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TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1920.

THE FAUSANG,

A Marine Court of Enquiry was held at the Marine Court this morning, called by F. J. Gill, master of the s.. Fansang" to enquire into the loss of the vessel off Hainan 'Head on May 27:

The Court was composed of Com- mander C. W. Beckwith (President), Lt. Commander, R.N.Stopford, D.SC, Mr. W. Davidson, of the C.P.OS, Mr.

"Sukiang, and Mr. E. D. Black

Answering Mr. Blake witness said. ships frequently used the channel he intended to use.

By Capt. Wheeler: At what dis- tance from the known danger was the black buoy About one cable.

The black buoy is marked three cables from the end of the reef. Using that black buoy as an aid to navigation you are always careful to pass to the north of it?-Yes, but some of the Company's ship 80 south of it.

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Norma Talmadge, the favourite The following from the pen of a screen artist, is appearing in a land-girl is published by a Home Triangle Fine Art drama of lawless

passions, entitled "The paper-

Devil's In the quiet of my room on this Needle at the Hongkong Theatre work behind me and pleasant antici emotional and sensational incidents in Sunday afternoon with a good week's this week. This drama is full of

W. J. Barkus. master of the ss. Commander Beckwith: Do, youpations of the week to come, I've which Norms as Rene and Marguerite duction, the price of paper alone having consider 24 cables is safe when the been recalling the happenings that Marsh as Wynne make the leading sailing directions say you shall not made me a land-worker. It seems but roles.

a weedy. pass within three cables of it. Do sesterday that I was

tormented The story is thar Wytne is the you want me to put that down? anemic towns-woman,

headaches.

and daughter of a man of stern principles dissatisfied, don't remember seeing that in the by

"in who is exceedingly proud of her en U far from happy. I am sailing directions.

and supremely content. gagement with his junior parmer. the pink' Perhaps I can help others by setting Hugh Gordon.

Rene, an artists my simple story down. The doctor model in love with White, the artist, gave me the idea. He has been in became jealous when Wynne was in- charge of our family for nearly thirty vited to pose for an unfinished picture years, and in that time has learned on which White was working. Wynne to know quite a lot about it: finally marries the artist and is dis- don't think your present work is covered by her father.

Rene' gives You would first steer north, hauling doing you any good," said herself up to a wild debauch with slowly to the east?—Yes.

"There is nothing to be uneasy drugs and White grows into the same The current would be on the port about, but I am sure that what habit steadily. Wymie is forced to side 2-Yes..

you need is the open air. I think And heading to round the beacon that if you could get into the leave him and beg for the protection of her home. Gordon, her farmer was rounding the beacon at 5.55 am. you would be steering N. E. by E. country and work or the land over. urges her to divorce her hus- AS from

'you would soon find your health was gradually hauling round.

burn, master of the "Kashing."

Mr. D. H. Blake appeared on be half of the Master. Capt. Wheeler

Messrs. representing

Jardine Matheson.

Capt. F. J. Gill, said he left on May 24 at 5.45 pm. bound for Hongkong. He anchored for the night in Hainan Bay so as to catch daylight for the Straits. At 5.25 à.m. on the 26th he proceeded through the narrows. He steered well to the North of Hainan, allowing for the easterly set and to past two or three cables off the beacon on Hainan Head. The beacon he thought was situated on the head of the reef, which ran ENE As be

he kept the red buoy about two points on the starboard bow. He

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Capt. Wheeler: I submit it is in the sailing directions and you told the Court you read them? Yes. I cannot say I remember it now.......

You meant to pass about two or three cables off the beacon?—Yes. The current was running east Yes.

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Under those conditions you say all that you can wish." I offered my band and marry him, but she declares lectures and entertainments, sert for still allowed for the set to the east the current would be setting off the services in return for instruction, her intention of standing by White in insertion in the news columns of the

off the beacon. This was to avoid | reef?—Exactly.

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getting on the banks on the other. You do not think it would be side. At 6 he was abreast of the setting to S.E.No. beacon, with the buoy four degrees Did you take the ship's position? of the starboard bow. The vessel Coming round in a tide like that then struck on the port side abreast had no time to check the position. of No. 2 hod. He immediately The Chief Officer, was taking an stopped the engines. and rang full azimuth. speed astem. The last order was not carried out owing to water in the engine room. About two minutes after the ship struck she went down

by the head and listed 15 or 16 deg.

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a vertical angle on Hainan Bluff -- He may have done.

that

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and in the end, after long delays and the hour of his greatest need. White.

