EGYPT INQUIRY.
FURTHER EVIDENCE ABOUT
LASCARS.
(Received August 1, 1 p.m.)
LONDON, 31st July.
Giving evidence' at tho inquiry into the loss'of the liner Egypt, Alice Byrne, a stewardess, said sho saw boat-loads of natives leaving the ship. "They looked scared. I Buppoae they did not think it their duty to save tho lives of
the women." Mabel Evans, stewardess, described, the natives as rushing about the deck in ail. directions after the collision, panic-stricken: She heard shots. 'Quartermaster Rusher said he lowered a boat and tried to row it towards the well-deck to take off passengers, but the natives .would not row and, kept backing away. Quartermaster Harvey said he found his boat full of natives, and ordered them out, but they were terrified and he could not move them. Quartermaster Lissender said there was no active interference by the natives with the passengers. ■ ■ -, ■
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1922, Page 8
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