KING GEORGE'S MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT TAFT
SPECIAL APPEAL FOR SEAMEN'S WIDOWS. LONDON. 18th April. King George despatched a* message to President Taft, deploring "the terrible loss of subjects of countries so intimately allied by the ties of friendship and brotherhood." President Taft replied : "This appalling disaster has brought both_ countries into the community 6f grief through a common bereavement. Americans chare the sorrow of their kinsmen beyond the seas." All European Courts have tendered sympathy with those bereaved by tho wreck. The King gave 500 guineas and Queen Mary 250 to the Mansion House Fund. The Shipping Federation has given £2000 to the Southampton fund. The Daily Mail specially appeals to women on behalf or widows and children of the Titanic's seamen who died to save women. NEW YORK, 18th April. A relief fund has been opened here.' t SYDNEY, 19th April. The Governor-General has cabled to the Secretary of State for the Colonies conveying Australia's condolences on the loss of the Titanic.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 93, 19 April 1912, Page 7
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