THE TITANIC.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143770, 19 April 1912, Page 3

THE TITANIC.

A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE. NO NEWS FROM THE CARPATHIA. MOR2 NEWSPAPER INVENTIONS. By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright. LONDON, April 18. Strong comments aro made relative to the false and misleading litanic nows emanating from America. The Times says that the origin of the various accounts demands investigation. The White Star Company state that they did not receive any message from the Titanic. The erroneous news was the work of irresponsible and imaginative persons. Mr. Carlisle declares that the boat accommodation on the Titanic was inadequate. It was a difficult problem to find boat room in modern mammoths.

The passengers included Mr. Thomas Pears (soap-maker), Mr. Parsons (cxCongressman), Mr. Warren (ex-Sena-tor), and Professor Hoyt (Professor of Law at Washington University). Mr. Hayes’ rescue is not confirmed. The novelist Frutellc was rescued.

The King, in a message to President Taft, deplored the terrible loss of subjects of countries so intimately allied by ties of friendship and brotherhood. President Taft replied that the appalling disaster had brought both countries into a community of grief through common bereavement. Americans share the sorrow of their kinsmen beyond the seas.

All the European courts have tendered their sympathy.

Tho Tunisian was twenty-four hours in the ice. Two hundred icebergs were seen. The vessel stopped at night, and sent i wireless message to the Titanic at midnight on Saturday. The Mansion House fund is already £6OOO. Tho King gave 500 guineas, and the Queen 250 guineas. The Shipping Federation has given £2OOO to the Southampton fund. The Daily Mail specially appeals to women on behalf of the Titanic’s seamen, who died to save women. NEW YORK, April 18.

Mr. Astor’s son has chartered a steamer to search for his father's body. The steamer Mackay Bennet has left Halifax with undertakers and clergymen on board to perform funeral rites. The cruiser Chester is now repeating wireless messages from the Carpathia. The safety of all the women and children is assured.

The Senate adopted a resolution demanding a comprehensive investigation into the disaster. Some of the survivors will be immediately summoned to Washington to give evidence regarding the inability of the officers to save the lives of all on board. A Bill has been introduced in the Senate prohibiting liners entering or clearing from United States ports without sufficient apparatus to accommodate all the passengers. The Bill has been referred to tho Merchant Marino Committee. Tho chairman stated that evidently lifeboats took up too ranch room, and companies wore chasing "the almighty dollar.” The yellow press hotly attacks the White Star management, and criticises the regulations of the English authorities.

The steamship owners bitterly resent the comments, and cast the blame on those demanding luxuries which encroach upon the lifeboat space. The steamship America warned the Titanic of icebergs a few minutes before she struck.

THE LACK OF BOATS. (Received April 19, 8. 5 a.m.) LONDON, April 18. Mr. Carlisle states that when making the design for the Olympic and Titanic he suggested special davits and the provision of forty boats. Those davits were fitted. The Board of Trade required sixteen boats and only twenty were supplied not forty as he had advised. REPORTS OF VARIOUS SHIPS. (Received April 19, 8. 5 a.m.) HALIFAX, April 18. The Parisian has arrived. The captain reports that he received no news of the Titanic except second hand. The call for help was not heard. (Received April 19, 8.5 a.m.) ST. JOHNS, April 18. The Allan Liner Carthaginian arrived. She lay two day’s in a thick fog off Cape Race and wirelessly intercepted bulletins respecting tho disaster, but heard no details. NEAV YORK, April 18. The steamship La Bretagne eports huge icebergs in latitude 40 degrees. Bears were seen clinging to the surface. STORIES PROBABLY FALSE. (Received April 19, 11.25 a.m.) NEAV YORK, April IS. The newspapers print stories purporting to be the latest wireless news from tho Carpathia.

These state that tho Titanic buckled amidships. Ladies in evening gowns were bundled into tho boats, not believing there was any danger, hut that when the danger was apprehended a panic, ensued. Scores of injured persons are reported to ho among those rescued by the Carpathia, many being nearly insane. United States warships sent to secure news from tho Carpathia were unable to secure any reply. The Navy De partment believes that orders were given on Lho Carpathia not to answer any queries. Mr. Bruce Ismay is believed to have used his influence to prevent the transmission of nows. Pathetic scones continue outside the New York offices of tho White Star Company. THE CARPATHIA SILENT. NO FURTHER NEWS. (Received April 19, 0.40 a.m.) LONDON, April IS. Amongst those .saved from the Titanic are Mosdamcs C. Stone and F. J, Swift, society women, C. E. Stengel, racehorse owner, Margaret Graham, Californian actress, Thomas Cardoza, of Rio-de-Janicro and New York, P. Maresehal, of Washington, Colonel Archibald Grade, IV. T. Sloper, of Seattle, Master Harry Widcnor, T. F. Thayer, railway official, J. and Mrs. Snyder, of New York. Among those missing aro James Carlton Young, of Minneapolis, George Eastman, Colonel May, Professor J. H. Ross, of Wisconsin, and the following. New York residents: Mrs. Ettlinger, Mrs. Figler, and Miss Eustace. The White Star Company officially states that the Titanic was equipped with life-saving appliances for all passengers, and the boat accommodation was in excess of tho Board of Trade requirements. New York is mystified at the silence of the officials of the steamier Carpathia as to how the Titanic sank. Even a request by President Taft was unanswered. BRITISH RELIEF FUND. POSITION OF BOARD OF TRADE. (Received April 19, 1 p.m.) LONDON, April 18. English subscriptions to the Titanic fund exceeded .£30,000 this afternoon. Tho White Star Company has forwarded a thousand guineas to the Lord Mayor of Liverpool’s fund. Many theatrical and operatic performances are being arranged.

