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INTIMATIONS

"THE "HONGKONG, ROPE MANU

-FACTURING CO., LTD.

"N INTERIM DIVIDEND af ONE DOLLAR (31.-) per share for the six months ending 30th June, 1916 will bahyalla on MONDAY, the 28th August, 1910, on which date Dividend Warrants may

altained at the

The

ComANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the August, 1918. to MONDAY, 28th August, 1916, both days inclusive.

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SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.. Gexarul Maniger) Hongkong August 16, 2018 1 938

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANK- ING CORPORATION.

NOTICE

THE DIVIDEND DECLARED for the Half Year ending 30th June, 1918, at the rate of Two Founds three shillings Sterling per share, is PAYABLE on and after MONDAY the 1th day of August, corrent, at the fees of the Corporation where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warranty.

By Onder of the Court of Directors,

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TORPEDOED BY A GERMANitish that the true

SUBMARINE.

AN: INTERESTING CASE.

In a suit heard in London before Mr. Justice Rowlate, the Leyland Line sought to recover from the Norwich Union Insurance Company the sum of 425 on policy ni marine insurance issued by the defendants with reference to a ship belonging to the plaintifs.

Mr. Leslie Sects, K.C., and Mr. Raeburn appeared for the plaintiffs; and Me. Roche, K.G.. and Mr. n. A. Wright for the defendants.

The policy was dated Fuse 8th, 1914, and was for 12 months from May 24thy

1011. It was made subject, inter alia, to

PATELL & CO, the Institute Time Clauses," eno of

which was as follows

Warranted free of capture, seizure

Importers-Exporters and detention and the consequences

AND.

thereof, or any attempt. thereit, piracy excepted, and also from all consequences

of warlike operations whether before

04400 for bh. to prepared to quote Commission Agents for one way, th

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Steamers calling at SEBATIK of SANDAKAN exclusively for SILIMPO PON COAL (either cargo or Budkers) are exempt from payment of all Pori charges.

At Sebattik Steamers are bertted along. de the Company's whart where there a minimum depth of 27 to 28 fost at low water Spring Tides.

Charts of Sibuke Bay (Sebattik Har Bour), Frices and all other information can he bad on soncerning the Pert

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Roche, on behalf of the defendants, effect of this palicy was that it was an insurance against uarine perils provided that they were not brought about by certain parti-- cola causes, namely, acts of warfare. If the perils were so brought about the policy would not cover them. On the TAKASHIMA, OOHL MUTABE KISHIDAKE YOSHINOTANI, evidence it was clear that the Ikarju never really got into safety at Havre. He HOJO,NAMAZUTA, BAYO, KANADA, submitted that the onus ut proof was SHINNEW, KAMIYAMADA, BIBAI really on the plaintifs to show that the loss would have occurred if there had been no damage caused by in, set of hostility. The train of causation from the act of hostility to the loss was unbroken. Mr. Wright submitted that thers were here co-operating causes, one within and one without the palicy, and the under writer who had excluded one of the causes was not Hable...

&OYUBARL

AGENT FOR SAKITU"COAL

Head Office MARUNOUCHI, TOKYO.

BRANCH OFFICES Nagasaki, Moji, Karatan, Wakamatan,

r. Scott, in reply, contended that the Otaru, Muroras, Hakodate, Eobor. torpedo" was not the proximate corse of

the loss. If touching the "ground" contributed to the final loss, the chain of citation was broken.

JUDGMENT,

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Mustice Rowlatt, having stabal the sets, said that. He thought that phun the I ship got to the quaydde she would have The ship, the subject of the policy been in safely if she could have stayed was the Tharia, which in January, 1915, here, a place was not a place of safety. was under charter to the Royal Mailles le could be scampied lang enough. Stenebip Company and was bringing That she was not allowed to stay there, cargo from Brazil to Havre and London.

aad was ultimately" lost through two On January. 30th, when she was in the combined causes the weakness of the Chancel, about 25 miles from Havre, she Bulkheads and the pounding of the ship, stapped to pick up a pilot, and was there Prima facie the ship was lost by a peți! torpedoed by a German submarine. The of the sea, and the question was whether torpedo struck near the bow and caused the low, was caused by the explosion of MANILA Messrs Macondray & an explosion. The captain and crew the torpedo. He was pressed with the launched the boats and rowed away expecting the ship to sink; but the bulk

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CHINKTANG: Messrs Gearing &

Co.

Co.

case of Pink v. Fleming but in that SINGAPORE: Messrs Borneo Co use an entirely new casualty supervened,

head held, and the vessel, after settling

as a consequence of the collision, it might down Considerably by the bow, remained be, and it was held that the collision was

As the weather, was calm the

not the proximate cause. The cases of explain took his men on board again, and Reischer v. Borvick and Ionides ⠀ v, hy the help of a tug they brought the Universal Marine Auociation were much Ikarin alongside & quay at Hayre. She was kept there fcz some hours and dister the present case. It seemed to tim that this was a case whers every charged 50 tons of cargo; but the wind effort was being made to take the ship- rose and she began to bump against the to a place of safely after she had been guay. The harbour authorities feared torpedoed; but without success. Mr. that she would sink alongside, and they Sunut, contended that the removing from wanted id quay for Red Creas purposes the quayside was intervening New so they ordered her, to be taken out and casualty causing the damage. There were moored in the outer barbour. This was circumstances which thwarted the attempt done, but at her new anchorage aho met to save the ship, but they did not con- with bad weather on February 2nd, and stitute a new comunity. The vessel found owing to the fact that the grounded at A berth, but could not stay there. All low tide her bulkheads and plates were through she was under the operation of TANG YUK, DENTIST, successor to strained and gave way and she became the torpedoing. Therefore, he thought,

a total loss, pa

the exception clause applied and there the late SIEN TINO,

On the facts Mr. Scott said must be judgment for the defendants. question" was whether the Ikaria was last by perils of the weak or by war perils. He submitted that when she was brought alongside the quay at Havre she was in safety, and an-far as the torpedoing was concured the risk was over". The real reason for the low of the ship which eventually took place was the grounding at the new anchorage, and that an ordinary peril of the seas for which the defendanta should be liable under the

Evidence was then called on behalf of the plaintiffs. In addition to the strain TINABLES traders throughout the World on the bulkheads caused by the pressure"

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