CULPABILITY OF SHIPPING COMPANIES.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13448, 2 June 1914, Page 5

CULPABILITY OF SHIPPING COMPANIES.

MR. HOLMAN'S VIEW

(Received June 1, 9.45 p.m.)

Sydney, June 1

Sir1 Ronald Munro-Ferguson, Govern-or-General, and the State Governor have cabled their sympathy to Canada.

Mr. Holman', referring to the disaster, said he supposed the inquiry would end in the condemnation of some unfortunate second " mate or seaman. There would be no safety for the travelling public until the directors of companies which sent 1500 people to sea in a ship capable of destruction in fifteen minutes were put upon their trial as accessories to manslaughter. He hoped the Canadian Government would deal with the calamity in that spirit. The disaster may have been a mere act of God, but if it was due to human failing the people who make money by gambling in human lives ought to be punished.