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TITANIC " CALAMITY.

THE SENATORIAL INQUIRY.

NO PANIC.

LONDON, April 26th. The look-out man, Fleet, 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

naked to get into the boats.

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AN INTERESTING ANALYSIS.

Mr. Buxton, President of the Board of The Chairman (Senator Smith whose Trade, in reply to Mr. Chiozza-Money, methods are being much criticised) M.P. has issued a return showing the announced, that the Committée intended number of passengers carried by the to detain all British survivors till they Titanic and the number had learned all they could regarding the follows:- disaster, and would not tolerate any attempt on the part of the Press and others to shape the course of the inquiry,

THE CHAIRMAN OVERRULED.

Members of the Committee overruled

The industries. She is gradually taxing, or more popular than guarded ones. public laves to be scarifiod. Another samlegislating, or expropriating every Western ple of the inaccurate statements that are so interest out of Japan, Korea and Manchuria, freely circulated in regard to Japan decurs and as far as possible out of China. These THE

l'are only a few of the charges Mr. VnROOMAN in an address delivered by Mr. ROBERT E Downnat Shangha: before the Union Church brings against Japau, but they are sufficient to show the drift of his paper. To deal with WATSON Literary and Social Guild, reported at

length in the Shanghal National Review, the charges seriatim would occupe too much "Japan" be tells us, "has in some respects space. Briefly it may be said they are all eft us British behind in the matter of poli- quite correct, although it may he noted that tical equality. Payment of members of a Bill has been passed granting foreigners Parliament is no new thing with them, and right to own land with certain restrictions. mirsed already manhood suffrage is an accomplish-Mr. VrooMAN, however, has

Mr. Dowie could hardly have the whole point of the Japanese position; ed fact." made a moro unfortunate selection of he has made a series of perfectly correct WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, instaness to prove political equality, because, statements, but he has not indiested on briefly, the first does not prove political whist ground Japanese claim in other coun- equality at all and the second is not true, tries the rights they refuso foreigners inexplained that he fired pistol shots into Whether it is a right and proper thing that their own, and thus be has put a false members of Parliament should be paid is complexion on his story. All the Japanese space in order to frighten Italian steerage another question; but the fact that such demand is that they be treated as other passengers. He was three decks below the The deck was crowded with payment has nothing to do with political nations, neither better oor, worse. They boat deck. equality is fully evidenced by the case of hold, rightly or wrongly, that the West has steerage passengers chiefly Italians. One Japan, which does pay her members, but at no right to discriminate against them as person jumping into a descending beat England as speedily as possible. the same time only allow the vote to 3 per Asiatics. If a Western country refuses to might buckle it up, Be saw Italians cent. of the population, which is very far allow its soil to be held by alious, well and removed from the manhood suffrage Mr, good. Japan makes no demand that that glaring, ready to spring, and therefore he fired into space between the boat and Downs imagines. The powers of the Diet country should adopt a policy different to also are not exactly consistent with political her own. But when a country throws open the side of the ship as it came down.

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FIFTH OFFICER'S EVIDENCE.

Mr. Lowe, the fifth officer of the Titanic,

FIFTH OFFICER'S REBUKE TO ^

MR. ISMAY.

Chairman Smith and decided to expedite the taking of evidence in order to permit the crow of the Titanic to return to

SENATOR'S SILLY QUESTIONS.

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The following are examples of Senator Smith's questions:- Where do icebergs | £200,000, the Mansion House fund keing

£138,000. eome from?" "Don't they emit light like the moon and stars?" "Of what are ice- bega composed?" "Did the ship aink by. the head or the bows ? Mr. Smith asked Officer Lowe: "Are you temperate ?". "Yes." "Glad to hear it. Had a note from a reputable man that you were drinking on the night of the accident." Lower The reply was "Rubbish. I am a total Witness told him not to inter-abstainer." fere with the work, but "gel to hell.",

The fifth officer, Lowe, admitted order ing Mr. Ismay away from the first boat He did not know it. was Mr. lowered.

