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SATURDAY APRIL 27. 1812.

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THE TITANIC” ENQUIRY.

THE PASSENGERS' CONDUCT.

(Reiter's Service to the China Mail)

LONDON, April 26.

The look ont man, Flect, re-examined by the Senate Committee, said he saw no women left on the decks. There were a number of men who did not try to or ask to get into the boats.

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The Chairman, Senator Smith (whose) methods are being pub criticised). announced that the Committee intended to detain all British survivors till they had learned all they could regarding the disaster, and would not tolerate any attempt on the part of the Press and others to shape the course of the inquiry.

MR ISMAY'S EXÇİTEMENT,

FOOLISH QUESTIONS.

The following pre

examples of

"Don't

Senator Smith's questions: Where de icebergs come from they "emit light like the moon and stars? O what are icebergs com posed?

"Did the chip sink by the hear or the bows

Mr. Smith asked Officer Lowe: "Are you temperate"

Fes."

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"Glad to hear it. Had a note from a reputabla man that you were drinking on the night of the accident." The reply was "Rabbish.. I, am a total abstainer."

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[COPYRIGHT] TROUBLE ON THE **OLYMPIO...”

(Reuters Service to the China Mail)

Losnos, April 25,

All ranks below boatswain's mate, belonging to the crew of the Olym. pic, struck yesterday evening, but afterwards agreed to sail.

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(Reuter's Service to the China Mail) CIRCULATING

LONDON, April 26.

Fenice was beflagged yesterday when the Duke of Genoa inaugurated the new Campanile amidst enormous enthusinsin. There were prose sions, many notable people were pre- sent, the gondolas, were in great. force, and the bluejackets fired Jeux... de-joie,

Loxpox, April 26. A deputation of the Olympic's stokers this afternoon watebed a des monstration with the liner's collap(Reuter's sible boats. The men waited for the report of the deputation and after- wide the Seafarers' Union-demand-

the dismissal of eighteen firemen who had remained on the Olympic."

The White Star Company refused; consequently there is a deadlock. **

LATER

The Olympic has not yet procured

stokers.

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STIRRING SOENES ON BOARD,

SAILORS ARRESTED. -

In the House of Lords, Lord Stan- hope called attention to the American inquiry into the loss of a vessel-flying. the British flag, and pointed out that if the fact that the owning company was partly American was accepted as justi fication, this would strike at the root of the position of merchantmen in timsage. Upon the firemen from Liver

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LONDON, April 26.

The Australian cricketers have arrived here. Mr. Gregory said that the team was very hopeful, and that all of them were workers and

LONDON, April 27triers" The Olympic is retuming to South. ampton, having abandoned her voy

FIELD MARSHAL NICHOLSON.

(Reuter's Service to the China Afail)

LONDON, April 26.

The fifth officer, Lowe, admitted order “ing Mr Ismay away from the brat boat lowered. He did not know it was Mr Igmay till afterwards: Mr Ismay was not trying to board the beat, but was of war, rendering nationality doubtful pool embarking on the vessel to-day, excited, repeatedly saying: "Lower Though our relations with America the seamen refused to anil on the away." Witness told him not to inter-were so friendly sa to make it impos. ground that they (the fremen) were fere with the work, but "Get to bell"sible for an international question to non-union men. Numbers of the Mr Ismay then stepped back without arise, there was a certain feeling in seamen jumped into a tug The Mr. Asquith has invited Field Great Britain which was not so farcibir Olympic signalled to the cruiser Marshal Nicholson to rejoin the replying.

worded as American feeling would Cochrane and also communicated Committee of Imperial Defence. have been if the position were reversed with Portsmouth Captain Goodia-Note-Field-Marshal Nicholson was

hard Morley deprecated the discus-ongh proceeded in a pinnace and member of the Army Council from 1906 to sion and said undoubtedly any State addressed the men, reminding them 1907, and left it to become Chief of General might insite hereby, ale lives of its that as they bad signed on this to the Japanese Army in the Russian war foreign wreck whereby the

conduct practically amounted to of 1904-5ED. C. M.] subjects were lost, though he was not mutiny. The police then came on aware of any precedent. No com the scene and arrested fifty of the munications had been addressed to the sailors for refusing to sail.. United States or received from them. Alluding to the detention of witnesssa, Lord Morley said such powers existed in most countries, but it was obvious that they should be exercised with full consideration of the witnesses and also of the necessities of any enquiry at Home. They could not suppose that the Senate Committee would overlook

it

The launching of the boat was very successfully done, but though built to carry a persons it was unsafe to load to full capacity before lowering. He defended Prins, the officer in charge of the boat, for not rescuing those in the water because it would bave endangered those already in the boat. He made no discrimination regarding the class of "wonten put into the boats. If some boats were not fully loaded it was be cause they could not find people willing to go. They did not seem to care about getting into the boats. No effort was made by the officers and crew either to "restrain or direct passengers. He w women on the deck but they did not respond to the calls." He had no time to drag them in. One man, an Italian neaked into the boat dressed as n woman and was not found out until too Iate.

