COLLISION AT SEA
JAPANESE SHIP BLAMED FOR MISHAP COURT DECISION REVERSED Reed. noon. LONDON, Tuesday. The Appeal Court has allowed the Orient Steamship Company’s appeal against Mr. Justice Hill’s judgment of June 12, 192 k, that the liner Otranto and the steamer Kitano Maru were equally responsible for a collision on August 11, 1925. The court, gave judgment that the Kitano Maru alone was to blame. The Japanese sliio Kitano Maru and the Orient liner Otranto collided in the North Sea ia August. 1928. Both vessels had taken the wrong helm, and both failed to take timely engine action. The Admiralty Court decided that both ships were equally to blame. The judge described the evidence of the Kitano Maru witnesses as a concoction to deceive the court.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 883, 29 January 1930, Page 9
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127COLLISION AT SEA Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 883, 29 January 1930, Page 9
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