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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN. MONDAY, APRIL 22, THE JLOSS OF THE TITANIC. THE EARLY UNTRUE REPORTS. SENATE INQUIRY. domesio one here in a way impossible among the scattered and international community of passengers.

It was nt mud the Olympic reached Plvuiouth on utuida.v that members to leave for in spite of his desire I to leturu immediately. Mr. Smith" said this morning that it was the intention of thej Committee to Mr. "Imiuiv fur tho! purpose of eJearintr un several of tho crew got the list of the saved, so that wuce Monday mujiy men v.vro in a pamtul doubt us the widows of Southampton. The Olympic was berthed at two o'clock this morning, and most of the crew rushed home at once, eager to talk over the disaster in their homes.

Wheu 1 arrived a thiu stream of passengers were entraining for London, and there was a group of Italian emigrants looking curiously desolate in a sort of pen waiting to be told where to go. I found the mighty ship almost deserted by officers and passengers. I learned Utat Olympic's bhare iu the tragic events of the week was much as follows. At. midnight, on Suuday, or thereabouts, her wiiele.vi operator d- iphered the frantic cull tor help from the Titanic.

Ac once she put about and headed for tho place. Her stokers heard what had happened, and worked like niggers. She went ahead north-west at 3 knots an hour, and then, some time on Mondav evening. heanl rom lho Caruatllia all the boats and all tho onxaihle snrvivors had been picaeu up. itemising mat no more couiu tic to mmlv ii i i xi -vi i Mippi real information his evidence was done, the Olvmpio returned to her proper; muv.i.e was course, and she he.s arrived here hours I required.

it appears that ho late. ihad of the laum-him' of th THE MOURNING AT SOUTHAMPTON. STRIKING SERMON BY THE MSHOP. THE SISTER SHIP IN PORT. FBOM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) Southampton Scxdat.

The town's sorrow found beautiful and simple expression to-day in the memorial service held in the mother church of St. Mary, the grey church, with the warm, red tiles, down by the harbour. Tho Mayor and Corporation waaireci to the church in state througn xaoi sad, bright streets. Tho silver oar, the MM signia of the Mayor as admiral of the port, 7 was covered in crape and carried before hian. Then came tho aldermen in scarlet cloaks and a long train of people representing the public life of Southampton, the foreign Consuls, and then the neat ranks of the officers and bluejackets of the ships now lying in port.

The Marquis of Winchester, the Lord Lieutenant of the county, attended the service as the King's representative. Tho church was filled with about six hundred of the relatives of the dead. Widows' weeds were seen in most of the pews. Soft funeral music sounded as tho procession of clergy and choristers moved up the aisle. After the Bishop of Winchester's sermon the Burial Service was read, and at the end came a long silence, broken when people wept.

The Sermon. The Bishop's sermon was eloquent and imaginative. He spoke of the heroism of the dead, of the unthinkable agonies that must have come before the end, and theu, with the words But we must not feed ourselves with horrors," he turned to the other side. With Thy majestic consolation sweeten our suffering." Then, with an abrupt change, he delivered with passionate emphasis this passage it made a great impress km When has such a mighty lesson against our confidence and trust in power, machinery, and money been shot through the nation? How could the cruel and wanton waste of money, which is needed on every hand for tho bettering of life and for tho help of need, port L'-hlhr that when tho 1U lrtwored the deck was 70ft. alwvo tbe L-vel of the water.

By the camo to ihe Li: hoiwvor, tho deck i -fl -i i m- do, and we resumed our course. A week before the Titanic sank the Olympic- passed over the very spot, or a few mile, north of it. in bright daylight. Wo never saw a particle of ice of any description, and from the bridge of tho Olympic we could see about mile on cither side. Tho observations iu that locality were perfect.

There was no iign of ice. That is the tragedy of tho thing. The held ice must have been travelling south far more rapidly than on any occasion I can tc-momber." Tho Olympic's passengers did not hear or i the disaster until tho Mondav. A collection was made for the survivors, to which all ihej firemen contributed a day's pay. The first- class passengers collected 00.

Aitogetner was raiseu. lne snip a place or inourmnp; above and below decks. There was I no music on board for the rest of the trip. Extra Boats for the Twin Ship. nnea we pu-Keu up xne iiiaiucs sage," Captain Haddock told me.

