The plaintiffs having with reservations closed their case on Tuesday afternoon, the defence called its first, witness on Wednes-cay.
Mr. Shue Yung-shan, aifter_ first having been tested by Mr. C. S. Franklin for plaintiffs as te his ability asa naval architect, told of the extensive physical and mathematical tests, which he performed to determine the stability of the boat. He spoke of adjusting a pendulum in the centre and a corresponding scale on which indications would result when tha pendulum adjusted itself after a predetermined weight (490 Ib. weight of four men) had been placed in various portions of the boat, including the guard and the rail of the upper deck, and the fina] test-in which six men including himself, had leaned against the rail of the upper deck. The results arrived at were that Gn=(3) 1.93 and (2) 1.18, which were relationships existing between the centre of gravity and ai metracentra line. In the last experiment, he took no readings as he was a part of the load, but he maintained that tha angle of inelination was only 14 or 15 degrees.
When asked by Mr. Franklin how it was that in the testimony previously heard, four men on the tail tipped the boat to about 45 degrees, witness replied, "I was in doubt about it for we put six men on the upper deck and got a less anglé."* Mr. Franklin suggested to the
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