UNITED STATES SENATE ENQUIRY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 95, 22 April 1912, Page 7

UNITED STATES SENATE ENQUIRY.

COMMITTEE "BRUTALLY UNFAIR." MR. BRUCE ISMAY'S EVIDENCE. SPEED OF TITANIC WHEN DISASTER OCCURRED. NEW^ORK, 20th April. The enquiry ordered by the Senate's Merchant Marine Committee into the circumstances attending tho disaster hus been opened. Mr. J. B. Ismay, managing director of the White Star Company, stated that he was atleep at the time the Titanic struck. The Titanic was not pushed to her spjfd limit, bujt_ a^erafced about

twenty-one knots an hour. He only once consulted the captain about the veesel's movements, when it was arranged that they should not attompt to reach New York before 5 o'clock on Wednesday morning. He only entered a boat when there was no response to the call for Y«>m«n. Ho left about an hour after the collision. Mr. Ismay said he believed the ship was struck between the bow ajid th« bridge. SOUTHERNMOST TRACK FOLLOWED. (Received April 22, 8.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, 21st April. The Senate's Committee re-examined Mr. Bruce lemay and tho Titanic* officers, who gave evidence that thft vessel followed strictly the southernmost track for westbound boats and encoun* tered no ice previously. The «teamcr was proceeding, with vigilant look-oute, at full speed, but on. a reduced coal consumption, probably averaging twontyon* to twenty-two knots.