MONDAY APRIL 29, 1918.
THE
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TITANIC" ENQUIRY. FURTHER INTERESTING EVIDENOR.
THE CHINAM
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THE RELIEF FUNDS.
The total funds, now amount to £280,000
Canadian Government has The babled ten thousand dollars to the Mansion Horse Fund
SURVIVORS AT PLYMOUTH.
LONDON, April
The members of the Titanic's craw who have arrived at Flymouth sca de-
Many bitterly resant enforced da-
DATE-OF- BRITISH INQUIRY.
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and received the rely, " Shut up : you. LONDON, April 27. On the resumption of the Titanic jammed me working Cape Race." Ho Inquiry at Washington Senator Smith went to bed and was awakened at 3.40 referred to British criticisms of the by the chief officer, who said he had net of the Inquiry and said that seen rockota. Witness called up the the officers of the Titanic assured him Frankfurt, which answered, informing that they had no grounds for complaint.] him of the loss of the Titanic, Evantseeking news of lost ones, The Committee had ample powers and added that the crew were talking was endeavouring to get at the truth about having sighted rockets and that which the British people wanted. HoGill xpected to get £10 from some was confident that adequate legislation newspaper for a rocket story when he by the Senate would follow.
landed.
tained at the docks for examination tention, and there are pastic scenos among the bereaved people who are
The men rofused to spark until re- presentatives of the Seafarers' Union were admitted
A stoker related bis adventurous esaspe ona flosting door, while a
WOMEN THROWN INTO LIFE RESCUING THE PASSENGERS, steward said the Carpathia passed one
BOATS.
In his evidence. Seaman Evans testi. ked that the men and children were thrown inig the life-boats, as they were afraid to jurap:
A lamp-trimmer said that there were no lights on the basis.
BOATS WAIN'S DRAMATTO”
"PRONOUNCEMENT.
Seaman Hemming said he was asleep at the time of the collisich. The boat swain wakened him, saying, "Turn out, you fellows: you haven't half an hour to live: keep it to yourselves.""
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Other senmen testified that they were not warned, and that many were sky Larking after the accident.
LEGISLATION REGARDING WIRELESS OPERATORS.
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Seater Bules, from the Titanic, testified that another steamer wAT sighted when the Titanic sank. Her lights kept the life-boats together, and the idea that she was going to their assistance kept the passengers left on the Titanic quiet.
"Phantom
THE "PHANTOM SHIP.
London, April 28. The evidence taken yesterday concerned the so-called ship" whose lights were seen by survi- vors. The chief witness was Captain Moore, of the Canadian-Pacific steamer Mouat Temple, whose evidence refuted the allegations made in the Press that the Californian and the Mount Temple were negligent in assisting the Titanic. Captain Moore mentioned: that he passed an unknown schooner of about five thousand tons and a tramp steamer, which must have been near the Titanic when she sank. He read long list of the Titanic's messages which he intercepted, and said that he made full speel towar. a her, awaking -all-the-firsmes, and serving out.extra ram to spur them to action. Whea day broke, he found a great field of ice, including forty or Afty bergs, souse of which wars hundreds of feet high, and was compelled to hoist men to the mast- head, to seek a lens for the steamer. The
Re-examined, Mr Franklin, the. White Star agent in New York, said he did not doubt that the investigation would result in legislation affecting the a ber and status of the wireless operature
on board ships.
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SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE.
Rockets Disregarded.
Sensational evidence was given by witness named Gill, the donkey engine min on the liner Californian. He declar ed that he desired to prevent any captain,
ice floe extending for 20 miles."
SEQUEL TO "TITANIO" DISASTER.
SEAMEN'S AND FIREMEN'S DEMAN DR.
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LONDON, April 29.
COFTBIGET THER JAH OF SARAWAK
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LONDON April 28 The Rajah of Sarawak hus, lote for Marseilles, en route to Sarawak.
PARISIAN SYDNEY STREET AFFRAY
LONDON, April 28... Reuter's Paris correspondent states shat yesterday evening the police surrounded an isolated house "ut Choisy-le-Roi, six miles from Paris, where the motor car bandits had taken refuge.
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The bandits kept up steady firing at the police, who have summoned the engineers, to dynamite the house.
LATEST HOME TURF BETTING.
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LONDON, April 27.
On the Sandown course, for the. Two Thousand Guineas, £1,200 was taken on White Star at evens.
LONDON, April 27.
The latest changes in the betting on the Two Thousand Guineng are
7 to 1 agst. Jingling Geordie. 100 to 6 arst. Lom.
On the Derby
2 to 1 agst White Star. 4 to 1 agst. Lomad. Evens: White Star ard Lomord
The Liverpool branch of the Seamen's and Firemen's Union have recommended that members sailing from Liverpool should insist in the right of inspection of lifeboats by representatives of the coupled. Union, and also an incredse of wages to 24-10-0 per month in the case of seamen and £5 in the case of firemen
NEW GERMAN DREAD-
NOUGHT
MORE TROUBLE IN MOROCCO.
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LONDON, April 27. -Both France and Spain are largely reinforcing their troops in Morocco, ferment, as exemplified by the up- (Beuter's Service to the China Mail.) where there is undoubtedly serious
LONDON April 28.
Dread-rising at Fez, the disaffection among foreign drilled troops elsewhere and the marked revival of activity among the Riffam. -
1. Germany's thirteenth nought, the Koenig Albert, has been launched ai Danzig.
DUTCH ROYALTY IN LONDON.
