THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, · 1958.
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ON Sunday night I dressed in a white satin evening gown, as there was a gala dinner. The men were all in their evening clothes and the ladies in full dress. But I wish to say there was no dancing. British ships do not, or did not at that time, permit dancing on the Sabbath_night. Nor was there excessive drinking on the part of the Captain or anyone else, as has been frequently stated. It was a calm, well-behaved crowd of people.
Promise
Saved Me
le From The Titani
By Edith L.-Russull'
the other sielerpent opposto, where my trunks were, threw the into them, shut the dresses Trunks, locked them, closed the atateroom windows, and took the trunk keys with me, and locked "Well, it it is only a qucation Shall I ever of rules and regulations, I fer the cabin door.
freeze to
forget my Inst look into my one do not propose to go out
tateroom? The soft pink light on that deck and at a table lamp, the pink down death," I retorted,
a soft low; everything so cosy, so comfortable. How I hated to icave it.
quilt, the warm radiator casting
Just then I saw an offeer and called out to him: "Mister officer, should I leave in a fifchoat? Is
Tools. Someone said: "Why. In going down the corridor, there any danger?" To this he 1 distinctly remember the lounge, a very they are walking on a sol passed the open door of a friend's replied: "No, I'do not know that. Toom who had purchased a thero la any Immediate danger,, beautiful spectacle, everyone sitting about in ground of let." Nobody had any
The but this ship is damaged and she fear or thought of danger, The beautiful dog in France. evening clothes, the orchestra playing.
York.
She may be towed into the bel sky, completely teassured us. ber tucking it under About 9.30 p.m., having some letters to write, and brilliant, starry dog was whining, and I remem- certainly cannot proceed to New the "Olymple" along in the next I went up to the drawing room and, incidentally The ly disagreeable factor was cover, pafting it, and then close the nearest harbour. We expect
The Intense cold, enough In ing the door,
two or three hours. They will chatted with a little lady from Los Angeles. Her numb one's face and hands,
tuke the passengers off. How ever, there no immediate danger, Madh. You can use your own judgment in this mal- ter."
me. I want to have a good night's sleep." Both perished.
We walked about the deck,
"Miss," he said, "1 am glad Indred to see that you are up and dressed."
husband came along and said he was going to the and spoke to several ofligers
I went to the lounge on "A smoking room to play bridge. "Play all the bridge and asked them what it was all
They said: "We have Deck where I saw my bedroom you want to," she said, "but under no cir- about.
nothing to worry about, The dressed, with a black coat and cumstances do I want you to come down and wake kan iceberg. There is steward Wareham. He was fully
best thing to do is to go back to bowler hat. bed." After about three-quarters of an hour, I decided I would do 10, to get warm. 1 returned to my room, started to undress, and was ready for bed, when a young man had met earlier in the day called through my door: "An order has been given that we are to put on lifebelts." called back: "What for?" "Well," he said, "that's the order,"
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By this time the Purser had offered to return the valuables which passengers and checked with him at the beginning of the voyage, and I noticed quite a "Wareham, do you think there be of people in front of his is any danger, or is this just desk. This seemed ridiculous to one of those English rules that me, and I chose to leave my own requires us to put my lifebelts Jewellery safely locked up in He replied: "It is a rule of the ship's strong box. It is still the Board of Trade that in time there today. I only saved onc of danger rebelis inust be worn plece of jewellery which was by the passengers. But please pinned to my dress, and my
don't be alrmed."
Warchum, what about my dresses and the other things.... Do you think they will transfer the luggage?"
wrist-walch.
THE Titanic
We all looked at I had been writing for some of undresa, time when the library steward this white mats.. called Lights out, please, It's said, "It's an leeberg!" I must 1 handed him a um say 1 was overjoyed, because 1 beg letters telling hi that had always wanted to see an I did not have my pine with leeberg, from the time of my
fur would jay
the schnes days. Somerne sidd ice The rul stamps the next morning, and bergs showed only one-ninth I took a couple of books from above water, and another re- morted that this one must be a the library lo real,
"corker" wider the surface. towered well above the smoke I throw a wrap around me.
has struck an iceberg. Her The order was amin shouted: I walked from the stern of stacks of the ship.
