London, Dec. 19.
In the Admiralty Court, before Sir Samuel Eva President, judgement has been given in the cross-actions arising out of the collision between H. M. 8S. Hawke and the White Star liner Olympic in the Solent in September.
The Court attributed the collision to the Olympic coming too close to the Hawke and said that it was due solely to the faulty navigation of the Olympic's pilot, who took too wide a sweep round the west Bramble buoy. The Court considered that the speed of the Olympic was groater than the witnesses stated, and also, after the tests which bad been carried out, accepted the theory that the suction pulled the Hawke into the Olympic. Consequently the Court gave judgement with costs for the Commander of H. M. S. Hawke, and judgement for the Olympic on the defence of compulsory pilotage without costs.—Reuter.
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