"Casa Man," will be charged for at much loss of original courage, I overhearing her, determines to rid the rate of $1. each, providing they do found through, a friend, a small himself of the habit ro allow her free-tot occupy more than four lines. If mixed farm in a remote corner of dom and disappears to fight against it. this space is exceeded they will be East Anglia on which I was offered Rene became remorseful for the dam placed in the advertising columns at the training in return for my work, age done to the life of the man she prevailing rates.

to follow with wages

upon loves, retires from the scene and from Hoogkong, May 17, 1920. usefulness. Willowlands was reach his life, thus leaving a chance for The Chief Omcer could have takened by the aid of a slow train Wynne to be reunited with White. travels for rather more The picture is well worth seeing. than two hours at the rate of about being interspersed with many sensa- twenty-miles an hour, and then by tional scenes and characterized by THE Offers and Stations of the the aid of a still slower carrier who excellent acting. drives a tilt cart through five inter veoning villages. The first, by the station, might in moments of ex aggeration be called a town, because it has two streets with shops in it. Outside this village you strike open country at once, chiefly plough land, high-hedged and with a sprinkling

The immediate need of the ship was that it was more important to know to starboard. He gave orders for your position than that the soundings to be made and the Chief Officer should be taking Quarter master reported 5 to 8 azimuths. That was the pressing fathoms of water all on the port need wasn't it?-1 don't know if it side. After the ship struck was more important. the beacon W25 right abean. There was a hope of taking an He told the Chief

Officer azimuth when you had passed the

to get the starboard boats out. point but there was no hope of

No.

158 MILES AN HOUR.

MK TONY MILTONS ACHIEVEME ENT.

These were manifed and all the crew getting round if you stuck thereof old elm trees, but ro suggestion excepting the Europeans got into

of wood or coppice bleak coun- them. He then signalled to the "Hok You did know that a vertical angle try in the winter at looking well

New York. April 28th.-With Canton" to stand by. He then told on Hainan Bluff of 47 min. would cared for. It seemed to me, on the flames bursting through the hood of the Second Officer to go to the "Hck give you a distance suficient to clear afternoon of my first journey, when his 16 cylinder motor-car, Mr. Tony Canton" with a message to report the all danger? Yes. I don't know if I was feeling I had lost sense of my lilton, at Daytona Beach, Florida. ***Fansang" ashore of Hainan Head, the height of the hill is correct. own temerity that I had left the last! Forty Chinese were sent with him. No doubt having been cast on the traces of civilisation behind and was yesterday, established the world's When the boat returned they boarded height of the hill wouldn't you take jogging very, very slowly to the end peed record, covering his first mile the ship. On the 27th he decided to it in preference to, your of the world. Then the, peaceful in 2307 sec.. and his next mile in send the other Chinese of. All the own judgment in rounding the mood of the countryside absorbed 2317 sec. or a rate of 156 miles an Europeans stayed by till they submerged danger?—Yes,

horse and cart and carrier and hour. When he had passed the tape Mr. Milton calmly slowed down and left at 9.10. p.m, an

The Court may take it that you at passenger. The second village we drove the car into the sea to extin the 27th. They remained by the ship and he no time from the moment you hove came to was a cluster of eight intended to board her the next morn-anchor till you struck the reef was cottages without as much as a ing: He boarded the vessel and the ship's position checked?-No. general store; the One that during that time the pirates had been Have you any cause to doubt the busy. The ship then broke up accuracy of your chart ?-None what Witness went to Hoihow on a Chinese vessel and H.MS. "Fame" came there, The Second Officer had taken sound ings all round the ship. He held It is marked on the end of the reef that the ship struck an uncharted in my chart.

ever.

Then you don't contend the beacon is marked on the shoal water?-1 do.

reck. It was not marked on his chart. Outside the beacon there is a faintly By Commer. Beckwith: He had defined line showing shoal water clear weather when he weighed Yes. anchor on the 26th. He intended

On a clear chart you will notice passing the beacon two of three that this foul water extends for à cables off.

cable and a third. There was no Do you consider 2 cables suffe reason why you should not have had ciently safe to pass that beacon?-an up-to-date chart? The reason Yes. I thought the tide would set I did not was that the chart had me further off

been used before and as we were going into dock and then going on the Java ran I intended to get the Java charts.

What was your object in heading for this buoy? To get in the south

channel

What is the idea of making a difficult matœuvre in a tide when you have an open channel is there any reason?-No.

As you elected to use the old chart why didn't you elect to use the same courses as before or the same distances?-1 allowed to pass the beacon by two or three cables.

