MISSING FRIENDS.
(Received June 1, 10.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, June 1. It is feared passengers lost m the Empress of Ireland include Mr Gabriel Marks, of the Suva firm of H. Marks and Co., and his wife, who were tonring. the world ; also possibly the father, mother, and brother . of Colonel McMillan of' the Salvation Army Training College, Melbourne. They had announced their intention of travelling to the London conference with the Canadian delegates. ' '■>... . According to advices received' at the Army headquarters the Salvationist death roll aboard the Empress of Ireland totals 130^ A cable from General Bramwell Booth states that !he has sent Commissioner McKie, Principal of the London Training Colleges, and formerty Commissioner m Australia and Sweden, to stand by the Canadian forces, to whom he pays a high tribute . for bravery. . SYDNEY, June 1. Mr Holman, the Premier, has cabled to Canada sympathy with the loss of the Empress of Ireland. Sympathetic reference to the disaster was made m -various churches of the Commonwealth.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13395, 1 June 1914, Page 3
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