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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY JANUARY 8, "EMPRESS OF INDIA”—“KWANG | regular course, in consequence of the order went to the Kwangtai in my boat and assisted

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starboard half a point when the junk was re-in bringing off the crew, In the first pitce I was

parted. But no effect is allowed for the order to resume her courses, which was given by the officer of the watch, and fam of opinion that some effect must be allowed for this. The order was given, but was not heard by the Commander, and it was probably given before the Commander reaclied the bridge.

surprised to see the Kwangiai starboard her helm to avoid the Junk as the latter had little way upon her and being upon the Kwangtat s port bow, to port was the obvious course to take, but even after having starboarded, I consider that had the Kungtal resumed her course after "clearing the junk there was ample room for the two steamers to pass clear of each other. Instead, the Kwangtai "appeared to keep her helm bard-a-starboard until she struck us, being previously loudly hailed by Commander and myself to port her helm."

(Continued from yesterday.) "It appears that at 11.4 p.m. on 17th August ship steering S: 65 W. (true) weather very fine, clear but dark, passed Good Hope Cape Light

I have come then to the conclusion that the 16 miles off, there being then two steamers

time which elapsed between the order hard a ahead on either bow, steering more or less as ourselves. One Bell 11.45 p.m. (1147 Log starboard and the collision was considerably Book or apparent time) was about to be made less than the time taken in the plan, and conse. when a junk-was reported by the lookout and quently that the time which elapsed between being uncertain as to her movements, the helm the reporting of the junk and the collision was was put to starboard to give her a wider berth, also less. I think it probable that the time That being the deck-stern lights of one of the steamers did not exceed two minutes. referied to being North of the junk and about 10, I am advised that the fact of the cruiser's The stem light bearing about three points on the three points on our starboard bow. Master hearing order to starboard came on the mail steamers starboard bow was quite con- bridge and directed that helm should be star-sistent with the two steamers having kept boarded to give steamer a still-wider berth, their respective courses, the cruiser about when it was noticed that the steamer was rapid-S.65 W. true and the mail steamer about S. ly starboarding and closing with us, the port 69 W. true, and I have come to the conclusion. engine was immediately reversed full speed, that up till that time they had kept their but the steamer which proved to be the Chinese courses, but that they were much nearer to each other than was appreciated by those on cruiser Kangtif closed and struck us on star

I have also come to board side at an angle of about zo degrees to board the mail steamer, 30 degrees by forward gangway ladder ripping the conclusion that after the order was given it away, the starboard engine was then stopped by the officer of the watch of the mail steamer and the Kwangtai glid along ship's side and it to starboard half a point and her head had gone was supposed she had sustained no injuries be-off to port under a starboard helm she bad yond a glancing blow. Engines were at once used to bring ship back to the vessel who now showed signs of distress by frequent blasts on Byren, boats were cleared away and two life boats at once dispatched to assist, finally eight of ship's boats were taking off her crew, she apparently having received damage aft, evident. ly from contact with our starboard propeller."

Then follow particulars of the rescue work, and of the sinking of the cruiser at 1.27 a.ap.

It will be at once observed that while the plan make the two vessels meet at an angle of about forty-five degrees, the entry in the log book makes the angle one of between 20 and 30 degrees, and this agrees with the evid- ence of most of the mail steamer's witnesses, and is also more in accord with the injuries sustained by the mail steamer. In another plan drawn during the trial the angle is shown as forty degress, and that seems to be the lowest angle the manœuvres assumed in the plan admit of.

early if not altogether resumed her coarse when the order hard a starboard was given, and that after that order was given there was not time for the mail steamer to after the direction of her head in much as is put down on the plan, and that she had not time to get off the course she was on until she was on the top of the cruiser, in other words that when the order hard a starboard was given the collision was inevitable, not by reason of the cruiser star- boarding but by reason of the mail steamer having kept her course too long without taking any steps to avoid the cruiser.

Before the question of the cruiser starboard: ing or not starboarding is disposed of, it is necessary to consider the evidence with regard to the junk. The learned Counsel for the defendants laid much stress on this element in the case, as a ground for the contention that the cruiser must have altered her course. I et us see how that evidence stands,

All those on board the cruiser who were If the vessels had met at that angle the dam.examined on the point testified that they saw age at the points of first impact would probably no junk. One very material witness both as have been much more serious.

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The statement of the lookout in the crow's nest is as follows:-

I was on the lookout in the crow's nest of the Empress of India

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till time of collision, I saw a fishing-boat on the starboard box without lights and be- tween the ship and the Kwanglai, I saw the Kwangiai alier her course to port and pass BABY between the ship and the fishing boat. Up to the time of the Kwanglai altering her course there was any amount of room between our ship and the Kwangtai, I consider that had the Kwanglai resumed her former course on clearing the fishing boat there would still have been plenty of room between the vessels. She did not alter her course back at all."

The exception I have referred to is the statement of the third officer. There is in it a reference to the junk, but it is erased, and there is in it no further mention of the junk. (To be continued.)