Mr. Ismay vas

Islay till afterwards. not trying to board the boat, but was excited, repeatedly saying:

away:

NO DISCRIMINATION REGARDING

WOMEN.

are allowed some liberty in discussion, the and unfairly discriminate against one Government expects the measures it sub-nation, or section of nations, Japan naturally mits to be passed. On an historic occasion objects. No self-respecting nation could some years ago a recalcitrant Diet, refusing allow itself to be discriminated against in Percase Per to pass a Government measure, was con- such a such a way without a protest. Japan fronted with an Imperial Ordinance, to does not demand that her nation be given which it had perforce to submit. Another special privileges in the way of landowning, of Mr. Dowie's remarks is, at least open to mining, fishing, etc. She only asks that she misconception. He says "extra-territoriali- be given the same privileges as are given to ty has been abolished (ia Japan] and the other nations. Theoretically it may be right that thors should be reciprocity in 31.40 2.70 white man cannot kick and cuff a Japanese."

This either implies that in some extraordi- these matters, that the nation which excludes Mr. Ismay then stepped back without 31.40 2.70nary way extra-territoriality gave foreigners aliens from privileges granted to her own replying. a legal right to kick and cuff" the nationals should have the same treatment Japanese-perhaps by a special clause in meted out to her nationals abread. But the 37.40 3.20 the treaties; or that the Japanese had no difficulties in the way of carrying this

Mr. Lightholder, the second officer, means of redress when so assaulted. It reciprocity into practice are so enormous recalled, said Mr. Ismay, while he was on D-VERY FINE OLD PALE

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an investigation as if it had been made in justified in asking no discrimination be gone down with the ship. The Carpathia's his own courts. As a matter of fact the made against her. This is the whole cruz (The sbore Prices include daty.)

Japanese had a general impression that of the situation, but one which Mr they did not receive full justice in the Con- VROOMAN ignores. A.S. WATSON & CO., [suler courts, but this was merely a natural feeling of jealousy and was not founded on any actual occurrence. As for kicks and cuffs, Mr. Down would seem here to be making a quiet dig at proceedings in Shanghai and other open ports in China, but his inference seems rather sweeping. His allegation may be true of places in China, but it certainly was not true of Japan, excluding, of course sailors fights or the pranks of high spirited youths, who generally got as much as they gave. The notion that the Japanese under extra-territoriality were a down- trodden people will not bear examination. They objected to extra territoriality be cause it naturally hurt their pride to have any portion of their country placed outside their control, but as for their being any better off materially since its abolition doubts may he expressed. However, must

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in justics to Mr. DowIE, it be admitted that his other remarks on Japan in the address above referred to, are in the main correct. He contends that the

The French mail of the 28th March was

delivered in London on the 28th April..

We have been informed by the Colonial Secretary's Office that Shanghai has de clared Hongkong to be an infected port.

John's Cathedral to-morrow, April 28th. A portion of the Offerings in St.

will be given to the Local Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society. The Rev. W. H. Hewitt, B.D., will be the preacher at matins.

The Scenic Railway, which WBS an attraction at the Hongkong University Bazaar, and was subsequently sold at auction, is now being installed in the old Supreme Court building, and will be "open for traffic" on May 1st. See Advt.

The masters cf three fishing boats were charged yesterday, before Commander Beckwith, R.N. with hovering within three hundred feet of H.M.S. Minotaur, without the permission of the Harbour Master or the Officer Commanding the

HONGKONG OFFICE: 101, Dais Voux ROAD C abolition of extra-territoriality has not drivanship. Defendants were each fined $5. LONDON OPTION: 131, Flauz Bremer. 20 foreigners from Japan-he quotes figures

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, APRIL 27TH, 1912.

to show they have really increased; and that although the percentage of the trade passing through foreign lands has fallen, the actual gross amount of trade bas greatly

ment.

H.M.S. Astrer left for Home yesterday afternoon. As she left her moorings with the white pennant flying, the bluejackets manned the yards and gave rousing cheers as they passed the other cruisers, the men from these responding right bustily. The band on board the Flori at the same time played "Will ye no come back again?***

An interesting story of how a thief was caught red-handed cornes from Shaukiwan A man was seen leaving a house which he har entered and stolen money therefrom, and on realizing that he was discovered he bolted, but was pursued to the shore He threw the money into the sea and jumped into a sampan, but as the woman belonging to the boat would not row him and as he could not row himself he had to wait until his pursuers came along and captured him.

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MR. ISMAY'S DETENTION.

