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Tonders for the construction of

a Twin Scrow Sea-going Launch for the Port of Moulmein.

Lump sum tenders are invited for the construction of a Twin. LARGE ROOM in the Morning Post Scrow Soà-going Launch for the Building, suitable for office or atock-Port of Moulmein, delivered at room. Apply Manager, South China Moulmein, to plan and apreifica- Morning Post.

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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1935.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD.

Notice to Shareholders.

Tho Sixty-sixth Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on Friday, the 29th | March, 1935, at Noon, for the pur-! pose of receiving the Report of the' General Managers, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December 1934.

The Share Register and Transfer: Booka will be closed from the 15th:

AT THE

HONGKONG HOTEL

ON

SATURDAY

9th

MARCH

to the 29th March, 1935, both days SPECIAL DINNER DANCE

Inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,'

LIMITED. General Managers, The Hongkong Fire Insurance Co..

Ltd.

Hongkong, 8th March, 1935.

'DREWERS BOOKSHOP.

I have pleasure in informing The estimated cost of the launch the public that I have this day acquired the business known, ne Brower's The Bookshop Limited. and will continue to trade at the original address-China Building. 10 Fodder Street, Hongkong-Peat Office Box No. 12-under the style of BREWERS BOOKSHOP.

TO LET Furnished European Dwell. ing HOUSE, No. 11, Mountain View,Is R. 2,10,000. The Peak, Six bedroom with drawing,

may piense Dining, Billiard and Drying rooms, addressed to the Port Oficer,

quarters. Suitable for bachelor Mess. Reasonable rent will Moulmein, in a double cover, the and be considered. Available for occupa inner cover being sealed Llon from 1st April, 1935. Apply to marked on the outside "Tender Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co., P. & Q. for construction of a Twin Screw Building.

Sea-going Launch."

CHINA TO ABANDON SILVER?

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to

Tenders will be received up 1 p.m. of the 1st August, 1935.

Time of delivery in Moulmein from date of receipt of letter Intimating acceptance of Tender to be stated in Tender.

than those of the United States, elining

CHARLES E. WATSON,

Proprietor. Hongkong, March 1st, 1935.

DO YOU KNOW

Benevolent Society

the that

On completion of vessel, an in-needs three dollars an hour to experiment will be do Its work for the needy of the and because of this, reliable obser-carried out at cost and expense of Colony? vers anticipate. that the yuan (the successful tenderer,

is more likely to be linked to ster- The undersigned does not bind

lling rather than the dollar.

Regarding the rate at which it'

is likely to be linked, it is pointed

himself to accept the lowest or any tender or assign reasons for

that the United Press report that the rejection of any tender.

the rate "should not be higher than 1/6" has not beon denied.

Authoritative sources 11880rt that officials consider that de valuation of the present silver dollar, or any other inflationary panacens, are utterly impracticable

G. T. D. WELLS.

· Moulmelo,

Port Offleer,

Moulmein.

The 1st February, 1935.

In China, on account of the fact CHINA ENTERTAINMENT AND

that the Government owne only an

infinitesimal fraction

nation's silver stocks,

of the

Therefore a departure from the

LAND INVESTMENT CO. LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

silver standard would apparently that the FIFTH ORDINARY occur on the exit of the exlating (GENERAL MEETING OF SHARE- economic impasse.

It is also pointed out that a managed currency would not be liable to fluctuations, to which Д allver currency is subjected by the erratic movements of the world silver price.-United Press.

TOKYO LEANINGS

Tokyo, Mar. 7,

5th

HOLDERS will be held at the Registered Omce, of the Company. King's Theatre Building. floor, on Wednesday, the 20th day of March 1935, at 12 o'clock noon to receive the Directors' Report, and Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1934, to elect Auditors and Directors and to transset such other business s may be properly transacted at an Ordinary General Meeting of the Company.

A general survey of the banking opinion here to-day indicates that the majority are in favour of keep Ing the Yen tled to sterling if possible, on the grounds that

And Notice is further hereby British monetary policies, in the given that the Register and long run, will prove to be less Transfer Books of the Company

that of the experimental than

will be closed from the 12th to the United States.

