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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
ACTION NO. 67 OF 1928.
Stamps.102
$6.00 (Int.) C.D.M.
16.5.28.
BETWEEN
The China Merchants Steam Navigation Company owners of the S.S. "Irene"
Plantiffs,
and
1.
2.
3.
F.J.C. Halanan commanding H. l.'s
Submarine L. 4
Defendant.
STATEMENT OF CLAIM.
The plaintiffs are a Company in Peking registered and incor
porated according to the Laws of the Republic of China.
The Defendant at the time the cause of action arose was
the officer commanding His Majesty's Submarine L. 4.
The Plaintiff have suffered damage by reason of the wrongful
skinking of their ship the S.S. "Irene" in the territorial
waters of the Republic of China by gun fire from the said
Submarine 1.4 on the night 19th/20th October 1927 under
the command of the Defendant.
PARTICULARS OF DALAGE
Total loss of S. S. "Irene"
Loss of stores on board S. S.
"Irene "
Loss of officers kits on board S.S. "Irene"
Loss of use of ship from 19th day of October
1927 at $1,000:00 per day
Extra disbursements to officers and crew for
clothes board, lodging and fares to Shanghai occasioned by the wrfongful act of the Defendant
$500,000:00
$5,000:00
$15,000:00
$10,000:00
Dated this 18th day of May 1928
Sa. H. B. Sheldon.
Counsel for the Plaintiffs.
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