PANIC ON THE EGYPT.
NATIVES RUSH ROUND DECK AFTER COLLISION.EVIDENCE AT INQUIRY. LONDON, July 31. At the inquiry into the loss of the steamer Egypt Alice Bryne, stewardess, said that she saw a boatload 1 of natives leaving the ship. They looked scared. “I suppose they'did not think it their duty to save the women,” the witness added. Mabel Evans, .a stewardess, described the natives rushing about the deck in all directions after the collision, panic stricken. She heard shots. Quartermaster Rusher said that he lowered a boat and tried to row towards the well deck to take off passengers, hut the natives would not row, and kept hacking away: Quartermaster Harvey said that he found his boat- full of natives. He ordered them out, but they were terrified, and he could not move them. Quartermaster Lissender said he saw no active interference-by natives with the passengers.—A. and N.Z. C.A. a
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Gisborne Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6452, 2 August 1922, Page 2
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