China's silver situation is not 20th day of March, 1935, bolh daya visibly affecting the exchange altus-inclusive, tion here, it appears that many observers believe that a general | overhauling of China's monetary system might prove to be a better move toward rehabilitation than actual financial assistance.-United Press,

LIANG CHI HAO.

Managing Director.

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

Notice is hereby given that the MINISTER'S STATEMENT

Forly-sixth Ordinary Yearly Meet- Shanghai, Mar, 8. ing will be held at the Company's The Chinese Minister of Finance, Offices, P. & O. Building, on Dr. H..H. King, to-day issued a Wednesday, 13th March, 1935, at statement concerning Chinese 11 a.m. for the purpose of present- monetary changes.

ing the Report of the Directors

and

The statement says that while the together with a Statement of Nanking Government is preparing Accounta to 31st December 1934 adequate measures to deal with the

electing Directors financial situation, the current re-pl ports regarding the Government's Auditors. Intentions are both premature and ill-informed.-United Preis.

TENSION GROWS IN BALKANS

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to direct gunfire or landing parties by those land-marks-Reuter.

BRITISH PRECAUTION

London, Mar. 7.

In view of the present situation in Greco, it has been thought desirable to send a British_war- ship to Grook waters, and H.M.S. Royal Soveregin arrived.at Phalor- on Bay off Athena at noon to-day.

British Wireless

FOREIGN INTERESTS

Athena, March 7, Besides the Britisk warship, Royal Sovereign, expected

nt

Phaleron Bay to day, the French

cruiser Verdun has arrived at

The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 2nd March to 13th March, 1935, both days inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.

By Order of

The Board of Directors, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD..

Agents. Hongkong, 21st February, 1935.

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The market was weak nt 11.00 a.m., there being virtually no seliers of exchange.

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LOCAL COLLISION SEQUEL

CHIAN LEE

· BLAMED

sance of the Chian Lee" on his part [bow, that it was a norman-like and. customary manoeuvre which the Chian Leo ought to... havo. expected from any vessel on that course enter- ing the contral fairway, and that, «n»- til about 7.54 pan, when he gave the order hard-a-starboard, he had followed the same course as to both spced and heim that he would - have followed if no other ship had been there,

WITNESSES DIFFER

It is an unfortunate feature of this case that the accounts given by tho witnesses for the Michael Jobsen and the witness for the Chian Loe differ The complete, exoneration of irreconcilably on almost every the Master of the a.. Michael material point as to course, speed, and sound signals, up to the moment of Jebsen, Capt. T. Thaysen, from collision, and also as to the place blame for the ship's col of collision and the angle of impact. lision with the s.s. Chlan Lee There is also a variation of seven

The judgment places the whole blame upon the Chinn Leo which was under the command of Capt. Kuichi Ishi.

to

on August 7, in Hongkong Har-minuter in the time recorded by the two vessels, the time of the Chinn Lee bour was a feature of the judg belux Reven minutes in advance of ment delivered by Mr. A. D. A. the time of the Michael Jeben, which MacGregor, Chief Justlee, at I have adopted throughout this judg- the Supreme Court this morning.ment for purposes of convenience.

The action was one in which valves on me the unpleasant Juty of In the clrcumstances thora de- Rhederal M. Jebsen Aktieselskab, deciding on which alde the balance of owners of the Michael Jobsen, truth lies. I have come to the con- rought $100,000 damages from the clusion that I cannot accept the story. Ching Kee Steam Navigation Co., told by the oflears of the Chlan Lee,, Ltd., owners of the Chian Lee who Arstly beenuse the testimony of the counter cinimed for $70,000 dam- Independent witness Alvinuissen dees

not ear out their account either 그 ages.

