FRANCE AND MOROCCO.
THE EXECRATED SULTAN
Fez, June 7
The situation has improved. The Sultan will proceed to Rabat, the tribes accepting the French offer of pardon. The “Times’ ” Tangier correspondent says that the Sultan has been in daily fear of assassination, which has resulted in a nervous breakdown. The march to the coast will be a severe ordeal. The tribes detest him as a puppet of the very Power against whom he proclaimed a holywar in order to usurp the throne. The French troops now alone protect him from being torn to pieces by his infuriated countrymen.
ASSISTANT STEWARD’S EVIDENCE.
(Received 8, 1.40 p.m.)
London, June 7.
Mouge, assistant chief steward of the Titanic testified that large numbers of third class passengers who were aroused by the alarm bell went on deck. Sixty members of the restaurant staff were prevented from going on deck by the stewards and were drowned.
Replying to Lord Mersey, witness said two or three stewards kept them back.
Mr. Wilding, naval constructor of Wolfs, believed that the ship could have been saved. Had not the helm been put to starboard she -would have struck the berg end on crumpling up for a hundred feet and killing all forward. The after part, however, would have remained afloat.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 148, 8 June 1912, Page 5
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