judgment has been reached by the board of arbitrators in the ease of the Satoh Shokai Goshi Kaisha of Japan and the Ta Tung Steamship 'Company Ltd. of Shanghai, owners respectively of the Atsuta Maru No, 2 and the Hsin Da Ming which Ships collided on the night of February 18, 1928, in the Yangtze with an alleged' loss of aver B60 lives of passengers and crew em the Hsin Da Ming and the total wrecking of the vessel and cargo as the craft sank to the river bot~ tom shortly after the crash.
Thovgh only three of the five ar-Ditrators signed the decision the award is understood to be legal and Binding. she had crossed the river into the east side of the mid-channel to within about 1000 feet from East bank, that the course was then changed North and the Atsuta Maru No. 2 was observed coming down the river a little towards the East bank and nearly in the centre of the river over two and a half miles away on her port bow pointing toward the Beacon."
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