to reduction of speed or alleration of course, and, secondly, for the reason that the evidence of the Marine Surveyor, Mr. Knugenhjelm, as the angle of impact of the two vessels In giving Judgment, his Lordship and the damage caused to the site nf Inid on August 7, 1914, the

the Chian Lee by the forward tripping Michael Jebsen was on a voyage from palm of the port anchor of the Michnel Bangkok to Hongkong. She entered Jchsen, is to my mind conclusive the harbour by Sulphur Channel, clear- į ngainst the contention of the Captain Ing Green Islanil about 7.48 p.m. The of the Chian Lee that the angle of weather was clear and fue, and al-impact was about 80 degrees

from though there was no moon, visibility, the bows of the Chlan Lee. was good. Through Sulphur Channel | On the voyages which admittedly the Michael Jebsen was steaming full these two vessels were engaged in and speed ahead but at 7.48 pm. her speed on the courses which they were follow- was reduced to half, or rather more ing. the Chlan Lee having the than seven knots and when she rounded Michael Jebsen on her starboard Blue, Green Island her course was set

on wan, by Article 10 of the Regulations 22 degrees true, a course which would for Proventing Collisions at Sea, un- bring her slightly to the west of the der a duty to keep out of the way of northern fairway busy. Just after the Michael Jebnen, and equally un- setting that course, the Captain of the der Article 21 the Michael Jebsen was Michael Jebsen observed the lights obliged to keep her course and speed. of a vessel about five or six points on his port bow and about a mile distant. That vessel, the .. Chlan Lee, ap.) peared to die proceeding at consider. able speed.

PRECAUTION TAKEN

PRUDENT SLOWING DOWN

The first question which I have therefore to decide is whether the Michael Jebsen when at 7.50 pan, she stopped her engines after giving n warning blast to the Chlan Leo com- At 7.00 pan., Captain Thaysen sound mitted a breach of her duty under ed one long warning blast of slx Article 21. I have put that question seconda' duration. He then stopped his specifically to my nautical assCKIOT engines to take way of his vessel, and he has expressed the opinion precautionary Hicksure which

he that having regard to the fact that states he invariably takes about that the Michael Jebsen was approaching point when entering the harbour by the Central Fairway it was prudent night.

and seamaalike for her to reduce her When the Michael Jebsen sounded speed as in fact she did, and that the one long blast, her officers heard from Chian Lee as giving-way vessel oùglit the Chian Lee ane short blant, follow- to have expected the Michael Jebsen ed by one very long blast of fteen to bo proceeding at some such speed to twenty seconds' duration, a blast on in fact she was making. which they attributed to the jamming There remains for consideration the of her whistle, and shortly afterwards bearlag which the note to Article 21 two short lasts. They reid this has on the facts of this case. The signal as an indication that the Chian duty of the Michael Jobson la clear, Lee was altering her course to port. So long as thore is a possibility of The Michael Jebsen at 7.62 p.m. the Chian Lee clearing ber she must gave a further signal of one short stand on, and she cannot be held in blast and altered her course slightly fault for keeping her course and spood to starboard. The witnesses from the though she could have avoided collis- Michael Jebsen are omphatic that ion by an alterntion of either. there was no answer to that signal. Iam aatialed that the Captain and The Chinn Lee appeared to be malu- officers of the Michael Jebsen kept u taining her course and speed and as careful watch on the Chian Lee and collision seemed to be imminent the endeavoured, at what they considered Michael Jebsen, immediately after her the right moment, to do what they course was altered slightly to star thought best to avoid a collision. beard, went hard-starboard. Her Lord Corell, P., in The Ranza (79 engines were put full astern and LJ.P. 21) defined the duty of the signal of three short blasts was given stand-on ship as being that she must at 7.64 p.m. Two minutes later, the wait until the other ship cannot avoid Vessels were in collision, the stem of the collision and then she must act. the Michael Jebsen striking the Chlan can find nothing la the action taken Lee about amidships, an angle of by the Michael Jebsen in the agony about 80 degrees from her stern. of collision that convinces me that she The Captain of the Michael Jobsen was in any way responsible for the estimates the speed of the Chinn Lee collision.

at the moment of impact at about nix I find that the Chian Lee was solely knots,

to blame for this collision, and In each Captain Thaysen has deposed that of these consolidated actions I enter the stopping of his engines at 7.60 judgment accordingly with p.m. had nothing to do with the pre-against the owners of the China Lee.

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