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A THE " CHIYO MARU” DISASTER

PART OF LINEE SUBMERGED. The latest ipformation available yester day concerning the situation of the Chips art was that she had been broken com pletely in half just by the bridge, and thus no side of the ship, from the after funnel to the stern, was gbmerged, The stern portion of the ship is held by a rock below the after funnel, which is acting as a kind of pivot, The fore part of the rewel is still firmly held. The ship may remain thare incefnitely, it is thought mine alerelict and waterlogged junkir she may turn completars

sink at any moment,

side our land-locked harbour, scarcely ipple, but just outside dong billowing Ils, cash one seeing larger than the and still a long 15-mile, to Lems an intoxicated d. Pitching as if in ator, we reach Waglan, whose lofty thouse could not send its bears far ugh through the fog to warn the Chiye her danger; amal then rolling roll across the swell, due south to Lema. A minutes respite while we turn west to

• paintech eye just above the waves stil iring to show her the way to safety, the

over and

The Captain and all the remainder of the crew have been brought back to Hong

kong.

FOUR DAYS ON A ROCK. STORY OF CHIYO MARU'S SURGEON,

TAK HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY APRIL 6rn. 1916.

ALLEGED MISCARRIAGE OF now be used for asking this Court to

JUSTICE.

SUSPENSION OF AN ENGINEER'S

CERTIFICATE.

Before Mr. F. A. Huzeland (Stipendiary Magistrate), Commander F. Gibson, R. N. Lieut.-Commander R. McMurray, R.N.R., Commander W. Davison, R.N.R., and Mr. E. J. W. James, marino engiurer. of Me:ST®, Butterfold & Swire, at the Mariny Court yesterday, the re-hearing

the investigation int commenced of charges of misconduct preferred by Cap- tain Prichard, of the Fellowra, against the Inte Chief Engineer of that steamer, Mr. Warren Smith. Ar the original hearing- the Court found defendant guilty and ordered his certificato to be suspended for a period of six months.

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suspend the defendant's certificate. The re-hearing must be under exactly the same conditions as those which prevailed at the original heating,

A re-

Mr. Looker contended this was hearing de novo. This was a new Court and it and the power to cancel or suspend the defendant's certificate. He had now peon served with a statement of the charges. undo against him.

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The nature of the charges which wero pre- Man little craft brings us safely into

Mr. H. W. Looker appeared for the ferred against the defendant, which are, Joss-hous Cove" in company, with a de

complainant, and the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pol-briefly, that while the steamer was loading röyer and a Japanese tramp, Ag after the

lock, K.C. (instructed by Mr. Preston), cargo in all four hatches in the river off Saigon and with steam in the boilers the reatest darkness, dain, so after misery.

Dr. E. C. Houston, the surgeon of the represented the defendant, The land-lubbers qu jence-a) ti».

Mr. Pollock raised a preliminary objee three European engineers were all ashore ward cheer up and forget the terrors of Chryn Moru, in the course of a conversa

tion that two members of the present Court and the engine department was left in the tip last hour. Even the official photo in with our representative, gaye a grapher (Chinese) lonks a shade less green graphie description of the crew's terrible formed part of the original Court, which entire charge of a Chinese, who was shipped the rocks from Saturd to had come to a certain decision upon the evi-as fourth engineer, The Captain informed We are is a cove m the North of Lourdeal on

des then before them, and had full jaris the Chief Engineer on his return to the protected by a jutting headland from the resterday, when they were taken off

“Friday night;"' said the doctor. “a gale diction and competznce upon that decision ship that he could not allow the whole of swell, and after tiffin, while the more ad-

on the facts to pass sentence, but not, be the European engine-room staff to be ⠀ vecturon; deleriníne to brave the perils of sprang up, accompanied by heav seal,

the deep gain and no round to the wreck by and the position was so threatening that submitted, the sentence it did pass, of the ashore at one time, particularly whes suspension of the Chief Enginer's certi working cargo in all holds, and that ona sea, two prefer the dry land and are rowed the Captain ordered the crew to leave the

British engineer must be on duty when aatiose 10 take the overind route, We are ship and take refuge on the rocks. Aficate The previous Court had come to told le is an hour and a half's stiff chubadder was placed across a space between decision on the facts, and it was rather ask team was in the bojlers, When the Chief to the top, but constant trafic from the the bows of the ship and a ledge of rocking too much of human nature to expect the Engineer got this letter ho

two members now forming part of the pre-Caption, said he considered the Chinese wreck to the sheltered cove just over the but this was so oily and greasy that it was a clearly exceedingly dangerous to venture across. ridge has in three days wor defined path through the undergrowth and I myself saw two Chinese fall off, and they sent Court to reverse their decision, His was quite good enough to look after the ovey the rocks. In less than half-an-hour were drowned. The water thundered up solicitors had recived a letter from the engines in the circumstances, and that he do his damnedest," He said abe. Captain wo stand on a ledge of rock, perhaps 150 against this rock, and threatened to pull Crown Solicitor stating that H.E. the would go ashore and the Captain could bag no control over the engine-room staff. feet high, and right below us lies almost mo off, while the thick spray wetted us Governor had directed a re-hearing of the the saddest sight a man can see a grea through and through. I sat on this ledge case against the defendant, because in the

for about sight hours, expecting every previous case miscarriage of justice admitted all this except that he said ship in her death agony.