"wo wore: about 605 miles awav. We steamed towards! her for fourteen hours before we picked upj the Carpathia's siguals. When io heard her we know there was nothing we t-ould i As I made a tour of this huge, empty hotel a blower. Then a terrific" viust up I found on tho top deck the men busy hauling through the blower, probably due" to 1 lv-fresh collapsible bonis on board. The imme-j bolIer oxP1xling- Ho was blown ch-ar.

and diate effect of the sinking of the Titanic is H-'tT "Ji" hat" 1 ..1. i assistant wirelos. vou u.ra "iinip win in lu.uiu ran. a.i.mi.iiwialr or tfio 1 Hanii-. whose foot v.pr.

I II and the real wickedness of what our loading equipment as the Titanic namely, 16 life-newspaper calls 'luxury or and; boats and four rafts. It is evident that no the senseless hurry of competition-how could morp risks are fo feo whatever the BRUCE ISMAY. FORBIDDEN TO LEAVE FOR ENGLAND. COMPLAINS OF BRUTAL UNFAIRNESS." (From a Correspondent.) New York, souiv. A great deal of sympathy is expressed with Mr.

Bruce Ismay in the very trying ordeal that he has been put through already by the Senate Committee. I understand that the inquiry will be prolonged and that the scene will be changed to Washington, when several of the more prominent passengers will be required to give their testimony. Among other notable passengers who will be subpoenaed are Mrs. Astor, who will go to Washington as soon as her condition permits, Major Arthur Penchen, Dr. Washington Dodge, Mr.

Lawrence Beesley, and Mr. Robert Daniel. Some fifty witnesses in all will be examined. Senator Smith, the chairman of the Investigating Committee, has made the announcement that the evidence gathered at the inquiry will be placed at the disposal of the authorities for their use in case criminal prosecutions of those responsible are decided upon, Mr. Ismay feels that the inquiry is not being conducted in a fair manner, since his counsel is not allowed to question him in tho way of cross-examination, which would bring out some explanation on certain points upon which the Committee have insisted upon bare answers being given.

These answers without any explanation have led to misunderstandings which tell more hardly against Mr. Ismay and his company than should be the case. He will therefore make an appeal when the inquiry is shifted to Washington for more latitude and the privilege of being represented in an active capacity by counsel. He emphatically declares that he has nothing whatever to conceal, and that he is not only willing but anxious to give all the facts in his possession and to assist the inquiry in every way possible, but the one-sided manner in which the Committee is conducting the inquiry, Mr. Ismay declares, is not calculated to bring out the truth but leans too much to prejudice.

It has become evident through the survivors' stories that many of the lost might have been saved had they themselves not been so optimistic. It is true that the great ship did not possess enough boat accommodation, but it has also been shown that quite 150 more could have been accommodated in the boats at the liner's disposal. Yesterday, on the Lapland, of the Red Star line, 180 of the survivors of the Titanic's crew sailed for England. It was thought at first that all could go, and four of the officers and the bulk of the crew went aboard the Lapland. The Sergeant-at-Aims of the Senate, who is acting for the Investigating Committee, boarded the Lapland before the vessel sailed and took off these officers and eleven of the crew who had not previously been detained, and they are being held to give testimony at the inquiry.

After the Lapland had sailed it was discovered that Robert Hichens, one of the Titanic's quartermasters, was still aboard the Red Star liner, and he was ordered by a wireless message to come back on the pilot boat. The Postal Clerks' Devotion. One of the brave acts that up to now has been missed in the various stories given by survivors is that of the postal clerks who were on the Titanic. There were five of them, three Americans and two Englishmen. The last were Iago Smith and Edward Williamson.

When it was deemed impossible for the ship to remain afloat these five clerks, pressing stewards into their service, laboured earnestly to get their more precious mail sacks on deck read' for transhipment. By hard work they managed to get practically all the sacks containing registered letters, some 250 or more in number, on the deck, and every one of the five had descended to tho mail room for further loads when the ship sank and all were lost while striving to do their dutv. Further survivors' stories are being told. One lady tells a story of a man who was disguised as a woman with a skirt and veil and made his way into one of the lifeboats to be discovered too late to be ordered back. Another tells about Miss Edith Evans, who, after taking her place in a lifeboat, discovered her aunt on the dock and insisted upon tho latter taking her place in the crowded boat because, said she, "You are married and have children, and I am not married and mv life does not New light is thrown upon the end of Mr.

Guggenheim. It seems that Etches, the bedroom steward who served Mr. Guggenheim, awoke that gentleman and his secretary and assisted them into warm clothing and lifebelts. Some time later on Etches came upon the two men clad in evening dress and on expressing his surprise Mr. Guggenheim, who was assisting in getting women into the boats, said: "Oh, that's all right.

