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Intimation.

Wm.

Powell,

Ld.,

ALEXANDRA

BUILDINGS.

BATHING

COSTUMES.

Combinations

with Skirt.

NAVY & RED

TWILL

$4.50 to $5.50.

BATHING

COSTUMES.

NAVY SERGE

trimmed white,

$4.75 to $11.00.

BATHING

COSTUMES.

WM. POWELL, LTD.,

Des Voeux Road,

The and hand

28, Queen's Road,

** HONGKONG.

song 6th May 1908.

THE

THE

Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY MAY 8 1908.

HE Undersigned bave received instructions

to sell by de PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR ACCOUNT: OF THE CONCERNED, TO-MORROW,

the 9th May, 1008, at 7.30 PM at their Salon Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, corner of Ice House Street, SUNDRY VALUABLE. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

The "

Tiger

Disaster. Nicholson, whose recital of events must have

"SUICIDAL COURSE

JURY PRAISE RESCUE WORK OF THE FLERT.

been much longer than their actual happening, continued I then said to the navigating officer, "Stop whan the ship is, stopped ::: Ex- plaluing that although he had given the precautionary order, "Away all boats," it sim,

be tragedy initiated to the darkonsa was completed in the darkness. Not a single searchlight was turned on until the Tiger, dis covered practically under the Berwick's bows, was cut right in halves. The captain saw the two parts floating past his stern-the bow- part ́of the Tiger story in theʻair.

A vivid account of the caval disaster off Stply meant that they were to be lowered to the Waters edge to be loosed whed the great Catherine's Point, was given by officers of the cruiser came to a staudetili; Berwick and the Tiger at an inquest yesterday. on the body of the man who died after belos rescued, says the Morning Leader of 7th April. The only surviving officer of the Tiger, En ginser Lieut. Viening, frankly admitted there must have been an error of judgment as to her course and Capt. Nicholson, of the Ber DOUBLE and SINGLE IRON DED STEADS and MATTRESSES, TEAK Wick, declared-that-it-was suicidal for a de WOOD WARDROBES with BEVELLEDstroyer to can bitween ships steamingling GLASS, OVERMANTELS with BEVELLED ahead" Capt. Nicholson realised what must GLASS, SIDEBOARD and DINNER be the fate of the Tiger immediately he caught WAGGONS with BEVELLED GLASS, MARBLE TOP WASHSTANDS, DOUBLE sight of tier, and had actually given orders to TEAKWOOD, WARDROBES with BE-get the boats out and blow the siren before the this exciting evidence, was picked up, il tran

Comprising÷2

VELLED GLASS, TAPESTRY.COVERED collision occurred, DRAWING KOOM SUITE, GLASS, CROCKERY and E.P. WARE, TIENTSIN CARPETS and RUGS, COOKING STOVE and UTENSILS, &c., &c.;

ALSO.."

ONE UPRIGHT'IRON GRAND PIANO by The Robinson Piano Co., ONE VICTOR GRAMOPHONE and 38 RECORDS;

AND

ONE AMERICAN BILLIARD TABLE and ACCESSORIES COMPLETE (in Good Order and Condition)...

Catalogues will be issued.

· TERMS~As Usual."

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneer.

Longkong, stb May, 1908.

The jury expressed no opivian as to the cause of the collision, but paid a tribute to the fleet for its prompt action to prevent greater less of life....

- DISASTER DESCRIBED.

Portsmouth, April 6..

To what is known of the disaster Tittle was added at the coroner's inquest held on Torpedo instructor Newman's body at Hastar to-day But we had for the first time the Berwick's account of the catastrophe.

Her captain, W. C. M. Nicholson, keen- featured, with wind-tanned face, went into the witness chair, "and, aided by direct speech and [476 clear-lined diagram, soon conveyed to Mr. Edgar Goble and-the jury a sketch of the disaster as viewed from the roof of the chart- houre of the colliding cruiser. "It was generous in tone, critical as it necessarily became ait ' you think, sir, you are proceeded. asking me to give evidence that ought to come For account of the Estate of the late Captain from the other ship?" he askid once, and

GEO. PARKER,

PUBLIC AUCTION,

HE Undersigned have received instructions THE

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,"

TO-MORROW,

"

the oth: May, 1908, at 1.3 P.M., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, corner of Ice House Street, SUNDRY

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

Comprising:-

DOUBLE IRON BEDSTEAD and BED. DING, TEAKWOOD WARDROBES with LASS, SIDEBOARD, LADY'S DESK, &c.

ALSO..

ONE SEXTANT, BINOCULARS, TRA-

VELLING BAGS and TRUNKS, MANDO

LINE and BANJO,

Catalogues will be issued. TERMS AS unual..

HUGHES & HOUGH,, Auctioneers,

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Hongkong, 7th May, 1908.

Notices of Firms

HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF &

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Then the anarchlights of the deet, shrouded during the evolution, were turned on, boats were lowered, the Forte and several destroyers. remained on the scene till daylight, Poor Newman, whose fate had been forgotten during

phed, exhausted, and died on the way back to Spithead on the Gladiator,

A "SUICIDAL" ACT.

it was left to a juryman to hit the very point that everybody has wanted to know. When Lieut Strutt had confirmed his chief's entbrali. ipg sarrative bo was asked through the foreman. of the jury if it was usual for torpedo boate to rua between ships steaming line ahead at two cables distanco apart (243 yards)?

"should say it was got," declared the licuenant emphatically.

Capt. Nicholson jumped to his feet with the remark: "It is so highly dangerous that every officer in command would do his utmost dat to do it."

The Foreman: la it done?-Capt. Nicholson : I dare say there has been a record of a man doing it, le ip a suicidal thing to do-you would not give a man an order to blow us his own boat.

