Singapore, Nov. 23.
The Court of Inquiry investigating the sinking of the steamship Sirdhana in Singapore harbour, ross today alter hearing Capt, Philip Fairbairn of the Sirdhana testify that he had not been warned of the location of the mine field in. which the Sirdhana foundered.
The captain of the vessel roveated, with the court's permission, that, besides the steamship Hoegh, a trans: porter which sank in the mine field, the British ship Brecknockshire had run through the mine field but was! of damaged, "because its speed of 18) Knots carried it through."
Falrbalrn's counsel roterred to ler ax a "dreadful tragedy of saying. that despite the precautions taken. to inform mariners of the Tocation of the mine field Capt. Fairbairn had not been aware that the mine field was in his path when his {hip str wer a mine and sank—United New Industrial Area For Tientsin Peiping, Nov. 24. The Reconstruction. Adminisivation of the "Provisional Government" is reported to have worked out an elht-year plan for the establishment fof an industrial district between Tientsin and Tangku, Chinese reports state, This has been chosen because is proximity to Tientsin, the mercial city" in North Tangku, now the rst of which, fire not Set now
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