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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13,

A UNIQUE APPEAL.

ECHO OF SYDNEY HARBOUR COLLISION.

there, the

1930.

the

this collision, or the crossing rule?veyors, with stars of radiating lines wan one of the original questions in the to buildings and leading points on the cage, and the crossing rule, which the shore in the photagraphs, and bear utgoing motorship Crown CityIngs, taken in launches and finished in invoked, would, of course, put the offices, to delermine Grat of St. Albans under the duty (being precino place of the Orungal when the "green" to the Crown City's port) to photographs. were taken, for, na a of the Supreme Court wald. While Mr. Einstein is in London keep out of the way. The coiliston Judge the Privy Council has been considerene in the afternoon of Oct. 22, 1927.

was a daylight collision, shortly before "Tell me where the Orungal was,

and I will tell you all the rest!" ime relativity questions, with datum-

The steamer Orungal preceded the Everything was worked gut la co- paint, co-ordinates, time-factors and Crown City going down, and had a ordinates east or west and north or Photographs by the dozen in

paanonger on board who was busy south of the datum point of the collision suit which promises to be

with a camera.

Ile took three Observatory, and eight calculations one of the must remarkable heard for "Anapa" of the following Crown City brought the camera (and the Orungal) a long time in London, says the

efore, immediately, and at the time within a field of between 5801t. and Liverpool Journal of Commerce.

of the collision. The "timo of 980ft of Bradley Hend. Then they The Admiralty Court frequently makes its way between piles of photo-collision" is not precisely a point of got to work on the significance of the Court time, for after the rst smash the pictures, and the Supreme graphs, as amid sandbanks, but they St. Albans bows with the port sidorem to have concluded that the 10 Kenerally photographs of the of the Crown City, abreast the Crown City was in the St. Albana after-effects of a collision and the

foremant-the vrasols parted and water, and the collision was not at lecun. This case is exceptional, in that the photographs would seem wung together again, the port bow all where the trial judge thought, and actually to be photographs of the of the St Albans with the port sido they said the St. Albans was not at all to blame or the Crown City had collision itself. The case is unique of the Crown City lower down,

To go to the root of the matter at not proved her case against her. in that sense, and it is peculiar in

Thereupon tho United States this further respect that, while judges once, on the St Albans submission, tend to look askance on photographs the Orungal and another ship passing Shipping Board-and all the photo- with a cold, critical and doubtfulut crowded her in towards the graphs and calculations came to the eye, thene photographs have assumed hallows beneath the head, and, while Privy Council, and the Privy Council Crown City, eutling a has at fascinated under their spell steadily increasing importance in three successive trials, until the Privy corner, hit her in the St. Albany' own ever since.

water. On the harrow channel The St. Albans, of Landon, in 4,119 Council bun devoted a week, it might

to the tons gross and 307ft. long; the Crown almost be anid, to looking at nothing theory, that would be fatal

Crown City, and, if there were no City, 6,428 tons gross and 420ft, over the case is all. Mr. C. R. Dunlop, K.C., was for Lord Merrivale, as Preskient of the other considerations,

B. B. Stenham, Instrusted by Messrs. Admiralty Court, presided over the decided by the mid-channel line. The the appealing Shipping Board, with Privy Connell, the other judges being trial judge found the collision was

Cooper and Co. and Mr. Lords Athi and Russell (both with far out from the head, and condemned Thos. an old experivors of collision cases in the St. Albans as alone to blame. The Norman Racburn, K.C., and Mr. H. W. it is worth Crown City put the place of cullision Willmer for the St. Albans, instructed the Appeal Court), and

1,000ft, south by west of Bradley by Messrs. W. A. Crump and Som, nd-ling

The appellants complained of tho respondents-the London steamer St. end, or 880ft. south-east by south

admission of further evidence at the would of where the St. Albans said it was. Alban--was prepared $475

Now one may return to the photo-appeal, and it was emphnaised that have been conducted by the new

Judge in effect the trini fudge said he could not Admiralty judge. Mr. Justler Lang-graphs. The trial

He examined rely with confidence" on the photo- ton, but for his elevation to the bench, said "take 'em away."

The Privy Council-about which them, but sald be preferred to rely graphs. The photographs had been there is always a domnestie look, with on the witnesses, the evidence before powerfully enlarged, and things were suggested were everybody on the same four level him being mataly on paper from askid to have emerged in the enlarge.

drawing-previous Court of Marine inquiry, the ment which it was he worn the aspect of room party, with everybody judgeships and their crews having log altogether doubtful. It was insistre <372 Their respective that the place of the St. Albana should nautical assISSUTA, COUŻel and sollet-Rune Fors absorbed in the study of photo. espes. He remarked he regretted have been under the Cream City's

will be more in

their absence, and that he had not stern, and the appellants said the it graph albums,

The Crown City was keeping her own seen the whites of their eyer structive to leave the Privy Council.

went in the starboard side of mid-channel. with its photographs, for à tomont St. Albans appealed unti

Originally. Indistinel. af Sydney Supreme Court of New South Wales, to look at the scenery

and the Supreme Court dincided to Harbour

have the photographs (which Question of Rules,

themselves were not new evidence), The St. Albw, coming in from am also inore elaborate interpreta

a course S. W. by S. tions of them by more surveyor, Japan. on roughly would have Bradley Head on her starboard band, and would round

This let in a wealth of calculation. that they were rarely relied on in the under part helm and s turning in pass outgoing vessels port to part. Thers were the calculations of the Admiralty Court. Ilers they wero Outgoing vessels are going westerly.surveyors

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Гог the

Wealth of Calculations,

in The photographs on which so in- calculation was posing a structure afterwards imposed were declared to be originally "indistinct," and the Court was reminded that photographs were so deceptive and liable to error

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