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followed could daini nearly a dozen cottages and an alehouse: the fourth had as many as three shops: the fifth, which gave a wonderful view over the estuary, boasted a church and a school. Then we turn- e into a lane yery narrow and hedges that suggested Devonshire and came at length to a white gate, opening on to a rough track by the side of a pasture. At the far end. was a red-tiled farmhouse with white plaster walls and a number of out- buildings rambling round it. The 10 cases Yellow Laundry Soap... front door opened and a pleasant-2 looking woman, wearing a white 10 overall, and with sleeves (turned up 'Well, to the elbows, came out. Jacob," she said to the carrier and how are you? I see you have-Miss You had better both come in right away and have some tea; the kettle's boiling." The carrier jumped down with an agility surprising for his years, shouldered my box into the After further questions. Capt. stone floored farm kitchen, and finally Wheeler asked: Will you tell us up inte a little room that overlooks how you came to be so-far-out in the duck pond and straggling orchard, your judgment or your estimated and beyond that a field where young distance from that point? cannot.com is hand-breadth high. tell you that.

Some birds were singing, but their Answering further

break the You tell the Court you struck an song did nothing to questions, Capt. Gill reiterated that he thought uncharted Frock You admit that extraordinary stillness in the air. 24 cables was a sufficiently, safe you did nothing to obtain the ship's The world I had kifown seemed to be distance by which to pass the beacon. position either when rounding the a thing of the past and all the interest Commdr. Betkwith: After you point or when the ship struck. that had been part of that world struck did you take any bearing or Evidence was given by the Chief seemed suddenly to fall away. sextant angles ?--No.

Oficer who said he took an angle off was conscious of the fact that I was Why not? The weather was fine Hainan Bluff and found it was 1 deg. bringing what I had of strength and and clear. Didn't it strike you

7 mins.

determination to a new familiar scene and task. This little experience, so trivial in cold print and yet so breathlessly exciting to me, is only a few weeks old, but after the stranding he went to the already the old life seems to belong They might have said it was a "Hok Canton." The master asked him to another century. I am conscious mile away: We want something how the Fausang" got in that of something at once bigger and scientific. You have no angles or position and remarked that more satisfying although much simp bearings-No.

he did not see how they could have ler, than the file I have abandoned, By Lt Commdr. Stopford: He touched anything if they were 21 and find myself thicking with anxious had been through the Channel before cables off the beacon.

sympathy of my fellow-workers pursu- city ways. ing their appointed tasks in crowded

You have to get rourd a strong tide set point to get into a narrow channel when you have a straight line to Hongkong.

An inaudible answer in which rainsqualls were mentioned. was girer.

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to get some angles to put before the At the opening of the afternoon "Court?-1 never thought of it. I session Mr. J. A. Lindsay, second asked the Chief Officer and the officer of the "Fausang," was called. Second Officer and they said we Questioned by Mr. Blake he said were 24 cables away."

in the "Taksing,” which was a smaller Answering Capt. Wheeler witness ship. He read the sailing directions said he did not give a compass bear. dated 1912, before entering the ing, of the red buoy to the captain channel. He had had no difficulty of the "Hok Canton." in getting through before. His The Court then adjourned to compass, was reliable and without any consider its finding.... large deviation..

Auswering another member of of the Court witness said he had had trouble with his steering gear.

Commdr. Beckwith: And yet you thought it safe to pass 2 cables from this point? The tide was setting off the beacon.

Would it surprise you to learn that your ship was only 700 feet from the beacon. Only 100 feet outside a

it would..

SLEEPING SICKNESS.

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DISCOVERY IN AUSTRALIA.

Sydney, May 10.—What is regard. ed in mining circles as an excellect development was officially announced this afternoon by the Amalgamated Hill End Company. Very rich stone was reported to have been found last week, but the official reports issued late to-day went to more thản coh-

cable. Would that surprise you?—Yes. Important additions to the Tist of firm the previous statement. The diseases notifiable within the area of mine is part of the Marshall Hill End That is by scientific angles which the London County Council have been Gold Mines, and the Amalgamated have-been taken mathematically with made by an Order issued by the Hill End. Company holds a tribute a number of different fixes and by Minister of Health.

until Aug. 11 over the territory in. -sextant angles. The ship is 701 The order came into force on April which latest discoveries have been feet from the centre of the beacon? 28th and the diseases to which it made. Samples which were assayed -Even that on my chart would refers are ophthalmia neonatorum, in Sydney to-day gave returns of 370 'give six fathoms of water.

acute encephalitis, lethargia (sleeping oz. and 680 oz. to the ton respective. The beacon is 200 feet from the sickness), malaria, dysentery, Trench ly. The reel is said to be widening | end of the reef, one of your charis fever, acute primary pneumonia, and and dipping into country hitherto shows that distinctly.

acute influenzal pneumonia.

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