THE TITANIC.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 118, 16 May 1912, Page 5

THE TITANIC.

i A GENEROUS, ENDOWMENT

| MEMORIAL TO THE CREW. .' ' [PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 [..'.'.- LONDON, May 14. > Mr Isniay and his wife are provid- . ing an endowment fund for 11,000 pensions for disabled seamen, and 'widows of the victims, as a memorial >to the heroism of the Titanic's crew. i ■' ■ ■_ 1 EVIDENCE AT THE INQUIRY. / LONDON, May 14. , ; The captain of the Caiifornian de- | posed that he was trying to converse i by means of Morse lamp signals with I unknown signals apparently between him and the Titanic. 'He was certain that it wa3 her white rockets that ' wevo seen, and not distress signals. ; Sue was.six miles off. He did. not believe it wr.s the Titanic; 110 admitted, that if the Marconi operator had been aroused when the rockets lwere seen they would have picked up. the Titanic's messages. \ ,' Gibson, an apprentice,, gave evidence that Stone, the second officer, looked through his glasses and reported that the vessel had a heavy list. Lord Mersey sharply examined

Stone, who-denied Gibson's statement, and asserted that he only thought they might have been distress signals after he heard of the disaster.