THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1912.
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[COPYRIGHT.] THE TITANIC" IN- VESTIGATION.
"STARTLING DISCLOSURES.
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Lostos, April 4.
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THE TURCO-ITALIAN
WAR
BOATS ON LINERS.
IRISH APPROVE E ME RULE
LEADING 8.4. COMPANIES* PRECAUTIONS,
TURKIY'S PEACE CONDITIONS.
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LONDON, April 24.
At the Senate Inquiry, which is Restore correspondeat at Constan- -being continued at Washington, Fitt-tinople wires that the Porta thanks the
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LONDON, April 21.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)The Dublin Mansion House was
LONDON, April 34.
Drugs
and a practica knowled
crammed when the Irish National of their properties, are the Convention met, four thousand
people being unable to chtem admis two chief essentials in the sion. Mr. Redmond presented an motion, which was seconded by the business of the Rule Bill be approved
There was a scene of enthusiasm, lasting for several minutes
man, the third officer of the Titanic, Powers for their offers of mediation timated either that they had already Lord Mayor of Cork, that the Home
stated that ho left the Titanic in a bone carrying forty people. He admit- -tëd that it might have held sixty. Cries" of distress continued, for an hour after the sinking of the ship. He wanted to go to their rescue, but the passengers demaried, and he yielded to them. Immediately after the Titanic sank, he beard four explosiona like those of distant big guns. He believed they. were caused by the bulkheads collaps ing, and not the explosion of the boilers. He did not hear any cries of distress before the ship dived, but after that there was one continuous. moan lasting for an hour. He was not aware
which it accepts conditionally on the maintenance of effective and integral sovereign rights of Turkey, and on the Italian evacuation of Tripolitania. Any other solution is impossible without disturbing the whole of the Empire. The Ports concludes by stating that it is prepared to grant Italy economic concessions in Tripoli,
THE DARDANELLES.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Sydney Buxton announced that te presentatives of sixteen lines bad met the Board of Trade, and in provided boat accommodation for all passengers, or would do so at the earliest possible moment. The lines represented included the Union Castle, Royal Mail, Orient, Buck. mall, Show Savill, and Aberdeen. Y
He further announced that the P.
and O. Co., though not represented, had informed him that they had already provided boat accommoda- tion, for all passengers.
Though the Forte contemplated re- THE FEZ TROUBLE. opening the Dardanelles yesterday, the commander of the forts" refused, to accept the responsibility, in view of the continued presence of the Italian
senting an unprecedented sight.
UNDE WRITERS UNEASY.
FRENCH FACIFICATION
LONDON, April 24. General Morier has dismissed the Pashas at Fez, and has appointed Governors fo replace them.
The ringleaders in the recent up heaval will be tried by court martial, while the inhabitants will be dis- armed. It is also possible that demnity to the families of the vic
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LOVE'S ADVENTURE?
A somewhat pitiful story was `heard''
And ended in a smartly-attired Chiness tram ennductar being sentenced to six months' imprisonment for kidnapping. The complainant was a young girl, and
whether the watertight doors were ships in the Archipelago. Numerous (Reuler's Service to the China Mart before Me Irving at the Magistracy to-day closed, but they would have been use.grain-laden ebips are meanwhile held less in any case, as the iceberg tore out up in the harbour, the Bosphorus pr the side of the ship. If the vessel had struck the berg. head on, she would bave beer afloat to-day...When the collision occurred, the Titanic was going at 214 knots, the greatest speed on the trip. He thought it possible that searchlights, if they had been carried, would bare revealed the proximity of icebergs.
SIGHTING OF THE BERG.
The lookoht man, aamed Fleet, who was in the crow's pest, testified that he reported the berg shortly before the collision. He would probably have seen it in time to prevent the collision if he had had glasses, but these were not provided. When first seen, the borg was apparently the size of two large tables, but it became larger, and was fifty or sixty feet above water -when the ship struck it. It he had bad glasses, he could have seen it soon onough for the Titanic to have avoided
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from her statement, which was given with WE WANT and if care and deep emotion, it appeared that the defend." ant was granted three weeks' leave from
his work, and during that time he begins.
attention will ensure it,
Underwriters at Lloyds are uneasy regarding chartering, for the enormous trade from the Black Sea is at a stand-contribution will be levied as an in-friendly with the girl and took her in to the will have Your Confidence.
still in London, On the Baltic Ex-time. change ship-owners are discussing the advisability of cancelling contracts.
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AWFUL BAYAGERY.
country. He pawned bee bracelets ins shop At Wanchai for 82 and obtained from her a further sum of £90. He then left her and returned to Hongkong me he did not wish to lose employment, "but he was arrested. The matter coming to the ers of the Regis rar Gmaral, and the young There was a terrible scene where ouuple being fond of one another, ater A telegram from Rome states that the wireless operators were barri-tained the idea of marriage, but the girl's With only one mother objected, and the matter had to the Italians have recupied the Island Caded in a room.
revolver between them, they killed come before the magistrate. of Stampalia, in the Aegean Sea, and fifteen of their assailants. Even havo-established revictualling basetually the Moors climbed to the roof which, is most suitable for the repres- and poured burning oil upon them, whereupon one of the operators was sion of contraband.
killed, and his three comrades com mitted suicide to prevent falling alive into the bands of the natives.