Considerable feeling is being aroused in London over the practically forcible detention of Mr. Ismay and the members of the Titanic's crew, firstly in New York and then in Washington. Some resent- ment is felt at the high-handed procedure of the Senatorial Committee and numerous questions on the subject were asked in the House of Commons at ques- Mr. Acland explained that tion time.. the American statutes gave power for such inquiry to be held. Nevertheless it is

that the

witnesses

"WHO IS TO BLAMET

Lord Muskerry, at the opening of the London Branch of the Imperial Merchants Quild, said the insufficiency of boats on

liners was reported upon to the Marina Department of the Board of Trade by an advisory committee in July, 1911, but nothing was done and no notice taken till.

the news that the Titaire had struck

at iceberg. The Department then wrote to the Committee saying that it agreed to the proposals but night go further. This was an attempt to throw the blame upon others.

THE

**FRANKFURT'S" EXPERIENCE.

that be immediately replied to the message from the Titanie that it would tako cleven

hours to reach the sinking vessel. Het arrived on the scene through a labyrinth of UNDERWRITERS' SYMPATHY FOR ice in which the Carpathia, the Firgisis and the Birma þad also been seeking for survivors,

MR. ISMAY.

MEMORIAL SERVICE TO MR. STEAD.

doctor had trouble with Mr. Ismay in regard to this. The Chief Officer

The German liner Frankfurt, which forced Mr. Tensy into the boat.

was said to be the nearest steamer to the The launching of the boat was very understood

were Titanic when she struck the iceberg, has Successfully done, but though built to appearing voluntarily and instructions arrived at Bremen. The Captain said carry 65 persons it was unsafe to load it would no doubt he sent to Mr. Bryce, the to its full capacity before lowering. He British Ambassador, to protect Britishers defended Pittman, the officer in charge of | if necessary. He hoped that it would be the boat, for not rescuing those in the unnecessary. water because it would have endangered. those already in the boat. He made no discrimination regarding the class of women put into the boats. If some boats were not fully loaded it was because they could not find people willing to go. did not seem to care about getting into No effort was made by the officers and crew either to restrain or direct passengers. He saw women on the deck but they did not respond to the calls. He had no time to drag them in. One man, an Italian, ancaked into the boat dressed as a woman and was not found out until too late. He called for volun. teers 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 he rowed back, as he did not dare to enter the struggling mass for fear of sinking. It was an hour and " half before the cries of the drowning ceased.

All the London underwriters of the Titanic, whose losses are nearly £800,000, hey have taken the unusual step of signing a message to Mr. Ismay expressing their

A Memorial Service to the late Mr. sympathy with the pain and loss cansed. T. Stead has been held in West- him by the disaster.

the boats.

ALLEGATIONS AGAINST A

QUARTERMASTER. Quartermaster Hitchens, who Was forcibly brought to Washington from New York where he was on board the Celtie, denied that he seized all the wraps and drank all the whisky on board the

HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE

AMERICAN INQUIRY. Lord Stanhope called attention in the House of Lords to the Americag 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 justification, this would strike at the root of the position of merchantmen in time of war, rendering nationality doubtful. Though relations with-America were so friendly as to make it impossible for an international question to arise, there was a certain feeling in Great Britain which was not ac forcibly worded as Anierican feeling would have been if the position were reversed.

Lord Morley deprecated the discussion and said undoubtedly any State might institute an enquiry into a foreign wreck whereby the lives of its subjects were lost,

minister, Chapel. The Rev. Dr. Clifford read messages of sympathy from Queen Alexandra, the Gaekwar of Baroda, General Boths, and other admirers in Johannesburg and Europe.

The congregation included Lord Esher, Lord Haldane, Lord Milner, Earl Grey, Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. John Burns, and Mr. Macnamara.

BODY RECOVERED.

The steamer Mackay Bennett has sent a wireless message that she has recovered the body of "bear."!

It is assumed that this is a telegraphic mutilation of." Stead."

