No More Right to the Rails than Other Traffic The Shanghai Electric Cons truction Ca. being a British concern. there is much interest attaching to a recent decision at Home. The question whether a tramear jis 2 privileged vehicle was raised at the Manchester County Court during the hearing of a claim for damages. by a woman who was hurt in a collision between a tramcar and a motor-lorry. The accident occurred in a fog in which, according to the evidence, it was impossible to sce more than two or three yards ahead The tram ran into the motor-lom which was travelling in front of it.
Counsel for the plaintiff stated that the driver of the tram sounded his gong continually for a considerable distance. The driver of the lorry must have heard it, and shoul have got off the molals.
Judge Mellor: Why? He had much right there as the other. The position is not that the tramways have an extra right to the road and cther traffic must get out of the I know there are tram drivers who think that is the position, but that view is not encouraged in: this court. The lorry had quite as much right on the rails as the tramear, His Honour added that he did not see what the driver of the lor could have done. If he had gone cit the rails he might have bumped into something else. In the cireumstinees he was safer on the metals.
Counsel said that in London dura fog drivers kept their vehicles se to the kerbstone with a lamp at the end of the seit to guide them in doing so.
Judge Mellor: I once led a horse and hansom from, Euston Station to my home in London. carried a lamp, not because it was foggy but because the driver was drunk. (Laughter).
The woman's claim was not allowed.
Uxver the army retrenchment scheme in Japan a considerable number of cffiegss are to be retired, and their retiring allowances have, now been announced as follows Lieutenant-Generals will be granted the sum of Yen 13,000; Major-Generals, Yen 11,000; Colonels, Yea 9,180; Lieutenant-Colonels, Yen 7/900; Majors, Yen 5,170; Captains, Yon 4,200; and Lieutenants. and Sub-Lieutenants, Yen 3,000. ly. The intervals are roughly 13, Iz, 15, and 7 years, and as tae last tio were in 1907 and 1914, we may expect the next in 1927; which will also be marked by the occurrence of a solar eclipse total im the north of England.
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