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SHIPS COLLISION NEW PLAYGROUND GANDHI PERSISTS

INQUIRY.

ANKING-TANDA CRASH INVESTIGATED.

EXTRAORDINARY CONFUSION DUE TO FOG.

WIRELESS CROSS-TALK.

FOR KOWLOON,

GOVERNMENT ADOPTS K.R.A.

SUGGESTIONS.

VOTE NOW ASKED FOR.

A vote for $12.700 in regard to the provision of a Children's Play. ground in Salisbury Road, Kow- loon, is to come before the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council to-morrow.

IN FOLLY.

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE EXHORTATION.

GOVERNMENT TAKES FIRST STEP AT BARODA.

It is explained that a sum of DEPENDABLE TROOPS. $30,000 was Included in the 1920 Estimates for a playground in Kowloon and a scheme estimated at 58,000 was submitted in May.

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Poonia, Mar: 1 Rather significant action has been taken by the military au thorities in India, doubtless having some relation to the threatened commencement of

A collision which occurred in the early hours of the morning on February 26th, during dense

In June, his Excellency directed fog, between the ss. Anking and the s.8. Tanda was the that the matter be referred to the Playing Fields Committee, and in subject of a Marine Court of September, that the area should Inquiry held at the Harbourbe reserved for futurs Govern the civil disobedience campaign Office this morning. The wholement uses, but that in the mean-inspired by Gandhi to-morrow.

garden The 11th Sikh Regiment, of the morning was taken up with the time' it should be used as evidence of Capt. Ritchie, the and open space. The cost of lay-Indian Regular Army, is under master of the Anking, and he ing out the area was then estimat- orders to proceed to Baroda on March 17, to relieve the 4th Bom- was still in the box when he ed at $10,000.

bay. Grenadiers, of the Indian Court adjourned for the tiffin

Territorial Forces, recruited from interval.

Barodo.

Certain features were included to meet the suggestions of the Kowloon Residents' Association The Court was composed as fol-which increased the estimate to lows: The Hon. Commander G. F. $13,960.74 of which $1,250.74 was

retired Hole, R.N.,

(Harbour expended in December, 1929, Master), Lieut. Commander L. G. Addington, R.N. (H.M.S. Tamar).

(8.3. Capt. Stewart

Haining), Capt. D. Lefevre (s.s. Benreoch) and Capt.. A. M. Frame (8.3. Tal- ping).

Mr. F. C. Jenkin and Mr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed by Mr. G. G. N. Tinsoh. of Messrs. Johnson. Stokes and Master, appeared on behalf of Capt. Pilcher, of the Tanda, and Mr. E. Davidson, of Messrs. Hastings, Dennys and Bowley, was for Capt. R. Ritchie, of the Anking.

This work has been approved and as there is no sum provided in this year's Estimates, vote

($12,700) is requested.

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LATEST WATER

STATISTICS. -

FURTHER DECREASES IN SUPPLY.

in the island The total storage reservoira on the morning of Monday, 10th March, amounted to 872.86 million gallons, showing a decrease of 42.24 million gallons during the past week; the amount collected from streams being 4.47

At the outset, Mr. Jenkin - formed the Court that Capt. Pilcher was ill in bed yesterday and although he was present in Court, he did not feel well enough to give his evidence satisfactorily. He suggested that Capt. Pilcher be released until to-morrow morn-million gallons. ing.

Anking Captain's Story. This course was decided on and the case of the Anking was taken

first.

Capt. Ritchie, in the witness box, said that the Anking left Hongkong for Swatow at 5 p.m. on February 25th. From ten o'clock until 1.20 a.m. the weather was clear, but at the latter time for was encountered and he was call ed to the bridve by the Second Officer. At 1.32, the fog became very dense and the engines were put slow. The ship had previous- ly been travelling at about eleven knots.

Continuous Blasts.

The week's consumption amount. ed to 46.71 million gallons.

The total storage in the main- land reservoirs on the morning of Monday, 10th March, amounted to 383.88 million gallons, showing a decrease of 3.76 million gallons during the past week.

The week's consumption amounted to 24.89 million gallons, not including 2.15 million gallons supplied to: Water Boats at Lal Chi Kok

The yield from the Shing Mun River and streams during the week was 23.28 million gallons.

The

The 4th Bombay Grenadiers are to be disbanded.

On Gandhi's Route.

It is noteworthy that Baroda Is on the direct route of the march to the sea of Gandhi's civil dis abedience volunteers. The mem- bers of the 4th Bombay Grenadiers do not belong to the hereditary military classes.

message Meanwhile, a

from Ahmedabad, Gandhi's present headquarters, states that Gandhi has addressed a large meeting on the eve of the civil disobedience march.

his the.

of In

course Gandhi suggested that. of speech, co-operators in the campaign civil disobedience, in addition to manufacturing salt in defiance of the Salt Laws, should also remove salt without paying the required

duties thereon.

Others might co-operate by dis- tributing the salt thus "illegally" manufactured or removed without paying duty..

of

The courageous, he added, could refuse to pay their taxes.

Preserve the Peace.

the He exhorted

people Gujerat to continue the programme of marching to Jalalpur in order to recover salt from the sea, and thus uphold the doctrine of civil | disobedience.

Even he and his party are ar rested, he asked the people of India to preserve the peace and to carry out the instructions of the Working Committee of Con- gress.