GERMAN INVESTIGATION, Renter's correspondent at Berlin tele- graphs that the Kaiser bas ordered an immediate searching investigation with a view to the extension of life-saving appliances on passenger ships, the object

increased. This is true; and the conclusion he draws, that there has been no direct In spite of the many books that have been attempt to drive foreigners from Japan, is written about Japan and the general interest also equally sound. This last point is in- that is now taken in Japanese affairs, state-portant, because it is constantly being used ments are still being constantly made about to demonstrate the alleged "dog-in-the- that country which are not only misleading manger" attitude of the Japanese Govern but very often contrary to actual facts

A striking instance is given in More extraordinary still is the fact that paper by Mr. F. B. VROOMAN, read recently when these errors are pointed out the cor-before the Royal Colonial Institute. The rections are generally looked upon with paper dealt with the outlook in British more suspicion than the original statements. Columbia, which the lecturer holds is be It would seam that the public has been so coming Orientalised by the invasion of lopg regaled with stories of the perfection of Japanese, Chinese and East Indians. In the institutions, arts, industries and people view of the invasion of Chius and the East of Japan, that any attempt to break into Indies by large numbers of Westerners, the this dream is regarded as something similar lesturer's arguments could not very well be to an attack on religion. Recently the applied to those countries, so he limited Manchester Guardian published a reluctant himself to belabouring Japan, the Anglo- and balf-hearted confession that perhaps Japanese alliance and the unpatriotic manu. Japanese competition would not entirely|facturers and corporations of Canada which other reinstating Dr. M. Hansilha in that the water as he was a mile away from obvious that it should be exercised with cularised the Governments suggesting an ruin. British trade, that Japanese workers will have cheap labour at the price of were possibly not so skilled as was gene-Canadian hoinogeneity. Japan, according to rally imagined, that cheap labour was not

the lecturer, demands on the Western shores altogether cheap in the long run, and that, what she donics Westerners on her own at any rate, wages were rising rapidly in

lifeboat which he commanded. He had orders to pull towards a distant light, which he thought was a fishing schooner and he was also afraid of the auction

CHANGES AT MAÇÃO,

Two decrees were published in Lisbon, on the 20th of March, one cancelling the caused by the sinking of the Titanic appointment of Mr. M. T. da Rocha as He could not have rescued people from Colonial Secretary of Macao, and the

post.

Referring to Dr. Mansilha, a Lisbon paper states that he is an official who has rendered a great many services in the Colonies of Angola and Macio, and was dismissed by a degree of 29th May, 1911. found no reason at all for any disciplinary

their cries.

EVIDENCE BY MR. MARCONI. Mr. Marconi testified before the Senate Inquiry that he did not hear of the sink

Japan. These facts have again and again bean She denies all foreigners the right of land The Minister of the Colonies, having ing of the Titanic before the evening of

though he was not aware of any precedent. being to provide a basis for international No communications had been addressed regulations. to the United States or received from them. Alluding to the detention of wit- nesses, Lord Morley said auch powers

existed in most countries but it was

full consideration of the witnesses and also of the necessities of any enquiry at Home. They could act suppose that the Senate Committee would overlook that.

Lord Lansdowne said that though the procedure was unprecedented, it must be

step against him, but official documents the 15th inst. He did not suppress and reports that greatly honour him, has cancelled that decree, and so gives to Dr. messages from the Carpathia, nor did he remembered that the circumstances were receiving a reluctant acceptance. The fact white interest off the Continent of Asia; Mannilha the justice that is due to him authorise the sending of messages to the also unparalleled.

put forward by those who have studied tenure in Japan, but demands the right of Japanese to owt land in the West. Japan actual conditions in the country, but it would

is crowding every white man and every appear that it is only now that they are

she will not allow a foreigner to own or work a mine, or engage in fisheries in She will not tolerate Japanese waters, Western workmen on her soil, and resents

is that it is much easier to take a superfi eial and enthusiastic view of conditions, than it is to consider them fully in relation to all aides of the question. Further, extravagant

operators on the Carpathia offering sums and which he has been claiming for many months past.

Captain Sanches de Miranda, now en in four figures (dollars) to secure their route to Macao, is coming to take the exclusive stories for the Marconi Com-

of Mr. Machado, 80 Acting place

Governor.

pany.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE.

SUGGESTED.

The Government of Germany has cir-

International Conference with regard to life-saving appliances on ships.

LOCAL BENEFIT PERFORMANCE.

The Victoria Theatre was crowded last night on the occasion of the grand benefit performance given in aid of the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the Lord Halsbury emphasised that the loss of the 8.8. Titanic. The performance Was nader the patronage of H. E. the national character of a ship was no more technicality but a matter of supreme. E. Major General Anderson, and. Officer Administering the Government,

importance.

others.