DISOBEYED ORDERS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10998, 22 November 1928, Page 6

DISOBEYED ORDERS

CREW OF THE YESTRTS. (Received 10.,5 a.m.) United Press Assn—Bv Electric Telegraph—Convrieht, NEW YORK November 21. When Tuttle's \ estris enquiry was resumed a definite course, of action was derided upon at live, suggestion ol the British naval expert Captain Joseph AleConkev, namely, fins! limy the former captain of I hr Vestris bo called arid ; soeqiul. that Oommission,-i-i O Neill and two naval experts inspect the steamship Yaulban which is a, sister ship of the Vestris; third, that three main points bc> answered : (I) to determine the actual cause of the 'sinking; (2) t, 0 , determine the actual cause o’ the lons el life; and (■lt to determine the cause |f>r the delay in sending an S.O.S. 1 he hearing then proceeded along these lines. First-Officer Jniuistmr recalled, said that the, members of the crow refused some of his orders just, prior to the disaster .and that some were not at their pod,. of clutv when the lifeboat order was given. But; lie added: “I was still able to control my men however.”