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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 la 'tory of King George's reign.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1935.

with the stuff next morning. Que took a piece for his glass of whisky. Within a short space 1.400 people were to die, many in agony, but Ithough the wound had alrendy been suffered, they didn't know It: E night when the Titanic and those few who knew it behaved, was beautiful. The on the whole, fuely, if at times stars shone down from a sky with- mlaguidedly. out cloud on a sen that was still: It was for these reasons-lack of no wind ruffled it, no mist shroud-panic, confidence in the unsinkable ed it. But it was dark, moonless.ship, reluctance to part from rein- The time was 20 minutes short of tives or baggage, want of exact midnight. The ship was doing 22 knowledge, and water that was 65 vant knots through the North Atlantic feet below them, that a where the presence of icebergs was number of passengers never left suspected.

the vessel: bout's sailed away half Indeed, three hours before, Cap-fall; and those who went in beats tain Ernest Smith, grey-beariled that were full thought all were and old in knowledge of the sea, javed, 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 pair, fear and distress when, during the day, neverni warnings finally, the Titanic sank. had been received by Marconi from other ships.

The man in the crow's-nest ind

NO ROOM for all

Although the vessel carried in all been told to keep a very sharp look-2,201 passengers and crow, her 20 out. But speed was not reduced. Boats would, at beat, hold only After all, it was the ship's maiden 1,178: nor had any adequate bont voyage, she was called "unsinkable" drill taken place. Not all the crew millionaires and multi-milliontres in fact knew which were their were on board; no was Mr. Brucents.

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Ismay, managing director of the Disorganisation was inevitable: company owning her. No recurvertheless, 20 minutes after the was being sought: Captain Smith's collision it was realised the ship behaviour was normal, although Jeould not live, and five minutes ne we now see-risks.

Fluter still boats began to be un- To the music of a fashionable covered, spasmodically at first be Viennese waltz dancing went on. eause the crew were slow to muster. men and women were engaged Ja

Meanwhile stewards were half- bridge and poker; many read or jokingly rousing passengers, help had gone to bed; in the steerage ing them on with febelts emigrant women from Sweden, urging them

and the hinterland of Some, incredulous, rolled over and Europe-500 altogether couldn't went to sleep again, a man who speak English-- hushed their babies amashed open a jammed deur wats to sleep. A handful of Chinese tohl by an frate steward he would played fan-tan.

I arrested in New York, couples The world's most majestic aut introllet up and down the deck is vessel. man's triumph, the litter night nir wondering steamed, ablaze with lights, across irritably when the bother was go an intensely cold but untroubleding to be over, and officers directed Less than ten miles away Inquirers to their butts 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, It is said that men still rode the nwchanical horses and bicycles and pulled oars, not heroically, but to

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encountered an icefield,

ICEBERG SEEN

This photograph shows Mr. and Mrs. Francis Rationbury, a name which has become familiar in another English murder case. Mr. Rattenbury, an architect, who was formerly resident of Victoris, Canada, where he designed many prominent buildings, was found in the living room of his home near London with serious hand injuries. He had been struck repeatedly with a heavy mallet and died four days later. Police arrested Mrs. Ruttenbury, who 31, and her 19-your-old chauffeur, George Stoner, and charged them with murder. Mr. and Mrs. Rattenbury are shown with their son. John, now six youre old.

women itsed the vars.

AWFUL LOSSES

Of those saved in them 394 were women and children, 129 men and 189 crew, Sixty-two per cent, of the first-class were saved, only 25

per cent, of the third,

rocket hissed into the night and exploded, the band played on-airs to which London and New York were gaily pirouetting.

er time after time,

Two hours later the Carpathia arrived,

Slowly the Titanic began to dipi When dawn broke it was her heade as if in homage to Fate.beautiful as the night-soft and Her stern lifted until she stood quiet and Inying a rosy tint on the vertical in the air like some fan-host of bergs and smaller floes that

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At the tst moment a great ruchtastic, misshapen column, while the studded the smooth sen of emigrants filled the boat derk: onlookers heard the most fearful,

About this time the Californian, noise. It was for the first time ugly scenes took heart-rending

and having fearned the truth at last, place. An officer in a crowded bout though all the machinery had to fire his revolver to prevent ruckery in the world had fallen arrived at full speed. its being overlonded.

Million-

downstairs.

The bonts-drew away.

Mingled with but unheard aires like J. J. Astor, Benjamin that din of engines leaving their

awful shrieks

and Guggenheim. G. O. Widener, and clamps were Isklor Straus, and the famous, likeries which became penetrating as the ship"stood for two or three W. T. Steari.

behind, were left

now frenzied. | minotes upended and poised, and together with the gabbling but not understood peons were, mercifully, swiftly silenced as of Mid-Europe. Colonel Astor had the thousand and more people persuaded his young wife to enter jentered the icy waters.

bont; Mrs. Straus had said, with a calm face, she would stay with her husband,

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The band played till almost the lust the engineers remained | duty, so did the offleurs left

board. The new 50S call was sparking

Capt. Smith swimming. At 11.40 pam, the louk-out man pass the time.) on the Titanic

out. Neuman who tried to take placed a child in a boat and him-1 struck his

The first rocket fired from the gong

On one piece of Was

the operator's lifebelt had his skull self turned away. it. three times the signal of an ob-deck startled everyone. jeet ahead-and A moment later then, as grave as that? But consplit with a crowbar, lights still wreckage men stood back to back telephoned that he saw an iceberg, paratively few on board saw the blazed, kept going by engineers in afraid to stir lest they should over-

the ship's bowels, an

balance, repenting the Lord's Pray- 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 its

Full spred astern."

significance, signalled back iz At the same time he pulled the Morse, received no nnswer-and did lever which closed the watertight | nothing.

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doors in the engine-room. As The presence, the fruitless pre- those doors shut, the ship, a sixthsence, of the Californian, intact of a mile long. collided with an and with the power of a saviour, is iceberg towering high out of the the chiefest irony in a water.

The blow was glancing. of 10 secunda' duration, and although it was enough to flood five compart ments and to sink the ship within three hours, the shock and vibras tion were slight slight that few except the officers and stokers were alarmed. No panic ensued, no shouts disturbed the night.

disaster

that never nght to have happened. The Californian's wireless operator had gone to bed ten minutes too soon. The Titanic's urgent and. presently, frantic messages for help Were picked up hundreds of miler away half an hour's journey dis- tant they were unknown,

Regularly at five or ten-minutes intervals bouts left the Titanic.

For R while enrd-playing ena Notwithstanding that in some in- tinued, the band didn't stop; men stances, women were put in boats by who found small pieces of ice arturce. several boats were half snow littering the forward deck empty, many were without biscuits) jokingly arranged to have matches or water; one se undermanned that)

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