WAR BREWING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 21, 15 June 1914, Page 5

WAR BREWING

A CRITICAL BITUATaOW. "JIB

' GREEK ELEMENT MUST Ul3 MOttfl £y Cable—Press Association— Received 14, 6 p.m. - 'i§9P London, Reutor's is indirectly advised ,mßm Constantinople that the Porto it mb|| mined to remove the Greek element &f|fl nil strategic pointa in the Constantinople and the DardanellMt fiom the Smyrna littoral. , V.mß The situation at Asvali, opposite MJnuH lene, is critical. Thirty Greeks are' surrounded by Moslem*. 'lflHj fugees who, with the. Turks, att<rap(]jjßn | to enter, were repulsed. »"f '■nHß FIFTY THOUSAND FUGITIVES. "'*H THEIR REINSTATEMENT DEMAXDED. ( Received 14, 5 p.m. <ijj9 Athens, June Tt is somi-oQlcially stated luat thousand Greeks in Asia Minor, 'vaalfl had been despoiled of thoir have arrived at Clubs and Mity£S| Fifty thousand other Greek futftfvSGg have-reached the shorts of Asia Greece demands their reinstatemama without further molestation. ' '.tfjH The Greek Government, after ing financiers, has ordered the dbstajffjjl o- the Bourse, owing to the uncertaiaty/§| of the situation. , Router's Alexandria correspondent ■fll ports that all Greek sailors of thft WtfjW class here have been ordered to the colors. .CyJH

was not reasonable to gay that ln.ilM™ exercise of their discretion they jgjmNß suddenly become careless and criminals. As to Donaldson, not be ettui that he had neglected sot the signal against toe ftpproaoihlhSi train. rr -Jg The Coroner: Ob, yes. DonaldM&i olmj'ed tho regulations strictly ia ftyH respect, eo that }>oint is not' 1 in m 8 mind. The question of putting oat Urn Bignals is also settled by the evldeapffi Air Martin: Then we come fcp'-sE§l real crux. Ought he to have tested Ufj signals, in;view of the fact that Sift must depend on his back light to Icnstfi when the signal was correct! ShWJ«y he also 'have tested 'liia signals more fiSt qaeritly than t.e didf "vS^H The Ooroncr; I itJiink front this'era quiry that he should have looked attiij back light when a train wo-s Mr' Martin also pointed out that arfStii of the witnesses had experienced Snag an extraordinary contraction as to a signal to pull off. V '-l'vlH Xta Coroner: Yes, we have Jixl d)j£S dcncc that Bix inches should not wSj® been sufficient to pull it ofT on that night there could nat nave-baSil a greater contraction thsj. 6% inoIWBS j XKe Coroner went on to 1 remark thttftj I the .porter's duty was aitao to fligimls for external mishaps, auoti- tuPffll out He fouling the wire, or the risk' w-h1 Borne ill-dkjposed person putting HfjSS® sleeper on it, necessitating vigilance st'/li all times. > .' '■ Mr Martin: JTes, ibuit there wjju t undeSnable difference in vigilance whicSMw the jury, must! appreciate and and I submit -that his act was not auorax as to justify a charge of culpable once. With regard to Csrulckdiank, l&.Sii Martin contended that in waking the £sa slight alteration hie acted ihonestin l the best of his jiulgmettt with the wm|l teriail at his hand, and pointed out "'frrjjj the signal worked property afterward ; £f from November 27 until the night the accident. It was, he admitted) fortunate that he had out in a enalD* wheel, ibut was that,'under the oilmanstances, such culpable neglect ak wfJuttyjVi justify a serious charge toeing .prefeiwdv> against liunf ue could not itavo iicipated the excessive oontractiOn afw that Avire. He (Mr Martin) tlmt there was not that: culpabilit#;* tfliown in. the discretion he which would justify His Worship asTiR jury to declare against him. . Addressing the Court on behalf ofjtla'V Railway Department, iir Mays aaia ttafci&t as far as the Department was the question was nnrrowea down .whether, by its management and Tegular: tiona, the Department had imposed tuKnt/Vafll its servants more than tliev could caroM out m the interests of puWio safofib> ' ' The evidence had established the that iJhey had employed experienced, eep-Sl able, well-trained men. It tod nutted that Donaldson knew his duties \?ry thoroughly, and the hours oTdWSi?® were not such as prevented officer® frooQi' carrying out their duties with t'on. The regulations were easily dorstood, and were sufficient "for' public safety, which had been 'dewiyborne out by the evidence submitted. The quoting of statistics proved con- * chiaively, moreover, that everything in vS New Zealand wm on a wcl!-run andper . 4 "' l fcctly safe "basis. TNia raanMroin©iit..'.&J time-table, safety applmnce®, and in* ' ' struetions all bore witness to the'high standard of tlhe service, *wfoilo the*: fact that since 1905 fob© Department hsjL'Vi j carried passengers without ' '< loss of life stood alone && ft cTwtt monial. "Your Worship w3l added Mr Mays, "that there has beoji\f nsomo form of outcry about tiho relief 1 ' measures taken or not taken by the Da- ■s' partment respecting the accent. I. j fool, therefore, that you must have ex."" V poricnced great relief at the statement* mnde on thlj aibject by high ofTtran. :'i The is to be congratulated u-1 upon having in its service such men

Mr rope and Mr BeJl. T know o! officer in the Department's service wB/$ could have done better than Mr ftaS&i did under the circumstances. I *vtoSsM there was no delay, except in perhS&i an ■academic-sense, in the feme oUrfSpi What undone w«k nil'that could fi&K done. I think also that all chawe* EH callousness, mismanagement, and %w*sl of sense «rf responsibility were entail disproved when ono heard whalw!si3 Worship said with regard to the Trftrl ncsscs in general, and of t m mjarticumr ft was Hmve never heard two men the portion they do give wdhfitffcS rtmight-iorward, and honest nuEfiffl a matter of this kind. I think tf3£fl« thei Wtment .gets Into "to SMS men who cap give evidence «* fcjS been given here during the hst thi*%& iftr^ + ?T e Y , *?' irko<l - »■* «>era ws*§ donee, a gratifyinc feature Whkru^roSlli mto «h« question Mr Martin t^niis v co^?? n .« t,,c »» P* the ™m§d«E Very little, in fat -*m beyond rocapitiiktinir. fflih. .J&BISM