Lord Sumner :-

This is the claimants' appeal from the condemnation, for trading with the enemy, of 1,020 tons of silver-lead ex steamship "Panariellos," as droits of Admiralty. They raise points little, if at all, relied upon below. This explains how it is that evidence, now much needed, was given below scantily or not at all, though often it was in the claimant's possession. The appellants now accept much that before was disputed, and raise issues before their Lordships which must be decided by inference from indefinite and imperfect materials. It may be that they suffer from the course so taken.

On the 11th August, 1914 the Greek steamer "Panariellos" sailed from Ergasteria for Belgium and the United Kingdom with a cargo of minerals belonging to the appellants, the Compagnie Francaise des Mines du Laurium. The cargo consisted of about 1,020 tons of lead, stowed in the bottom of the ship, and about 3,500 tons of calamine and 600 of speiss stowed above the lead. There were three bills of lading : one for the entire cargo, one for half of the lead, another for the other half. Each bill of lading expressed that the cargo, which it covered, was consigned to the appellants themselves. T