To this he replied: "Now, All women and children must sailors got hold of me and at- tempted to throw me heud fores
passengers are not sure what has happened. the ship to my Fool, which was afterwards that an iceberg has went out to talk to this young ight side and a dark siden in the corridor and found
him trembling and crying and Tware you, I think I would gommediately proceed to the Beat-most ate the lifeboat which-was-
Told to wear their lifebelts,-they-go-on-deck, then way forward on the same deck.
destiny decreed
back to my room and kiss them Deck." At this was called, 1 suspended alongside. But when very much unnerved.
grumble their way back into the reception... room, 1. I was Just turning on the elec- Unfortunately
1 noticed how far from the rail "Well, if we have to put on goodbye. frie light, when I felt a very that the dark side should be
lifebells, we shall have to pn
"In that care, do you think the noticed what seement to be a
regiment of white-clad bakers that Breboat was, swinging on slight far, then a second, a little towards the ship.
Then on,"
I said. I had no ship is going to sink?”
No, Miss. She certainly ought going up the steps with loaves its davils from above, I became don't want to go, we'll save your my head at the bottom offbe of bread as tail as a man, te ferried-so much so that my by anyway, and he grabbed boat, where I groped about for opportunity to thank this young
member saying with a laugh to legs and feet went rigid and my mon- never saw him again." to be able to hold out a good 40 ing bed-p!. Intlerd in- We all regarded it as a great I went back into my stateroom hours anyway."
"Warchant, I think it would be mediately that the Boor of my joke that we had bit an teeberg, and quickly silpped on a dress. room had a derided list, The and ran to the forward part of I was still wearing velvet slip-e good idea if I had my mascot Would you mind going
that brend. as there certainly dead step; but as I thrust me the ship, picking up bits of le pers with imitation diamond with me. I left it on the dressing
and snow which lay scattered buckles, and the thinnost sort of able.
to the stateroom to get it for
war nose in my Hfeboat. hend out of the stateroom wit along the deek, Someone sug silk stockings, and I had on no
I just seized any me?"
I then went out up to the Boal dew, I noticed a huge while gested a snowball fight and we underwear
And as I saw him going back Deck and found myself landing
I then looked about in the mass, like a mountain, slowly were soon throwing snow at one bing that came to hand quickly, drifting by. I put on my fur another.
and put on a long fur coat, a down the corridor to fetch it. 1 ext. to Mr Bruce Ismay, the
aping: By n strange coincidence, the knitted wool cap and fur seat, noticed that there was an incline Managing Director of the White, gutter of the deck for my, slip- which I found minus a cout and rua round to a friend's Toom and said, "Come slong, let's. Looking down towards the and rushed out into the lounge, from the drawing room down the Star Line, who was wearing his pars, buckle that had fallen Madam, if you will put your gentleman who helped me into
I did passage. As I learned after black evening trousers and a go out and see what has hap- Cabin Class deck, 1 noticed a Du before doing this,
It WAS beneath my number
A of stokkers walking what fater seemed
most wards,
Then I looked up again at the arm around my neck, I will lift whom I had remarked of the pened."
thing: I took all the stateroom that the iceberg had bighshirt with frills down the off. I never fround the buckle. foot on my knee and put your the lifeboat was the one to quickly joined by across it and going down below, unusual several others in various stages the ice crunching beneath their tresses in my room; werd into fern into the ship's side, directly number of men at the other rail and at the lifeboat which you to the rail, and from there tender that I was afraid of the
under the swimming pool, and side of him were banked up al was swinging so perilously far you will be able to jump into ship,
sloreys the boat with less danger, and painter. had then come up against the most in a solid mass near the from it, about seven
The boat was you will not be so frightened." water-tight bulkheads,
cabin bulkhead. He spied me above the ses were holding the ship up for the and called out: "What are you very fuil and slightly tilted to time being.
We were
GREAT WAY TO KEEP GOING! HAVE THIS
quick, refreshing lift!
