SAY EXPERTS Admiralty Claim Against Hotel Company Continued To-day
Evidence that "smooth" tyres were not dangerous was adduced by the defence at the Supreme Court this morning, when hearing of the action brought by the Admiralty against the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd, was continued before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor,
THE GLORY OF ZEEBRUGGE Restricting
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ale bumped into a bank, edged off, and found herself in the channel again, still some hun- dreds of yards from the mouth of the cinal, in a practically ainking condition. As aho lay she signalled invaluable directions to the others, and here Commander R. S. Sneyd, D.8.0., accordingly blew the charges and sank her. A motor Jaunch, under Lleutenant II. Littleton, R.N.V.R., raced along. side and took off her crew.
Her losses were five killed and five wounded.
Intrepid, Was
The Admiralty is claiming £1,200 satisfied that on the day in question 11. 7d., in respect of pension payable he was driving carefully. to Commissioned Engineer W.
A.
In his view, he could not see how Jones, who was injured in the ac- the two "smooth" tyres at the rear of cident and had to be invalided Home, the car could have caused the skid- as well as his passage back to Eng-ding, traveling as it did at 15-16 Innd, his pay and allowance and mph. There must have been some medical expenses.
other cause, becñuse if a car The accident occurred on the road sufflelently capable to go down Gar- to Fanting, opposite the 121⁄2 mile- den Road, as the one in question did, sionc, on July 24, 1938, and 1 is he could not see why it could not alleged by the Admiralty that it was negotiate the spot in question, even due to defective tyres. The car was though the surface hired out by defendant company on glassy: a monthly basis to Lieut.-Comdr. A. The R. M. Baines, who was not present in at the time of the accident.
was somewhat
In Court was,
tyre exvicéable, though it
his opinion, had reached the stage which it ought The defence is u-denial-of-negil-to-be re-treaded gence.
which
Bus Co. Expert Testifies The Hon. Mr. Lee D'Almada, In- structed by Hastings and Co., is for Kowloon Motor Bus Co., said that up Mr. Tipple, Chief Engineer of the the Admiralty, and Mr. Eldon Potter, to 1023 London buses had smooth K.C., Instructed by Deacons, repre- sents the Hongkong and Shanghal solid tyres, similar to those with Hotels.
svine of the Government from lorries in Ilongkong were equipped, Continuing his submissions
Mr. Potter: the previous hearing, Mr. Patter said
In your opinion is a that not only was there no authorityre a dangerous tyre the moment it to show that "mooth tyres, were becomes smooth? I don't think you dangerous, but common sense was also dead against such a belief. The
common practice of motorists was to use tyres until at least the "breaker's strip" was showing. Further, a tyre still got a very substantial life even when the tread was gone.
Manager Evidence
can say any tyre is dangerous except
when it is liable to burst,
Witness went on to say there were 125 buses of his company at present they in service, and the only time changed the tyres. was when the strip showed. The Police "breaker's did not object to "smooth" tyres, and he himself considered they, were per- fectly safe.
Mr. T. R. Parsons, manager of the When a tyre became smooth, it still Hongkong Hotel Garage, sald that had one-third of its life left. There when the car was. handed over to was, in his opinion, no such thing Lieut.-Comdr. Balnes. It was in good is a perfect non-skid tyre; good or condition. Under the terms of the new tyres could skid even when agreement, the vehicle was to be re-travelling at 15
15 m.p.h. garded as the hirer's private car dur- ing the time of hire. The hirer could "smooth" keep it where he liked; he was not caution. obliged to return it to the garage.
One could drive any car with four tyres with reasonable
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not understand how the car could have skidded at As regards the driver. he was the the place in question and in clr- hirer's private servant, the Garage cumstances described, whether avith having no control over hlin.
