THIS DAYS CABLES

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIV, Issue 25, 19 April 1912, Page 5

THIS DAYS CABLES

THREE LINERS ARRIVE TO TELL THEIR TALE. HUGE ICEBERCS AFLOAT. (Received April 19, 8.5 a.m.) EPALIFAX (Nova Scotia), April 18. The Parisian has arrived. The captain reports that he received no ttews of the Titanic, except a secondhand call for help, which lie had not heard. ST. JOHNS, April 18. The Allan liner Carthaginian lias .arrived. She lay two days in thick fog off Cape Race, and wirelessly intercepted bulletins respecting the disaster, but had no details. NEW YORK, April 18. The steamer La Bretagne reports seeing huge icebergs, and forty bears were observed clinging to the surface of the ice. THE SUPPLY OF DAVITS. (Received April 19, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, April 18. Mr. Carlisle states that when making the design of the Olympic and Tirtanic, he suggested a special davit providing for forty boats. Those •davits were fitted on. The Board of 'Trade required sixteen, but twenty were supplied. - '