THE

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FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, TO-MORROW (SATURDAY), the 9th January, 1904, R 2.30 P.M., at their SALES ROOMS, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street,

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regards this point and as regards the move- But a more important element is the elementments of the cruiser generally was absent, that of time. We can not expect to have in a colli- is, the rommender of the cruiser who was on sion a record of the exact moment at which each the bridge and in charge of the navigation at thing is seen or done, but we have in this case the time of the collision and for some time THE Undersigned has received instructions the means of judging with reasonable accuracy before. He was among those who were drawn- the interval which elapsed from the time the ed when the cruiser sank, and I shall have cruiser was seen to starboard until the bows of occasion to refer to the subject of his death. But for the matter now in hand it is Brough to. the two vessels cime into collision.

say that the witnesses fmm the cruiser who were asked had they seen any junk answering in time and position to the junk in question all denied that they had seen such a junk.

TO-MORROW

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The Commander says that very soon after going on the bridge it appeared to him that the cruiser was closing and he gave the order to starboard, that as he gave that order he was

If we turn to the general statement in the ure was closing, and gave the order to hard a starboard, and, as he did so, to save official log book of the mail steamer we find time, he worked the telegraph himself and or the junk la mentioned, but the bearing is not dered the port engine to be reversed, and he given. The statement is signed by the com- ways that the order to reverse the port engine mander and the mate but so far as regards the remained on the telegraph until the first im-junk it appears to be entirely an impersonal pact. The engineer in charge of the port statement. The mate was not examined and engine says that he was standing within' a few he does not appear to have been in a position -feet of the levers when the telegraph bell rang, to see what took place before or at the time of that he reversed at once, and that the next the collision. Those on heard the mail steamer order full speed ahead was given at the time of by whom the junk might have been seen, were, or immediately after the impact. He said that as we have been told, seven in all, that is the W SEREE ftom This Date to sign the

it takes from ten to fifteen seconds to alter from full speed ahead to full speed astern, and he estimated that the engines were going asters fully three quarters of a minute. But he afterwards said that the engine made about thirty revolutions astern before the order to stop was given, that in the first quarter of a minute they would probably make ten to fifteen revolutions, the second quarter more, And the third quarter more still. It would seem probable therefore that they were actual ly going astern for not more than half a minute, and this is rather bores out by the entry in the engine room. log, "Port engines stop 11.47 astern full speed 11.47 ahead full speed 11.47 Allowing time to put the en gines astern, and allowing half a minute as the time the engines were going aster the whole time which elapsed from the moment the order hard a starboard was given until the ships were in collision bow to bow was probably not more than three quarters of a minute.

Now for the cruiser to go from the place at algned to her in the mail steamer's plan at the time of the mail, stearner's order hard a star- board to the place of collision would take nearly twice that time. In the plan, taking the Initial speed of the cruiser at to knots, the time taken is 1 minute ao seconds, and in a corrected plan, where the speed is taken as 9 knots, the time required is 1 minute 30 seconds. If the available tima is reduced by a half or searly a half, and I arrive at the conclusion on the evidence that it must be so reduced, it is clear that the cruiser could not possibly have.executed the man ceuvre attributed to her. She could not in the time available have traversed the distance and If the bearings given by the mall steamer are correct the distance between the cruiser and the mail steamer must have been much less than was estimated by the mail steamer, and the distance between the courses must also have been less. In the time available, more over, the mail steamer herself could not have got into the position assigned to her in the plas. We have no reliable evidence as to how far her head had turned from the time of the order bard a starboard until the first impact. No compais observation was taken on board the mall steamer, but whatever may have been the direction of the abip's head the time availab) was scarcely sufficient to allow the body of the

ship to get clear of the advance of her court. Then it may be observed as to the course of the mail iteamer, immediately before the order to hard a starboard was given, the la described as having been for about a minute and a half 'on a coupee about six degrass south of her

extra second officer, who was the officer of the watch, the third officer, two quartermasters, one at the wheel and ons near the wheelhouse, and two lookout men, one on the forecastle head, and one in the crow's nest, and the com- mander.

in the general statement in the official log book there is no mention of the commander having seen the junk, and having heard his evidence. I am satisfied that he did not see it. In his examination in chief he was pot asked whether he had seen it, and the learned Counsel for the defence sought to get in evidence of the junk by asking him what the officer of the watch had told him. In cross ex- amination he was asked about the junk and he said the officer of the watch pointed out its position, and the rest of his evidence with regard to the junk was mostly by way of argu- ment. I arrive at the conclusion that the officer of the watch did not succeed in bring ing the junk within the commander's actual observation, In drawing any conclusion from this, allowance must of course be made for the commander having come out of his own room into the darkness and requiring some time be fore he could see as clearly as one who had remained on deck. Each of the other six members of the ship's company made their statements with regard to the collision which were taken down and entered in the official log the day after the collision.

With an exception I shall refer to, in only two of these statements is there any reference to the junk, that is, in the statement of the officer of the watch and the statement of the lookout in the crow's nest. The extra second officer says:'

"I was officer of the watch from 8,0 p.m. to time, of collision and first saw the steamer at about 9.45 pm right.sbead (stern light) she gradually altered her bearing to the north and before altering our course from S. 64 W. to S, 68 W. air1.38 p.m. she was well on the starboard bow. When overhauling the steamer and when she was about three points on the starboard bow I observed a junk about two points on our starboard bow and I ordered the the helm to starboard In order to give the junk wider berth and 1 ordered the course to ba resumed on seeing everything well clear. Just as the Commander came on the bridge to te the vessel appeared to be altering her course to port and the Commander gave orders to starboard and to harda-starboard: in quick succession reversing the port engine, and soon after the vessel, struck us just forward of the bridge and I stopped the engines at Com mander's orders. was then sent to report on dama

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