"Smooth"-tyres, in his opinton.th" or treaded tyres, unless
an application of brakes or
were not dangerous, and there were some out-of-the-ordinary movement occasions when they were equally, as of the driver. gate as treaded tyres. In practice, tyres were invariably used long after the tread was gone, and only when
Hearing is proceeding.
smoking
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liko volenno and with all her guns blazing, followed; her motor hunch had failed to get along- side outside the harbour, and she had men enough for any thing. Straight into the canal she steered, her smoke blowing back from her into Iphigenin's "qyes," so that the latter, blinded and going a little wild, rammed
She
beside it, which lay at the dredger with a barge moored
western arm of the canal. got clear though, and enterod the canal pushing the barge be- ford her. It was then that a shell hit the steam connections of her whistle, and the escape of steam which followed drove off some of the smoke and lot her see what she was doing.
Lieutenant Stuart Bonham- Carter, commanding the Intro- pid, placed the nose of his ship neatly on the mud of the western bank, ordered his crew away, and blew up his ship by the switches. In the chart-room. Four dull bumps was all that ́could be heard; and immediately afterwards there arrived on deck the engineer, who had been in the engine-room during the explosion and reported that all was as it should be.
Lieutenant E. W. Billyard- Lanke, commanding Iphigenis, beached her according to ar rangement on the eastern side, blow her up; aw her drop nicely across the 'canal, and left her with her engines still going to hold her in position till she Should have bedded well down
Istest reports frem. Bir obser- vation, the two old ships with their holds full of concrete áre lying across the canal in a V position; and it is probable that the work they not out to do has been hecomplished and that the canal is effectively blocked.
A motor
under
the "breaker's strip" was showing. BELGIAN FLEET on the bottom. According to
were they re-treaded. Even when the tread was gone, a tyre had still one-third of its life'left."
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Cross-examined, Mr. Parsons said the car was in very good condition PARIS, June 4 (UP)-The ometal when it was first hired. All drivers Belgian-Radio announces that the enguged by the Garage were expert- | Bolgian fleet, composed mainly of enced and reliable. As regards the petrol vessels armed with cannon driver in question, he could not And and machine-guns, has joined the any fault with him, and was quite¦ Allied feets.
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Lieutenant 1. T. Deane, R.N.V.H., had followed them in to bring away the crews, and waited further up the canal towards the mouth against the western bank. Lieutenant Bonham-Carter, having sent away his boats, was reduced to a Cirley float, an apparatus like an exaggerated lifebuoy with a floor of grating. Upon contact with the water it ignited a calcium flare, and he was adrift in the uncanny illumination with a German machine-gun a few hundred yards away giving him Its undivided attention.
What saved him was possibly the fact that the defunct Intrepid was still emitting huge clouds of smoke, which it had been worth nobody's while to turn off. He managed to catch a. rope A the motor launch started, and was towed for a while till he was observed and taken on board. Another officer jumped ashore and ran along the bank to the launch. A bulict from the machine-gun stung him as he ran, and when he arrived, charging down the bank out of the dark, he was re- ceived by 1 member of the launch's crew who attacked him with a hammer.
The whole harbour was alive with small craft. As the motor launch cleared the canal, and came forth to the incessant geysers thrown up by the shells, rescuers and rescued had a view of yet another phase of the attack. The shore end of the Molo consists of a jetty, and here an old submarine, com- munded by Lieutenant R. D. Sandford, R.N., loaded with ex- plosives, was run in to the piles. and touched off, her crew get- ting away in a boat to where the usual launch awaited ther
ever
Offeers describe the explosion NA the greatest they avitnessed a huge roarlag spout of fame that toro.the.jetty.in half and left a gap of over too feet. The claims of another launch to have sunk a torpedo- boat alongside the jetty is sup- ported by many observers, in- cluding officers of the Vindictive, who had seen her moat and funnel wcross the Molo- and noticed them disappear.
Where every moment had its deed and every dood its horo, a recital of acts of valour becomes a mere catalogue. "The men
magnificent," say
wero
the
offleem; the 'mon's opinion of their leaders expresses itself in the manner in which they followed them, In their cheers, 'In their demoniour to-day while they tidy up their battered ships, actting aalde the inevit- able souvenirs, from the bullet-
Commodities
Government Control Of Many Articles
LONDON. June 8 (Reuter).The Government's decision to restrict the supply of a long list of articles applies to many things in common use.
