THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1935.
TALE OF OCEAN TERROR
TITANIC'S SINKING
RECALLED
Mr. J. L. Hodson, in this story, tells of one of the most horrible disasters in the his tory of King George's relyn.
THE
with the staff next morning. One took a pieve for his glass of whisky, Within a short apice 1.490 people were to die, many in agony. but although the wound bad already been suffered, they didn't know it: and those few who know it behoved, on the whole, finely, if at times misguidedly.
HE night when the Titanic annk ТДА beautiful. The stars shone down from a sky with out cloud on a nea that was stilk It was for these reasons-Inck of no wind ruffled it, no mist shroud-panic, confidence in the unsinkable ed it. But it was dark, moonlesa.ship, reluctance to part from rela- The time was 20 minutes short oftives or baggage, want of exact midnight. The ship was doing 22 knowledge, and water fht was 65 vast knots through the North Atlantic feet below them.. at a where the presence of Icebergs was number of passengers never left auspected.
the vessel: boats salled away half Indeed, three hours before, Cap-full: and those who went in boats full thought all were tain Ernest Smith, grey-bearded that were and old in knowledge of the sen, saved, and heard with surprise and had spoken with the officer-of-the-horror the ultimate terrible cries. watch about the danger of ice; for. of paint fear and distress when. during the day, several warnings finally. The Titanic sank. had been received by Marconi from other ships.
NO ROOM FOR ALL
The man in the crow's nest nad
Although the vessel carried in all been told to keep a very-sharp look- 2,201 passengers and crew, her 20 out. But speed was not reduced. boats would. at best, hold only After all, it was the ship's maiden 1.178; nor had any adequate boat voyage, she was called “unsinkable", drill taken place. Not all the crew millionaires and multi-millionaires in fact knew which were their were on board: so was Mr. Bruce boats.
This photograph shows Mr. and Mrs. Francie Ruitenbury, a name which has become familiar in Another English murder caso. Mr. Rattenbury, an architect, who was formerly a resident of Victoria, Canada, where he designed many prominent buildings, was found in the living room of his home near London with serious head injuries. He had been struck repeatedly with a heavy mallet and died four days inter. Police arrested Mrs. Rattenburg; who 31, and her 19-year-old chauffeur, George Stoner, and charged them with murder. Mr. and Mrs, Rattenbury are shown with their son. Jahn, now six years old.
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women used the ours,
AWFUL LOSSES
Of those saved in them 394 were women and chlidren. 129 men and 189 crew.
Sixty-two per cent, of the first-class were saved, only 25
At the last moment a great rush of emigrants filled the boat deck: for the first time ugly seenes took place. An officer in a crowded boat had to fire his revalver to prevem its being overloaded.
Ismay, managing director of the Disorganisation was inevitable: company owning her. No recurd nevertheless, 20 minutes after the was being sought; Captain Smith's collision It was realised the ship behaviour was normal, although--rould not live, and Ave minutes us we now see--risky.
Inter still. boats began to be u23- To the music of a fashionab) [ruvered, spasmodically at first, bes Viennese waltz dancing went on cause the crew were slow to muster. men and women were engaged in Meanwhile stewards were half-per cent, of the third, bridge and poker; many read or jokingly rousing passengers, help had gone to bed; in the steerage ing them on with lifebelts emigrant women from Sweden. urging them to the boat deck, Poland and the hinterland
Some, neredious, rolled over and Europe-500 altogether couldn't want to sleep agala, a man who speak English hushed their babies smashed, open a jummed door was to sleep. A handful of Chinese told by an irate steward he want. The bonts drow away. played fan-tan.
be arrested in New York, coaples The world's most majestic and strolled up and down the deck in newest vessel,
triumph. the man's
bitter night air wondering steamed, ablaze with lights, aeros irritably when the bother was ges an intensely cold but untroubleding to to over, and officers directed Less than ten miles away inquirers to their boats as politely smaller ship, the California, owned as if they were telling them the by the same firm, lay to, having way to dinner or the Kymnasium, encountered an icefield;
It is said that men ill ade the mechanical horses and bicycles and julled oars, not heroically, but to
ICEBERG SEEN
startled everyone,
Was it.
At 11.40 pm, the look-out man pass the tini on the Titank struck his Rong The first rocket fired from the three times the signal of an ohdeck
1 jeet ahead and a moment Inter then, as grave as that? But com- telephoned that he saw an iceberg, paratively few on board saw the The berg was but 500 yards off. rocket: and those elsewhere on the The officer on the bridge ordered: Californian five to ten miles away "Hard a-starboard and then: Stop,who saw it failed to realise ita Full speed astern."
significance. signalled back in
At the same time he pulled the Morse, received no answer-and did lever which closed the watertight nothing.
doors in the engine-rooni. As¦ The presence, the fruitless pre- those doors shut, the ship, a sixthsence, of the Californian, ininet of a mile long, collided with and with the power of a saviour, is iceberg towering high out of the the chiefest irony in a water.
lisaster
that never ought to have happened. The Californian's wireless operator had gone to bed ten minutes fon soon. The Titanic's urgent and, presently, frantle messages for help were picked up hundreds of miles away: half an hour's journey dis. tant they were unknown.
The blow was glancing, of 10 seconds' doration, and although it was enough to food five compart nents and to sink the ship within three hours, the shock and vibra tion were slight-so slight that few except the allicers and stokers were alarmed. No panic ensued, Regularly five or ten-minutes
intervals boats left the no shouts disturbed the night.
For
while card-playing com- Notwithstanding that in some in- inued, the band didn't stop: men stances women were put in boats by several boats were half who found small pieces of ice or force, snow littering the forward deek empty, many were without biscuits jokingly arranged to have matches for water; one so undermanned that!
Titanic.
Mill
rocket hissed into the night and exploded, the band played on-airs to which London nud New York were gaily pirouetting.
er time after time,
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Two hours later the Carpathia arrived,
it WAN
TAR
When dawn broke beautiful as the night-soft and quiet and laying n rosy tiut on the host of bergs and smaller floes that studded the smooth-sea.
Slowly the Titanic began to dip her head, as if in homage to Fate, Her stern lifted until she stood vertient in the air like some fan- tastic, misshapen enlaan, while the Jonkers heard the must fourful,
About this time the Californian, heart-rending though all the machinery and having learned the truth at last, crockery in the world bad fallen arrived at full speed.
downstairs,
noise. It was
AM
Mingled with but unheard in that din of engines leaving their clamps were awful shrieks. and cries which became penetrating as the ship stol for two or three minutes up ended and poised, and were, mureifully, swiftly silenced as the thousand and featered the leg waters,
Mon
aires like J. J. Aster, Benjamin Guggenheim, 4. O. Widener, and Isidor Straus, and the famous, like W. T. Stead, were left behind, now frenzied, together with the gobbling but not understood people of Mid-Europe. Colmel Antor had persunded his young wife to enter about: Mrs. Straus had said, with The band played till almost the
calm face, she would stay with last the engineers remained
duty, so did the offears loft CAT! Smith swimming, board. Capt. placed a child in a boat and him- Un one piece of self turned away. wreckage men stood back to back afraid to stir lest they should over- balance, repeating the Lord's Pray-
ber husbanį.
The new SOS call was sparking out, a sgaman who tried to take the operator's lifebelt had his skall split with a crowbar, lights still blazed, kept going by engineers in
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