TITANIC DISASTER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 97, 24 April 1912, Page 7

TITANIC DISASTER.

SEARCHING ENQUIRY POINTED QUESTIONS BY COMMITTEE TALK OF BOYCOTTING SAVED MEN WOMEN HAD TO BE COAXED INTO BOATS. MALE PASSENGERS GO BACK TO BED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyrltht. (Received April 24, 8.20 a.m.) LONDON, 23rd April. The Daily News New York correspondent states that the Senate's Committee •of Enquiry intends enquiring: — Whether the Titanic'e officers disregarded tho repeated warnings about th« icebergs. Whether it was unavoidable that a hundred women perished. Why the Whits Star Company was ignorant of the disaster' until the evening, though the steamers Baltic and Olympic knew details of tho wreck at noon. Why a Marconi official wirelessed to the operators on the Oarpathia on Thursday : " Say nothing ; hold your etory for dollars in four figures. " The correspondent adds that there is some talk of a club boycott of the- men who left the ship while women were aboard; but it is difficult to criticise these men when boat after boat was lowered partly filled, and nine out of every ten passengers for an hour and ahalf believed that the Titanic was unsinkable, and deliberately refused to enter the earlier boats. (Received April 24, 8.20 a.m.) LONDON, 23rd April. Steward Nichols states that half the men passengers went bact to bed threequarters of an hour after the collision. He saw a passenger using the punching ball in the gymnasium. The women, he said, had to be coaxed to enter the boats. Mr. Peter Daly, a ftvst saloon paesenger, states that Captain Smith, ran to the railing calling to bring the boats back which, were only half filled. The Hoffmann children are eons of a, Nice tailor. The mother assorts that the 1 father kidnapped the children a month ago and disappeared from London. A SENATOR'S IGNORANCE. (Received April 24, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, 23rd April. The Times calls attention to the ignorance of Senator Smith, chairman of the Enquiry Committee, in asking Mr. Lightoiler, the second officer of the Titanic, whether watertight compartments were intended as a refuge for passengers.