He concluded that his supporters could not be defeated until they gave up-truth.

He prayed "for the success of

"Reception" Group.

A message from Surat states that a number of Congress workers have gone to Dandi in Jalalpur, in order to prepare for the arrival of the civil disobedients-Reuter.

Witness continued that between morning before breakfast. 1.33 and 1.34 he heard a fog signal, times given in the official log were when the ship's speed had been re-taken from those in the rough log,

four and five which was kept on desk. duced to between

According to the official log, wit knots. It was not very distinct hut was half a.point to a point on the ness heard a signal nt 1.32 a.m. at port bow, Witness altered his which time the engines of the. Ank- course one point to starboard, but ing were going.dead slow, but Mr. the battle beginning to morrow," he heard another blast, much more Jenkin pointed out that witness had distinct, which still appeared to be just told the Court that he (wit- ness) ordered the ship to go dead one point on the port bow.

slow at 1.32 am, and at 1.43 a.m. he heard a signal for the first time. Capt. Ritchie answered that he was in a hurry when he wrote up the log. He had just returned from the bridge. He had heard the Sec- say that the engines were put to slow at 1.32 and Both ships were frequently the ship was going slow when the sounding

blasts. fog

Three signal was heard about a minute minutes later the Anking's forward and a half later. Witness added quarter- that the official log was written by speed stopped and the master reported she had no steering him. way and that the ship's head was drifting to starboard. The Anking gave two long blasts, indicating she had stopped, and the other ship re- plied similarly, meaning she had also stopped.

The Anking was sounding con- tinuous blasts, which were started when the fog became thick at 1.20, A.m., and at 1.36 a.m. the engines ond Officer were stopped.

Gandhi starts his civil dis obedience campaign in India to- day, and it is safe to assume that the country is in a state of anxious expectancy. The Government of India has given no indication of the course of action it proposes to take in the event of Gandhi pro-. ceeding with his madness, which is, of course, inevitable.

Later.

Calcutta, Mar 11.

As far as witness knew, there was only one ship in the vicinity and he heard no other sounding.

saw the Gandhi, heading the pioneer band fog-signals. When ne lights of the Tanda looming up of civil resisters, has departed on about 60 feet away, appearing to the hundred mile march to the Gulf Capt. Ritchie went on to describe be heading S.S.W. he immediately of Cambay.-Reuter. how he saw the Tanda's lights rang the telegraph for "hard as

There are now thirty-five thou looming out of the fog between 30 tern," and that could be done in

course half a minute if the engineers were sand mill-hands on strike in the and 60 feet away, on a

Titaghur area. Several policemen roughly estimated to be south-west, smart.

Witness said at the time and strikers, were injured in a at a speed of two or three knots.

of the collision, the Anking fracas which occurred following an The Collision.

had Do headway but the attempt by the strikers to storm Witness immediately rang the Tanda was going at about two the police station-Reuter, telegraph for full speed astern, this or three knots, with a swing to having the effect of swinging the starboard. In such a collision as head further to starboard. The the one concerned, it was witness' collision occurred at 1.40 am., the opinion that the Tanda could not Tanda 'coming across the Anking's have. been damaged more than a bows at a slight angle and appear-bent plate. ing to swing to port, striking the Anking a glancing blow just in front of the bridge, while the An-

Five Messages.

Mr. Jenkin said that from 1.44 king's bow struck the side of the to 2.15, no less than five messages Tanda.

were sent out by the Tanda to find Witness added that the Anking out the name of the other ship in had sternway on by that time and collision. At 2.16 am, a Japanese drew back immediately on the im-ship called the Sungshan Maru pact.

answered, saying that she thought He expressed the opinion that if she had been in collision at 2.16 the Anking had been going ahead and between that time and 2.59 she would have holed the Tanda many messages passed between the The Tanda disappeared in the fog Sungshan Maru and the Tanda, and signalled by blasts that she each inquiring about the plight of had stopped. She then signalled the other.

Amazing Reply.

NEW PRESIDENT OF REICHSBANK.

THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT NOMINEE ELECTED.

Berlin, Mar. 11. Dr. Luther, former Chancellor of the Reichstag, has been unani- mously elected President of the Reichsbank in succession" to Dr. Schacht, who resigned before his contract expired because of his op- position to the Young Plan amended at the Hague Conference. Dr. Luther was the nominee of the Government-Reuter,

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with one long blast that she was under way again and witness con.. cluded that ahe did not require

London, Mar. 11. At 8.43 a.m. the Tanda happen- assistance..At the time, witnessed to intercept a message from the

Their Majestics the King and said, he did not know the name of owner to the Anking. At 8.59, the Queen visited the London Hospital the other ship..

Tanda sent out a message to the this afternoon and made a lengthy Cross-examined by Mr. Jenkin, Anking "Were you in collision at tour of the wards and the operat witness agreed that it was a mat Pedro Blancho?", but received the ing theatres.

of the Tanda looming up.

....

They had

many

ter of only minutes between the amazing reply "Sorry. Know ho- little talks with the patients. time he heard the first fog signal thing about It." and the time he sighted the lights Repeated attempts were then In answer to Mr. Jenkin, Capt. again made by the Tanda to com- Ritchie said he could not rememmunicate with the Anking, but ber what time the log was written without result..

The case is proceeding. up, but it must have been the next

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