THE LOST TITANIC
FURTHER EVIDENCE AT THE INQUIRY.
LONDON, June 7
The Commission appointed under the presidency of Lord Mersey to inquire on behalf of the Board of Trade_ into the Titanic disaster, continued its examination of witnesses to-day. Mouge, assistant chef on the Titanic, stated that large number? of third-class passengers were aroused by the alarm bell and went on deck. Sixty members of the orestaurant staff were prevented from going, on deck by' the stewards, and were drowned. Replying to Lord Mersey, witness said that two or three stewards kept them back. Mr Wilding, naval constructor at Harland and Wolff’s yards, Belfast, said’ he believed the ship would have been saved if she had not been starboarded. She then struck end on, crumpling up for 100 ft of her length and killing all who were forward, while the afterpart remained afloat.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8143, 10 June 1912, Page 7
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