SCOPE OF THE ENQUIRY.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14988, 8 June 1914, Page 7

SCOPE OF THE ENQUIRY.

Mil HOLMAN'S VIEWS.

(By Cable.—Press As«oc:ation.—Copyright.! bxDJsEY, June 6. Mr Holtnan, replying to tue Canadian resentment 01 his remarks regarding tho JSmpres* of Ireland disaster, maintained the view tuat the enquiry not to bo conrined to a fc»v unf oi lunate sea mo v or oincers, but ought to extend to those chief in responsibility. "Where commercial men agree," said Mr Holinan, "to send the public from Canada to Europe, and, as a matter of fact, send them from Canada to tho next world, that alone is sullicient ground lor putting those men on trial. 1 do not say they ought to bo conncted. If they can show, as they effusively assure their Press-backers, that the ship represented the last word in naval ;<rrhitecture, tiien a trial would not hurt them, but until they can show thut, the fact that the calamity occurred under tLeir direction to men and women who trusted themselves at their invitation, is a prima facie case against them." Mr Holman further upheld tho Cunard Company boast, "Wβ never loso a passenger or a letter," as an illustration of what naval skill can accomplish in securing the f>afety of tho travelling public, when those powers wero directed primarily to maintaining the public safety, and-not to inflating dividends.