Have you ever know it done?—I don't

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Still, is almost monosyllabic replies at first, and fleet has been under way of a destroyer trying something approaching speeches when he disto get between the ships. There may be cases covered how interested the jury was, Capt. ichalsco gave, when pieced together, what proved to be a vivid story of the disaster.

JURY'S DISCOMFORT, Half a dozzi shivering individuals, including elegraph messengers, constituted the great! British public in the uncomfortable instruction room where the inquiry was held, a juryman's cap wedged in a broken window pane and a reporter's cont-stuffed in a hole in the wall to keep put some of the cutting draughts that uocloiable, windows failed to shield. The coroner at the start had formally complained

of the destroyers seeking to head off a fleet. But a torpedo is just. as effective against one bosmas another; it is the reverse when a de- ''stroyer pastes a ship stem on.

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PERHAPS THEY DID NOT KNOW. There would be no object at all in the Tiger passing through the Fleet lines and, indeed, Capt. Nicholson objected to the use of the A FRESH supply of touch and English words "trying to pass through the lines," be- cause perhaps, ho said sympathetically, the poor fellows did not know that they were pass- ing in front of the cruiser,"

Sur, con 'Hall, of the Gladiator, Having def

of the lack of courtesy of the Admiralty in notclared that the boat and ship's crews, did their even supplying him with a draft of the evidence on which the inquiry was to turp, so the dis comforts of other people in the room set up a sort of kindred feeling, and following the ex- ample of Engineer-Lieut. Vinning, they put on overcoats, and even headgear.

CUT LIKE A RAM.

:

Capt. Nicholso was first questioned on the DURING my absence from the Colony consuuction of his vessel, with her four-inch steel plate coming down to about 1 in. at the But she would not be capable of stem. giving a more catting blow," he said, "than other ships, all of which were fitted with a ram until quite recently,"

By Order,

Secretary,

1477

EDWARD OSBORNE,

Hongkong, 6th May, 1908.

NOTICE:

The witness narrated how the six ships of the Home Fleet went out from Spithead last |--Thursday-afternoon, knowing- they were to be

attacked by the torpedo di rantrere de tween there and Portland. The destroyers de livered their first attack at quarter past seven, when it was just drawing, to darkness.

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He imagined then that the destroyers would cupied by the National Bank of China, Ld.).

have ascertained that the feat was steaming J. L. VAN HOUTEN,

lise ahead: knowledge, which of course should. Agent, Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij. have been of advantage to them an hour later, [479] when the faint attack occurred. The evidence, Hongkong, 6th May, 1908.

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night. In Capt. Nicholson's opinion it was dark, but clear, and without raip, and he de- clared that at the time of the disaster he could see St. Catherine's light-placed by Navigat ag-Lieul, Strutt at 18 miles' distance.

"Did the Tiger come into collision with the Berwick or the Berwick with the Tiger?" asked Mr. Gable; pointedly.

་

"The two must have met, or there would

have been no accident," replied the captain, who, without waiting for the completion of the coroner's supplementary question, added: " think I might put it that the Berwick rammed the Tiger."

.COLLISION INEVITABLE,

best to restore PO. Newman to consciousness after he had been picked up, Logiseer Lieut.' Vipping, the sole surviving officer of the ill- fated Tiger, told his story. Nothing wont wrong, he declsted, with the machinery, and at the time of the collision they were travelling at about 20 knots. Linut,-Commander Middleton was in charge of the course.

"Was a torpedo fired ?" asked the coroner.

No torpedoes" were fired that night; but two-or-three-minutes-before the collision we fired a Very light to indicate that we Thir had, torpedoed the Prince George. ship was passing away on our port quarter, when suddenly I caught sight of the ram of the Berwick-about zoft off. It appeared to be coming-towards-us-at-about_to_kaotsi_A

moment later the rat cut right through the Tiger just in front of me, between the middle. and the aft funsel.

"Up to that time, all the machinery had worked-smoothly. and well, and all the orders given by the commander were carried out. After firing the Vory light at the Prince George the battleship passed away as the port quarter, and the figer advanced to the attack on the Berwick, meeting her as sho was coming up.". "MUST HAVE been an Error" The Coroger: You can give no reason why the course was altered?--Yo, except that it must have been an error of judgment.

Mr. Vinning, describing the scene at the time of the collision and the rescue operations, expressed every satisfaction at the way the

crew bad behaved.

The jury found that the cause of the death of Torpedo Instructor Newman was drowning by the sinking of H.M.S. Tiger.

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We cannot come to any decision as to the two ships colliding, (added the jury); but we B/CYCLES and express admiration for the prompt action taken by the fleet at the moment of the accident and our admiration of the coolness and bravery shown by the officers and crew of the Tiger,

"Hastily drawing a diagram for the jury as he: spoke, Capt. Nichotion explained that while the Berwick was steaming at ten knots he saw the Tiger coming towards him'at a very much faster speed than he was travelling-going abead of the Berwick. He had previously seen a Very light go up, indicating that a destroyer was claiming a hit, and he had seen something C fit might have been light escaping from a badly. closed hatchway) that made him suspect that there was a torpedo boat hovering about; but when the mass "loomed" in the darkness, it was only from 60 to 100, yards from the craiser. He said to himself, "Good Lord! there is one under our bows," and immediately realised that a collision was inevitabo.

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And then the crash came. Capt. Nichols son said he felt the impact distinctly's Lieut. Strutt only slightly, magn

NE PRECAUTIONARY ORDERS, Having explained to the jury that the sound ing of the three blasts was an indication to the fleet that he was going aster, and that the signal was made to avoid collision with the Gladiátor and cruisers followls

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