THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1903.
THE "EMPRESS"—" KWANG TAI" been observed, but the Court would remember!
COLLISION.
PROCEEDINGS IN ADMIRALTY.
(Continued from Yesterday.)
Shanghai, 14th November. Before His Honour Sir Hiram Shaw Wilkinson, Chief Justice, and Commander
Moore, R.N., H.M.S. Sirius, Naval Assessór
The Imperial Chinese Government, the ers of the cruiser Kwang Tai, v. the owners he steamer Empress of India.
. A. S. P. White Cooper and Mr. W. North hande appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr. E.
Sharp, K.C., and Mr. W. A. C. Piart for the
fendant company.
Mr. White Cooper said: The defendants case has been argued at some length with the greatest skill, ingenuity and eloquence by my learned friend. It could not have been better placed before the Court, I shall not in my argument refer to many text books in support of a single story, which is brought out in
evidence in cases of this kind. My learned friend has inferred from the various questions I asked in my cross-examination that 1 may have to mise numerous questions as to the "last moment" and various other paints, He suggested, in a way, that the case which he called "close shaving" is the moment when the Empress seemed to come down on us and
that no danger was anticipated at that time and perhaps the witness recollection of the matter is a little vague. The question" of "the few minutes before the collision, the three minutes referred to by his learned friend, was hardly the correct time, but it was the key to the whole matter; at 11.45, just before the collision, not more, a look out in the crows nest shouted out that an unlighted junk was to be seen ahead some three quarters of a the most accurate and careful watching; the mile away. The junk was only visible by cruiser at that time was only a quarter of a mile off, yet they found it a more difficult mat- ter to see the hall of the cruiser than the junk The attention of Mr. Davis and those on the bridge was naturally directed to that ofct
and the way in which it was travelling, and so carefully it is watched, that although she is hardly moving they were able to tell in which direction she was travelling. They watched that junk and it appeared to them that that junk was travelling across their course and then the order was given to starboard.
length and his Lordship said that he had to Counsel went into argument at much greater
thank the learned gentlemen for the raanner in which they argued the case and he would take time to consider what judgment should be given.-Shanghai Times,
(To be continued.)
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Captain of the cruiser after his course; then again it might be said that an alteration in their course was made necessary by the junk. Now, their story was a very simple one; all the inciden's were carefully studied, it need hardly be said, before the petition was drawn up. The statements in the evidence have remained unchanged, and they stood by their story. His learned friend has stated that that story is a most unlikely one, and, in fact, he says it is an impossible story. He did not suggest there any change made in their course as was suggested; had there been any justification for any such change, this story might have been
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no change in our course, What we contand was clearly submitted in Clause 9, 10, and 12 of our Petition. No. 9 states that a good look out was not kept; No. ro that precautions were not taken to avoid a collision and No. 11 and subsequent clauses state the regulations which we claim she infringed. Now his friend describes this as being apparently incredible. He would submit to the Court that the matter was eminently a practical one. All the excit ing events of the collision are crowded into a few minutes and what took place before may be gathered from the faint impression left on the minds of many witnesses. There is no.
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the situation became interesting. In his mind, there is no doubt whatever that both ships thought that they were in perfect safety at 11.38, and up to within a few minutes, both ships were in perfect security. He also thought that it was quite clear that the Empress intended to overhaul and pass the cruiser at the comparatively short distance of a mile; it is also perfectly clear that a safe crossing at that distance depended on the assumption that the stern light which was observed was broadening, and that broadening was due, not to the fact that he was being over; hauled, but to the fact that the other ship ahead was going over to starboard. Now, the evid ence which he had submitted to the Court shows that at this time, the course was S. 65 W; at this time we know that the Empress altered her course inwards. The first interesting point, and one very difficult to arrive at is that of the distances which separated these two courses at 11-38 L.e; the course they had travelled over and the course the Empress was about to travel. It is of course quite clear that if the broadening was due to being overtaken and not to the course baving been changed, then the course. must be converging. The collision took every- body by surprise. At 11.38 nobody thought of a collision at all; therefore for the recollection of what took place and the angle of distances the witnesses must recessarily be unreliable and at all events they are liable to be mistaken; the distance between the vessels at that time is said to be 250 yards: perhaps the distance be tween the Empress and the Kwangtal was 220 yards; he would not say that the distances were absolutely correct, but he would say that the distance was very short but that he means to say that the Empress was not absolutely dead astern of the cruiser, and that is borne out by the testimony of those on board. His Lordsip would remem- ber that the third officer of the Kwangtai said he thought he saw
a red light ten minutes before the collision, the green light. having been visible some time before that. The man on the look-out said he only saw a green light. Now the evidence on that count is by no means proof; rather the reverse. If identical evidence should be given by all the witnesses from the same abip,there is generally, if not always, a certain amount of suspicion. Of course it must be remembered, that the third officer, from his position on the bridge, would have a rather larger range of view than the man at the stern; the latter might never have seen anything, while the former did At this time there was a reason why the cruiser changed her course. She was mak ing for Hongkong and passed outside Pe dro Blanco; he could see no reason why an alteration was made and it is exceed- ingly improper that any alteration was made; so explanation is in the log book; someone on the Empress omitted to note something down; he would not say this was carelessness;- nevertheless. No reason is given why the course 5. 65 W. was altered at that time. Ap. parently the Empress opens on her course and Subscription to the Honghang Tilegraph and from time to time the man on the bridge takes they are warned against paying more than certain rough 'observations of the position of TEM CENTS (to cts.) per Single Copy. this light and this is where the question of the look-out comes in. No doubt Mr. Davis has cold what he recollected of the light which had
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TH
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