Mr. Buxton, President of the Board of Trade, in the House of Commons, said tno rules for life-saving on British ships have uot been revised since 1804. The Board of Trade in 1011 asked the advisory committee of the Merchant Shipping Guild to report on the matter. It had never been the policy of the Board of Trade that vessels well equipped with watertight compartments should necessarily carry lileboats to accommodate all on board. The Titanic carried boats for 1178 people, also 49 lifeboats. She was certified to carry 3500 passengers and crew, and actually carried 2208. Ho suggested an inquiry as to whether vessels should he forbidden to take the northern Atlantic route in the spring. There was uot power to stop racing. AUSTRALIAN MESSAGES. (Received April 19, 1.0 p.m.) LONDON, April 18. Lord Denman’s condolences cm behalf of the people of Australia, also the message of the New South Wales Government have been published. MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY. Pei Press Association. HASTINGS, April 18. At a mooting of the Chamber of Commerce this afternoon the president, Mr. E. H. Williams, referred to the loss of the Titanic. The following resolution was carried, the members standing: That this meeting desires to express its deep sympathy with the relatives of those lost on the Titanic, and places on record its admiration of the gallant conduct of the officers, men and passengers of the ill-fated vessel; and that a copy of the resolution be sent to the agents of tho White Star Company in New Zealand. MASTERTON, April 18. At a public meeting held here tonight a resolution was carried expressing sorrow and regret at the overwhelming disaster which has befallen the peoples of England and America in the wreck of the Titanic, and deep sympathy with the relatives of the victims. NAPIER, April IS. The Napier Borough Council to-nighC passed a motion expressing the deepest grief at the wreck of the Titanic, and extending sympathy to the friends, families and relatives of those who. have been drowned, and high appreciation of the conduct of the officers, crew and passengers, who bo nobly sacrificed their lives to save the women and children. PALMERSTON N.. April 18. At Mr. J. A. Nash’s Mayoral election meeting at Terrace End to-night, Mr. Nash moved the following resolution, which was carried, tho audience standing: “That this meeting expresses profound and deep sympathy with the relatives of the passengers and crew of the Titanic in the sad and deplorable disaster resulting in tho loss of so many lives; also its admiral.inn of the gallantry of the officers and men in sacrificing their lives to save the women and children.” APPEAL TO SEAMEN. ROTORUA. April IS. Air. Havelock Wilson, general secretary of the National Sailors and Fircmen’s Union of Groat Britain and Ireland. who is visiting RoLnnm, has mint the following cablegram to tho secretary

of the union, London: “I appeal to the seamen of tho world to give two days’ pay each to the relatives of the sailors, firemen, cooks and stewards of the Titanic. I give £lO, and will rusk the seamen of New Zealand and Australia.” This appeal will be sentto every maritime nation in the world, as tho English Union is federated to the National Union, A LUCKY ESCAPE. CHRISTCHURCH., April 18. Among tho very few who haul providential escapes from tho Titanic tragedy is Mr. J. A. Frostiok, of Skelton, Frostick and Co., Christchurch. Mr. Frostick is at the present time on an extended tour abroad. It was his intention, after visiting England, to go across to the States. He booked a passage by the Titanic, but on account of business engagements cancelled it. When tho news first came to hand that tho big liner had foundered it was thought by Mr. Frostiek’s relatives and friends here that he was on board. Yesterday, however, there eavno a reassuring cable from Mr. Frostick himself, from London, stating that he had found it necessary to wait- for another boat; and so he missed the tragedy. The receipt of this cablegram came quite as a relief to, those closely associated with Mr. Frostick. A NEW PLYMOUTH RESOLUTION. At a special meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council last, night thefollowing resolution was carried: “That the New Plymouth Borough Council expresses its sincere sympathy with those bereaved by the appalling calamity caused by the wreck of the Titanic, and also places on record its deep admiration of the manner in which officers and men upheld the best traditions of the British race in giving the women and children tho first chance of rescue ; and that a copy of the resolution bo forwarded to the Prime Minister for transmission to the proper authorities.”