THE EGYPT.
NAUTICAL ENQUIRY.
BEHAVIOUR OF THE LASCARS
(A. and N.Z. Cable.) (Received 1.10 a.m.) f LONDON, July 31
At the' inquiry into the loss of the Egypt Alice Byrne, stewardess, said she saw a boatload of natives leaving the ship. They looked scared. "I suppose they did not think it their duty to save the women,” she added. Mabel Evans, stewardess, described the natives rushing about the decks in all directions after the collision, panic-striken. She heard shots fired.
Quartermaster Rusher said he lowered a boat and tried to row towards the well deck to- take off the passengers, but the natives would not row. They kept backing the boat away. Quartermaster Harvey said he found his boat full of natives. He ordered them out but they were terrified and he could not move them.
Quartermaster Lishender said he saw no active interference by the natives with the passengers.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15627, 1 August 1922, Page 5
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