NOT FOUL PLAY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19961, 20 November 1934, Page 8

NOT FOUL PLAY

SEQUEL TO LOSS OF LUXURY LINER REVELATIONS DURING COURT PROCEEDINGS United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, November 16. During an appeal of the insurers of the liner L’Atlantique against the verdict of the Lower Court, it was stated that detectives discovered that the electrical wiring of the liner was seriously defective. Evidence was given that four mysterious Englishmen cashed a large cheque at the British Bunk at Geneva, after which they crossed the frontier to Champigneulles, where they lived. M. Ferdinand Blanc, the French representative of the British company which supplied the gyroscopic automatic pilot to the Atlantique, disclosed reporting of the defective installation to his principals, but after the disaster he patriotically decided to remain silent, in order not to cast an aspersion on the French mercantile marine. Later, he declined to visit London in that connection, believing that the disaster was not due to foul play but to faulty installations.