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ITALIAN CASUALTIES
A further message from Rome states that the Italians had seven men killed and 70 wounded in repulsing attacks OITY AND SUBURBIN. on the 33rd inst., at the new positions in the Macabez peninsula:
AN OUTSIDER WINS THE RACE.
it. It was customary for the lookout DESTRUCTIVE LEGISLA(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) to have glasses and he had asked for P
TION.
BREAKING UP THE WILSH
CHURCE.
them at Southampton, but the officer -to whom he applied told him there were none for the Icokout. They bad glasses on the vorage from Belfast to Southampton, but none after leaving | (Reuter's Service to the China Mail)| Southampton, When he saw the ice- berg, he sounded three bells and tele- phoned" to the bridge. He got a prompt response, and though the ship was not stopped, she started porting.
A PASSENGER'S EVIDENCE.
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LoxDor, April 24:
LONDON, April 24. The City and Suburban Handicap, run at Epsom to-day, resulted na follows:-
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Chili II. (Huxley) Lonawand (F. Wootton) 2 Moscato (Trigg)
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Also ran: The Story (Maber), Reginald McKenna introduced the Mushroom (Rickaby), Lonawand (F. Welsh Disestablishment Bill. He said Wootton), Saint Nat (Walter Griggs).. it bore great similarity to Mr A Braxted (Winter), Eton Boy (He quith Bill of 1909. It was proved with), Anchors (Piper), Moscato beyond dispate that the Church of Trigg), Atmah (Whalley), Bache- lor's Hope (Donoghue), Chili IL Wales included a small minority of the (Husley). Sandwort (Longhurst), actively religious people of Wales, and Wise Symon (Stokes), and Lince Major Peuchen, of Toronto, one of the consequently could not daim to be the Chest (Ringstead). Ultimus did not passengers, said he was travelling with national Church. An enormous pro-run. ten friends, all of whom were drowned portion of the Welah members favoured After the collision he took Mr Hays to the Bill. All ecclesiastic jurisdiction see the ice which had fallen on the deck. and law would be abolished from the He noticed that M: Hays, who was ist Jaly after passing of the Act Com among the lost, said: "It does not missioners would be appointed to re- ceive existing Church property, and matter, this ship is unsinkable."
distribute it. The total income of the Church was £260,000, and it would be gradually reduced to £188,000. Some
Saint Nat was the first to show up prominently, and made the running to the straight, where Bachelor's Hope was in front. A furlong from home Chili II. tools command and won by three-quarters of a length. the second and third being separated by two lengths.
Major Peuchen said that when the boats were being lowered the discipline was splendid, but he was surprised that more sailors were not at their posts. About cos hundred stokers came up, crowding the deck, but an officer drove them back like sheep. The failure to Lord Robert Cecil said the Bill was eqund the alarm after the collision purely destructive and was prompted by accounted for the non-appearance of envy and sectarianism. It would injäre many women in time to take to the religion incalculably-The-leaving of boats. He wondered why more men certain funds to the Church was a con- were not taken, as none could live in the cession made not in justice bat la fear icy water far more than an hour. He This attempt to buy off the Opposition expressed the opinion that if the look would fail as their principles were not outs hart had glasses, the ship might
The betting was 20 to 1 agst the winner, 7 to Ingst. Lonawand, and
of the endowments would be divided 6 to 1 agst. Moscato. amongst the Welsh colleges, libraries and museums.
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DOUBLES HANDICAP (CLASH Semi-final round. -Capt Sharon and Capt. "Agg (rec 5/6) best M. M. Maas and | G. Miskin (rec 4/6) 4/6, 0/1, 6/4.--- "CLARK. BINGLES HANDICAP *** Fourth round.-P. P. J. Wodehouse (rees 2/0) beat W. H. Virenal (owes 15) 6/9, 6/3, 6/3,
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Indian North West Frontier Province, have died there of blood-poisoning. The name of Dr Fermall was one to confare with, wildest and most fanatical even among the wild of frontier tribesmen.
Wild
Dr Pannell, who was a medical missionary- of the Church of England, received the gold, meds of the Order of the Kaisar-i Hind in 1910. The perils and hardships of missionary'a life were described by Dr Peunell in his book Among the Tribes of the Afghan Frontier, to which Lord Roberts wrote a sympathetic intro- duction Missions have often to add the woric of a schoolmaster to mary duties. Once Dr Peacell was asked to take a young Afghan of noble descent into his hostel Be consented; bot the boy did not appear, and later he heard that hops of young Afghan has been eduesting the ou abendras ir be had just murdered hu younger brotaur.
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arillage noross the burder rather late at night. There were numerous outlaws in PERING, April 24. the village, but the chief, under whose The name of Cabinet has been precaution of putting my bed in
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in turna stituted in its stead The Brat matter two of whom were to keep watch
I had had a hard day's work and wa Mr Lyttelton disagreed with Me Mc.to be dealt with by the Department sound asleep, and this was my safety, have been saved, He read a statement Kenna guros, and affirmed that the will be the flanncial representations of because I was told in the morning that From $5.00 each. Church was the largest denomination in the six nations in respect to the Belgian some of the more famntical spirite: had Muted to kill me in the night, but the
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Wales. He was afraid it was because she was showing a great revival, that her enemies bad lifted their hands against her. Mr McKenna, had in no way justified the measure, which he would inflexibly oppose.
Tie Bryamor J&K bald the Bill would remove serious friction and pro- mate increased religions responsibility and greater happiness wmong the Welth people.
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