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LONDON, April 28.
Prince Henry of the Netherlands lunched on Saturday at Buckingharg
neglecting to aid a vessel in distress, ramp stesiner war close by, and he Palace with Their Majesties" and
from bushing it up. He alleged that several of the crow were afraid of losing
tried to call her, but she apparently afterwards sailed for. Holland. had no wireless.".
Captain Moore said undoubtedly the their jobs and refused to testify. He said Titanic had not fixed her position pro that he saw the Titanic most plainly perly. She must has been eight miles going at full speed at 11.56 in the even further cast than the spot reported,
ing when the Californian's engines were stopped on account of the drifting ice. Ten minutes later he saw a rocket tem miles distant, and then another. "He „did not notify the bridge because it was
not his businees. Be turned in.and was
ME STEAD'S LAST ACTION.
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A steward, named Cunningham, de- posed to calling Mr Stead, who asked awakened at 6.40 in the morning when him to show him how to put on a life- the Californian was going at full speed belt, Cunningham put the lifs-belt on to the assistance of the Titanic. He Mr Stead, and did not see him again.
beard one officer tell another that the captain, had been notified of the rockets.. and the antire cres, talked about the disregard of the rocketa.
THE "CALIFORNIAN CAPTAIN'S STORY,
A CALUMNY REFUTED.
Mr Franklin, the Vice-President of the White Star Co., reculled, was asked by Beuator Smith if, after he learned of the loss of the Tinaois, the White Star Co. re-insured her.
Mr Franklin emphatically denied the
presa,
The inquiry was adjourned.
SENATOR SMITH
INTERVIEWED.
Captain Lord, of the Californien, denied Gill's allegations. He said that suggestion, pointing out that all to at 1015 in the evening the notified the surance was handlad in New York, not Titanic, which was then 193 miles in London, thus silencing suspicions distant, of the presence of ice, and hinted at by the sensational American received the reply, "Shut up ke out." There was to farther communi. cation with the Titanic. He did not receive any distress call till six in the morning, when he got it from the Virginian. He did not see either th Titanic or her signals on Sunday even ing. He took precautions, and doubled the watch owing to reports received twe or three days providusly of the presence of les from steamers, His wireless operator was not on duty on Sunday might. After he had sent the "Ice "message" he came to the bridge at 10.30 and an officer told him he thought he had seen a light, but it had been a peculiar night, and stars had been mis taken for lights. Then a ship came up
and lay five tiles from the Californian all night long. Be was convinced was not the Titanit, About one o'clock in the morning he told the operator to recall the ship, which seat up, several rockets, rat did not adver the wireless calla. They were white rocketa which be sent up, not rockets of distress. He had a faint recollection of the cahin boy clock in the morning aying out a ship still standing about Soon after, ste steamed away
A BIG PRICE FOR A ROCKET
A telegram from Washington atatea that Seastor Smith, Chairman of the
Committee of Inquiry, in an interview, expressed the opinion that the immediate result of the inquiry would be stringent American legislation regarding the use
of wireless on ships.
THE BRITISH. INQUIRY.
The Assessors.
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VICTORY.
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LONDON, April ‘28.
A wire from St. Louis states that Col. Roosevelt has won the Missouri Republican Convention.
ROOSEVELT AND PRESIDENT TAFT.
LATER.
FRENCH RESIDENT-GENERAL APPOINTED
́LATER.
Reuter's Paris correspondent states. that General Lyautey has been ap pointed Resident-General in Morocco.
RUSSIA AND THE NEAR GAST
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LONDON, April 27.
Reuter's St. Petersburg correspon- dent states that M. Suzonoff, the Russian Foreign Minister, in-his maiden speech, said that Russia did not see any danger of a general cons
flict, in the Near East, in the Italian conduct of the Turco-Italian War. The bombardment of the Dardanelles was not accompanied by acts that showed that Italy had departed from- the idea of restricting operations so Col. Roosevelt, speaking at Wor-that they did not affect the inter- cester, Massachusets, vehemently este of neutrals. The closure of the. replied to President Taft, declaring Dardanelles had affected Bussian that the latter had been, not merely commercial interests and Russia had in thought, word and deed, disloyal remonstrated with Constantinople.. to their past friendship, but had been disloyal to every canon of ordinary decency and fair dealing. President Taft, he concluded, had yielded him- self to the "bosses," and bad, con-
victed himself of insincerity, when he signed the Fayne-Aldrich tariff.
RAILWAY WORKERS
COMBINING.
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LONDON, April 28.
The General Railway Workers' Union has voted, by. 15,086 to 110, in favour of the fusion of the Railway Unions. It is understand that the Signalmen's and Pointsmen's Socio- ties favour the scheme
THE LATE JUSTIN -McCARTHY.
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LONDON, April 21.
The British Inquiry into the loss of The funeral of Justin McCarthy
the Titanic opens on May The mors will be Admiral Googh Caltrope Captain Clarke, a Board of Trade Inspector: Commander Lyon, an assessor of the Admiralty Court; and Professor Biles
BOARD OF TRADE PRI- CAUTIONS.
The survivors of the ow of the Titanic: Artfred Plymouth to day (Sunday) on board the steamer Lap
They will be detained at the docks until they have been examined Board of Trade.
took place on Saturday at West Hampstead. Many beautiful flox ers were sent, and there was a large assemblage of political and literary friends, including Mr. Redmond and other Nationalists.
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