Broadside on the lines to the heavy swell moment to be torn off and carried into the might have occurred. In the rehearing the Cptain could do his damnedest." which is pounding the life out of her: Forsen. I had to hold my hands before my consequently, he arguod, the defendant The Capinin Eter issued an order that if face to keep the spray from blinding me, should be in the same position as when the the engineers desired to go ashore they quarter of a mile before she struck she must.

"On Sunday morning I returned to the original hearing took place, and that he must get the permission of the Chief Officer. have been within 100 yards of the rocky inland coast, which just at that point shoots beat but the First Officer would not let should not be placed in a less favourable When the vessel re urged on Hongkong on out a long headland to the south, and then me remain. I went to my cabin and changed. position, His point was that the defend the 8th February defendang went ashore she hit the rocks within a few feet of they saturated clothing, and was then ant had not been given, as was required without asking permission, The Captain apex of the triangle thus formed in the shed across along a port of tramvay under the Ordinance, a statement of the thought it necessary in the interests of HONGKONG,

coast-line..

such a notice.

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The President-If the notice had been served at the proper time before the ori- ginal hearing, would at have been suficions

Mr. Palkak said he would not like to for the purposes of the previons Court? make a definite admission on that point because some question might turn on it. His comention was that if they had are hearing it must be on the same lines and under amilar conditions.

from the ship to a larger strip of rock.

nature of the charges preferred against him We were carried along a cable from the before the first hearing, and therefore the What a terrible picture! Grim towering walls of rock going sheer down into the ship in a basket a distance of about 150 Court had no right to suspend his wes, and, at the bot.com, the great liner feet, and it was about as exciting as taking Gate. It would be a very extraordinary held fast. A few feet in front of her an overhead trip across the Niagara Falls way of remedying a so-called injustice to bridge a great gap shows in her deck and for the sea was tossing and fuming beneath, put him in a less favourable position than sides, where constant prinding has fully I think I was the first white man to 80 in the first instance. He submitted that broken away the whole after-part from the crus. Once we got on to the rock we were it was absolutely illegal and contrary to all

There we wore, all huddled up

man between the bows. Through the gap enn be seen the safe.

together, as strange an assortment of precedeng to serve, a won water surging to and fro. With every humanity as mind could conceive. There original hearing and the re-hearing with svoll the after-part rites and sways a few was no room to lie down and seep yen if we felt inclined to do so, and all the while yards towards the cliff. the bow's remain

it was raising, Provisions were sent across immoveable. Then when the backwash from the ship by way of the cable and we comes, rises a horrible monning gasp. as had no anxiety on that score. We remained far under water the cruel rocks tear and there until we were taken off at 11 o'clock this morning, when British sailors let down rend her battered bull. A more pitiful. a long rope ladder from the top of the sound cannot be imagined; it is the groan-cliff. We had to climb pretty nearly 250

feet up this ladder to safety." ing of a lost soul, a soul in the torments On deck few signs of life are of hell. visible, One or twe native seamer are packing odds and ends; a Chine is actually sweeping the bridge An offer comes out and inspects that dreadful gap in the fore deck which seams to widen even while we watch, and then goes back to his lonely and perilous vigil, Right in the point of the triangle are a few yards of rocky beach, where those that are left of the crew have made an encampment, going to and from their ship in a cradle Here, with their along a steel hawser, captain and officers, they passed the night; waiting for the end—either salvage or total destruction for their ship.

The Chigo herself lies with her stern very low in the water, hundreds of tons of water having been let into her after-holds to make her less buoyant in the swells Her after-well and lower decks are swept by the waves, and on the starboard sides a boat hangs down forlornly from one davit. All round ber the sea is black with a shiny film of oil; the o-fuel tanks aro said to have burst at the first impact.