HARROWING SCINES.

Witness called for volunteers to row

back to the wreck and they picked up four men in the water. One was Mr Hays, of New York, who died after being taken out." He waited till the cries of -the drowning had ceased before be rowed back, as he did not dare to enter ---the struggling mass for fear of sinking It was an hour and a half before the orien of the drowning ceased.

MR ISMAY'S MENTAL CON-

DITION.

Mr Lightholder, the second officer recalled, said Mr launay, while he was on board the Carpathia, was not mentally able to transact business: he was possessed of the idea that he ought to have gone down with the ship, The Carpatina's doctor had trouble with Mr Isa in regard to this. The Chief Officer forced Mr Ismany into the boat.

QUARTIRMASTER'S DENIALS.

that.

LATER.

| Staff in 1908. He was chief British attache.

WELSH DISESTABLISH

MENT...

Fifty-three of the sailors were arrested and charged at Portsmouth MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S DEFENCE. under the Merchants' Shipping Act with unlawfully disobeying the corr mands of the captain.

The fifth officer testified that the boats were perfectly sound, with one exception.

Lorri Lansdowne said that though The men also objected to the fire- the procedure was unprecedented, it men engaged on the ground that they must be remembered that the circum-knew nothing of the work, stances were also unparalleled.

Lord Halebury omphasised that the national character of a ship was no mere technicality but a matter of supreme importance.

THE LOST AND SAVED.

Mr. Buxton, President of the Board of Trade, in reply to Mr Chiczm-Money, M.P. has issued a return showing the number of passengers carried by the Titanic and the number sared, as follows:-

Carried. Saved.. First Class, fen...... 173 Women.. 144 Children 5 Second Class, Men... 160

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On the resumption of the debate on the Welsh Disestablishment Bill, Mr. Lloyd George said the wrong the Welsh people felt was that Eng land was imposing upon them us national and exponent of their spint- ual life England's own church, which was an exponent of English views of life and English temperament. What greater wrong could be inflicted on e-nation? Ha proceeded then-to-a- lengthy defence of disendowment..

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The House of Commons read the Welsh Disestablishment Bill a first

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail) time by 881 votes to 253.

LONDON, April 28.

THE FEZ REVOLT.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)

LONDON, April 26.

A message from Reuter's corre- spondent at St. Petersburg states. that in the Duma the Minister, for the Interior said that be fully en dorsed the action of the authorities in the Lena goldfields. A force of

It appears that the Jewish casual- 110 soldiers was faced by a mob of ties in the recent revpit at Fez were 7,000 and was compelled to fire four 51 killed and 80 wounded.

volleys owing to the charges made A Tangier message reports that

by the strikers. He affirmed that 176 Shereefian cavalry encamped at

the strikers were imbued with poli-Arbaona, under the command of a

tical motives and had planned to French captain, have deserted with seize the soldiers' weapons and plun- their arma and borses, der the mines.

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MR. HARCOURT EXPLAINS.

W. T, Stead has been held in West- minister Chapel, The Rev. Dr. Clifford read messages of sympathy from Queen Alexandra, the Gaekwa of Baroda, (Reuter's Service to the China. Maik General Botha, Mr Steyn, and admirers in Johannesburg and Europe.

The congregation included Lord Esher, Lord Haldane, Lord Milnor Earl Grey, Mr Lloyd George, Mr. John Barns, and De Macramara.

Quartermaster Flitches, who wan forcibly brought to Washington from New York, where he was board the The steamer Mackay Bennet sont a Celtic, denied that he seized all the wireless message that she has recover wraps and drank all the whisky oned the body of" Vear,"

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LONDON, April 26. Beuter's Paris correspondent states that seven thousand of the Jews who were escaping from the Fez massacre, refuge in the Sultan's garden, where are completely rained. They took their only shelter was in the empty cages of the Sultan's menagerie. Tents are being erected for the re-

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