Food is not included, but the de- cision embraces stockings, costumes, underwear, furs, corsets, mattresses,. cushions, carpets, furniture, cutlery, cosmetics, umbrellas, sporting equip ment
Jewellery, fountain pens, culinary pots and pans, glassware, refrigerators, electric Irons and many other things most of which, can be done with without hardship.
Export Goods Unaffected
It is estimated that on last year's basis, the goods now controlled amount to about £230,000,000.
Goods for export trade will not be interfered with and raw material will he made available for that purpose, Control will be made and exercised through manufacturers and whole- salers, both of whom are required to register before June 20.
LONDON, June 8 (Reuter)The Home Secretary has made an order prohibiting enemy aliens to possess any wireless apparatus whether for transmitting or receiving..
the crow could be saved by them, is in this detail of an unusual accuracy, for. the Phoube (Lleut.-Commander H. E. Gore-Langton, R.N.), came up under a heavy fire in time to rescue nearly all.. Through- out the operations monitors and the siege guns. In Flanders, manned by the Royal Marine Artillery, heavily bombarded the enemy's batteries.
The wind that blow back the smoke-screen at Zeebrugge serv ed us even worse off. Ostend,` where that and nothing else prevented the success of ** operationably directed by -Commodore-Hubert-Lynes, G.M.G. The coastal motor boats had lit the approaches and the ends of the piers with calcium flares and made a smoke-cloud which effectually hid the fact from the enemy. Sirius and Brilliant were already past the Stream Bank. buoy when the wind changed, rovdaling the arrangements to the enemy, who extinguished the flares with gunfire.
The Sirius was already in a
condition Binking
when 않았 length the two ships, having failed to find the entrance, grounded, and avere forced therefore to sink themselves at a point about four hundred yards east of the
piers, and
their crows were taken off by motor launches under Lieut-
-torn-engines, to grent chunks-onent K R Hoare, R.N.V.R."
of Zeebrugge. Mole dragged down' and still hanging in the fonders of the Vindletiye. The motor bunch from the canal cleared the end of the Mole and there beheld, trim and ready, the shape of the Warwick, with the great silk flav presented to the Admiral by the officers of his old ship, the Centurion. They stood up on the crowded decks of the title craft and cheered it again and again.
and Lieutenant R. Bourke, R.N.V.R.
The motor launches here were under the command of Commander Hamilton Benn R.N.V.R., D.S.O., M.P., while those at Zeebrugga wore com- manded by Captain R. Collins, R.N. (tho Vice-Admiral's Flag- Captain).skynek a
All the coastal motor boats were commanded by Lieutenant A. P. Wellman, D.S.0., R.N. The torpedo -boat destroyer Botilla WAA commanded by Captain Wilfred Tomkinson, R.N.
While the Warwick took them on board, they saw Vindictive, towed loose from the Mole by Daffodil, turn and make for homo- great binck shape, with fannols gapped and lean- ing out of the true, fying a vast streamer of flame is her stokers worked her up-her, the almost. wreckton final isplay of seventeen knots. Her forward funnel we s slovo: her decks woro dazzle of aparks; but she brought backcondition of success, that the intact the horseshoe ntled to it, which Sir Roger Koyes had presented to her commander.
Meantime the destroyers North Star, Phoebe, and War- wick, which guarded the Vladic- tive from action by onerny destroyers while she lay beside the Molo, had their share in the Hattic North Star (Llout- Commander K. C. Helyar, R.N.), Joking har way in the smoke,
The difficulty of the operation is to be gauged from the fact. that from Zeebrugge.to Ostend the enemy batterien number not less than 120 heavy guns. which din concentrate on re- tiring ships. during daylight, to a distance of about six- teen miles. This imposes as a
operation must be carried out
of night and not Eato in tho 'night. It must take plaxo - at
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