The soa is still too high for any salvage work to be undertaken, and only a patrol ling destroyer and our own lausch are in

WEDDING AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL

DR WBA MOORE SISTER E. KENNY,

In answer to the President, Mr. Pollock said he could not say the fact of the pro of two members of the original Court the present Court was illegal, but is was certainly a great hardship. I would new point of law to be considered which be different if there was some important might, owing to the defendant not being represented, have been overlooked in the

The marriage was solamnised at St. John's Cathedral yesterday of Dr. Williams Brownlow Asle Moore, Assistant-Suporin tendent of the Government Civil Hospital, to Miss Eileen Kenny, one of the Nursing Sisters at the Hospital. There was a largo attendanes of friends and acquaint ances at the Cathedral. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. V. H. Copley Movie | original case. (Chaplain), and Mr. Denon Fuller played appropriate music. The bride, who was given away by the Hon Mr. David Landale, was attired in

of the ship

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the

nil concerned that he definita ordera should be given to the engine room staff. The care would not have arisen but for attitude of the Chief He that use corondong in the con clusion that he had been guilty of gross misconduct, prejudicial to the discipline Etúidence was then called Captain Pollock, adtied that it was a most un- Pritchard, in cross-examination, by Mr. uma thing to give an order for a Chief Officer to go ashoro. He had never given Engineer to ask permission of the Chief such an order before, and he hoped he would never have to give su again, but

thing to do. when a man defied him as the Chief Engineer did he thought it was the right

Mr. Pollock-It was a degrading order, Captain Pritchard-It was, No-one ex pects the Chief Engineer to ask permission to go ashore except on occasions like this. Witness, in answer to further questions, said they came up from Australia with four white engineers, He admitted that the Chinese, Engineer taken on in hs place took a regular watch, He was a good man, left in charge. The Chief Engineer was but he did not think the man was fit to be always at hand when the Chinese was on Chief Engineer was tied a ongside" m duty. He did not mean by that that the but he was in his cabin, Witness said he

trying to do. did non compare a Chiness with a white man, and that was what Mr. Pollock was

Mr. Pollock-Bus (ho Chief Engineer

om the man responsible for the safety of surely is the best judge of an engineer's

tho ship to the owners and not the Chief capabilty I don't care about that, I Engineer. I do not consider a Chinese is a fit mus to leave in charge of the engine room while steam is in the main boilers

object to a Chinese being left in charge, Mr. Follock That is merely prejudice against the Chiness is it not 1---You can Chinese,

Mr. Looker said it would stem that his dress of white a complaint that it was a great hardship friend had whitiled down his objection to fen, and silk, with Bonaces of white He did not see how that affeosed the re plented chiffon, and white silk hat trimed with roses, Mrs, Landale was attired in gularity of these proceedings. The Legis-call it what you like, I will not trust a a beautiful creation of Rosal blue chiffon lature had contemplated an even grater or white, with hat to match, and her bitle daughter, Grisel wore a pretty dress of white cloth and silk. The bridegroom was supported by Mr. J. W. Franks as "best man."

degree of hardship than on the present case, for it conferred powers on the Governor to order a re-bearing with exactly the same Court He thought that as it

Do you think a Chiness would not be (qual no any ordinary emergency I'd 1ke to see a Chinese in an emergency! They have got a lot of nervest

Mr. Pollock-Some would say the Chinese

have no berTAB

By Mr. James If the Chinese engineer: tais attitude 1-Oh no, certainly not, I were certificated would you still take up have no grudge against Chinese at all. If the Chine e had a second engineer's certi- ficats it would be a different proposition

After the ceremony a reception was held at the residence of the Hon, Mr. and Mrs had been put forward as a hardship and

guests Lane, East Point Among the us not as a legal objection they might as well were Dr. And

It was & being attired in a smart white silk dismiss it from their minds, costume, with white hat and blue pluse; matter that his friend could make use of

B.N.; Professor and Mrs. Renom Digby, Mrs. Digby wearing it be ented, in addresing the Court. The the wiling

Kenelm We have seen all we out, and sadly restart brown coat and skirt and brown trace our steps to “Jou house, Cove," So hat; Dr. J. T. C. Johnson (Principal Couso was perfectly regularly constituted

Civil Medical Officer), Mr. and Mrs E under the provisions of the Merchant Shinery during the absence of the thres Euro- back past Deep Water Bay and Aberdeen, V. Carpanel, the latter dressed in a white with the swell following us this time, and cloth costums, and white hat; Mrs. Gibson, ping Ordinance. As to his friend's ether in pink silk dress and hat to match point in regard to the statement of charge, past Green Island; and then the winking Mrs. Smalley, in blue costume, and black he considered that that might be taken as bat, trimmed with pink roses; Miss Maker eyey of the searchlights warn us that wo

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are only just in time to get into Harbour (Matron of the Government Civil Hos having been waived on the Indt oseason required to go ashore to obtain it direct pital), who wore a blue costume and black Defendont knew perfectly wall what the bat with white wings; Mi Gorbar, in blue spotted voile and white hat, trimited charges were before he came into Court, dress The whole facts were read over to him an with white rones: Miss Kelsey, in n of Vieux rose silk, with hat to match; he admitted there all in Cour with one Miss Chettle, in a dress of pale Saxeblue voile and silk and white hat tring with exemption, and he then started proceedings pansies; Miss Girling in spotted bluv in the Supreme Court, which were based voile, and white hat trimmed with blue on the fact that he had no bien sold of the and Miss Benson, in figured voile,

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