The
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up
which
one standing by me, that suppers fell off. I screamed to ye pig which, perlinps, in my muscat and found it almost this looked like the carnival the two men: "Don't push me" the excitement he mistook for inmediately with lis little fore- position. The man who afterwards what become of all One replied, "If you don't want illeboot. I stood looking towards upright posits I struggled into an
to go,
the lifeboat thinking: There is had helped me leapt In Im- my masent I promised my mediately afterwards, and then mother, it would be with me came the order: "Lower away!" always."
Just then I heard a very quiet
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He answered: "Yes, without doubt."
Philip E. Mock, the
We were lowered towards the water very slowly, with K decided' MB, and someone, in the boat cut the fait ropes 'before wo apinally touched the water. "Shove her off, quickly, or twe are going to be sucked, under " I did not quite understand what he meant,
back Warcham brought me around me smiled. I felt a little Tore reassured.
doing on this ship? I thought all one side. women and children had left! It The thought of getting up on
"Would you really go?" there are any more women and that rait and jumping petrified children on this ship, let them me. With the narrow skirt I asked this my to pig, and the people all step forward and come over to had on, as in those days of 1912. Were me young man, "if you One of the men near më id; the skirts came low to the ankit this stairway immediately."
Mr Iamay practically threw me erd certainly were less than
He then made a chair of handa I never saw Wareham again, but remember down a narrow iron stairway to yard wide, It seemed to me a his wistful remark "I hope we the deck below. There has been feat that only an acrobat could with one of the sailors (such the other's wrist," pret out of this alright. I have much criticism of Mr Iamay, but perform, So there I stood with as we de la playing games, gach Continued Next
Im Httle pig under my arm. qne holding
A jumped and a wife and Ave little kiddies at he certainly saved my life. Lionic." The stewards, in fact passed between two lines of 'One of the sailors reached for and lifted me,
the sailors to the rall. Two burley wird and exclaimed: "If you fell fato the lifeboat, landing on all the
of employees "Tanke" were an exceptionally fine lot of men and women, all glad that they were transferred from the "Olymple" where nearly all of them had served, They undoubtedly knew there was danger, but at no time did they portray their fear to the. passengers, No words can adequately praise theac magni- ficent officers and' crew.
The iqunge began filing with passengers, some dressed and some half dressed, some of them quité displeased at being roused out of bed at this hour. I aver- beard Colonel Washington Hoebling, grandson of the builder of the Brooklyn Bridge saying: "Whatever the trouble is, I doubt if there is any real emergency. The "Titanic" has 15 watertight bulkheads which truly make her unsinkabis, A jeak might slow down her speed o few knols, but it would not do very much more than that." Colonel Roebling subsequently perished,
Just then a deck offjer culled an order from the lounge door! All women and children only, enme this way please and go to B Deck."
Week
Nothing does it
like Seven-Up!
7up
I went up
to the Bost Deck and remember sccing quite a lot of men standing about. We waited and stood around almiessly and then another order was aliouted: “All wonen and children will Immediately return to A Deck.".
Again 1 stood quite a long time wondering what it all meant. Then yot another order: Women and children' back again up to the Boat Deck."
I thought this just a farce, a fort of boat drill, for frankly I jld not know 'what it' could menn. So I disregarded these. Instructions, went back into tho lounge, found a nice comfortable hemchale, and unt' down where was warm and cosy. There were four or five men paengers
hanted about the loungs, and one ERROR strikes Inta the hearts of over 1,000 men,
| bi” then said ho had heard they
Thad launched five lichenis,
"gutely there is no danger 2 1 jald, ......And hö. answered?":"N»,. but you know those Regijah......x They ste the greatest people for fules and regulations" "ang, thó greatest slicklers for this sort of ibing.”
women and children when they know they are to die... and, in one rund, panic-stricken going. moment they fight to find a place in one of the last avercrowded Ufebesis to leave tije doomed - Titanic, In an attempt to stop the spanle Second Officer Lightoller (KENNETH MORE) fires his gun" into
the air. A NIGHT TO REMEMBER” story of the greateni sen disaster in Ainking of RMS Titanic, The Location: anul at: Pinewood Stuff William Macquitty and directs Hoading the Jargo cast"in;; Diger C B Lichtoller f Gryspe