SAFETY AT SEA
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE.
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, April 16.
The first meeting of the International Conference on he Safety of Life at Sea opened this morning, at the Foreign Office. Delegates‘were present from thirteen foreign countries, and representatives from the League of Nations were also present. Sir. P. Cunliffe Lister, President of the Board of Trade, conveyed to the Conference a message from the King. In extending a cordial welcome to the delegates, His Majesty recalled the Conference which met in London over 15 years ago, and expressed pleasure* that so many countries which partici- . pated in that Conference were now once more united in co-operation in the great cause of safety of life at sea. Sir P. Cunliffe Lister, addressing the Conference, said: “The purpose of this Conference is to review the Conference of 1914; and we assemble almost on the anniversary of the Titanic disaster, which was the immediate cause of the last Conference. That Conference was of the greatest value. It was a novel and ambitious experiment, and sought to cover a wide field. Most of the questions affecting the safety of a passenger ship came within its purview. That Conference dispersed, and within six months came the cataclysm of the Great War; and now we are met again—all allies in the common cause of humanity; and the very experience of the war will be employed to aid in this pacific task. Much time and study have been devoted to the problems of construction, and provisional conclusions have been tested by actual application to new ships. Great developments have taken place in wireless telegraphy, wireless becoming, if it has not already become the most important element in the safety -of life at sea today. It not only ensures the greater safety of a ship which carries it, but it makes her a potential saviour of her sister ships. On these and other problems, you bring to bear the individual and collective experience which is unrivalled.”
On the proposal of Mr. Wallace Whitehead, of the United States delegation, Vice Admiral Sir H. Richmond, Chairman of the British Delegation, took the chair. Canada, Australia, and the Irish Free State are represented at the Conference. . The Australian delegates are Captains Feakes Davies, from the Australian Navy; T. A. Free, of Huddart Parker’s, repreesnting the Mercantile Marine.
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