MR ISMAY UNWELL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11341, 3 May 1912, Page 5

MR ISMAY UNWELL.

Received Friday, at '.).5."i a.m. NEW YORK, Thursday. Mr J. B. Ismay is suffering from nervous strain.

A big factor in the campaign of calumny against Mr Bruce Ismay and the officers of the Titanic is probably the bitter jealousy of the Americans against the many trans-Atlantic steamship linos. It is a very sore point with the people of New York, Boston and other great ports on tiie Atlantic seaboard of the United States, that of all the hundreds of big trausAtlautic liners, not more than half-a-dozen at the most fly the. American flag. British, German, French, Belgian, Dutch, Italian, Austrian, and even Spanish liners, from the 4.1,000----ton White Star liners down to comparatively small 8000-ton steamers, carry hundreds of thousands of passengers" to and from the United States ports across the Atlantic, white the American flag is conspicuous by its almost total absence. Every week the Now York people on the dock-sides see dozens of huge steamers flying foreign flags leave their great port for England aud Europe, while there are scarcely half-a-dozen, aud those of comparatively small size, iv which patriotic Americans can cross the Atlantic.