If we've got to go down we intend to go down like gentlemen." (RErTEB'S TEI.EGKAM8.) New York, Satcrdav. The hurried departure of Mr. Smith, chairman of the Senate Committee, for New York on Thursday to begin the inquiry, was explained to-day when it became known that a wireless message sent by Mr. Ismay ft Mr. Franklin asking for the sailing of the Cedrie to be delayed so that she could take Mr.

Ismay and the survivors of the Titanic's crew was intercepted by the Government officials and sent to Washington. Mr. Smith is quoted as saying that he had understood in Washington that such messages had been exchanged, and that that was one of the reasons why the investigation was started without loss of time The seriousuess ot tue Senatorial invesr.ir:J tion into the loss of the Titanic was -lisc-losed "tiosea yesterday evening, when Smith at first flatlv refused to permit anv of the officer rr-, or crew of the litanic to sail on the Red Star liner Lapland, in spite of the protest of Mr. Burhngham, counsel for the White Star line. Later as the result of a confer- ence it was decided to permit all but twelve chub it was aecrawi 10 permit an out twelve of the crew and the four rescued officers to depart, but not to allow Mr.

Bruce Ismay MISLEADING WIRELESS MESSAGES. SEARCHING QUESTIONS. (Press Association- Special Service.) ToiiK, Saturday. lae mitigation of the Senate Committer into th. loss of the Titanio thourfli piulon-d.

was rather porf in-ti affair. Following early ovid. nco by Mr. Bruce Umay. Captain Hustron, of ihe Carpathia, and Mr.

Marconi, ivho explained Mime ot the mechanical uud administrative detail- of wireless teh- OflWr Unitholder as called i He was cmu uuicer aoit uud a lew ieet above, and tho steamer was sinking rapidiy. He maintained throughout his evidence that the boats were well idled. prv-iVrenco always being given to women. In accounting for the saving of so many oi crew Mr. Lightholder declared that he had especially inquired, and had ascertained that out of every sis persons picked up from the water the wore either liremcn or steward 1...

how som of hnt '-T I'M oo.it. ent hack res. ued men fl Ho no demonstration Jia! oocurri-d on board, and there was no i even any lamentation among those left 1.. -lurid. In describine: his own ceapo th oftcer recounted how JUJ Mood in tho otneers quarters and dived a the He vas sucked iitiH.m- 1...1.1 u.um injured on tho Iif on which a.s rescued, was liroiln from 1 he hosoilal tho committee-room tu-dnv in an invalid chair.

His faro was sallow and hollow -cheeked, and lm lav propped up bv pillow awaiting to give evidence. Near "him Ismay. who showed the effects of tli great nervous strain which he has undergone. THE CARPATHIAN WIRELESS OPERATOR. Tho first witness called was Mr.

Thomas Cottam, the wireless operator of the Carpathia. He said that tho last word lie sent to the sinking Titanio was an injunction tu have her lifeboats ready. "We tola them," he said, that wo had our boats ready, and were steaming as fast as we could." The fact was brought out that the Carpathia first headed to Halifax with tho survirora, bat that later the captain changed his course for New York. Senator Smith (chairman) If the Wlubd Star sent a message on Monday readinc Representative J. II.

Hughes, HuntiMton cst. irgmia. Titanio proceeding HaSfax' i omoauiy land tnere Wednesday. All safe they did not obtain the information on which that was based from you? Mr. Cottam: No.

Air. Cottam was uncertain regarding what messages ho sent to tho Virginian and tho Si nl Iie dcniod in monosyllabic replies that he said to anyone that the pas- aU 6aVGd the lfmith; Did you 8901,11 an-v message that all tho passengers Imd been saved or that tho litanic- was being towed to Halifax Air. Cottam No, sir. Mr. Smith Nor anything like itP Mr.

Cottam repeated that ho had beer without sloop on Sunday, Mondav, and Tues--day until Wednesday afternoon. Mr sought to obtain from tho witness the -xa hour when he was relieved bv Mr. UH.Ie th operator from the TiUmic, but Mr. oitan. could not say.

Ho said that, ho had eight to ten hours' sloop from tho Carpathia left the wreck until arrived in rsow 1 ork. Mr Smith Did Bride do anv sending (luring that time? Mr. Cottam: Yes, sir. He sent the list of third-class passengers to the cruisPr Chester. Mr.

Smith Any other massage? Mr. Cottam: I don't remember what were. lho record Mr. femith Did von or message declaring that the Titanic was towd to Halifax? Mr. Cottam (cmphaticalJv) No, Mr.

Smith: Did you receive aiiv iiK-ar0 from Marconi stations from V.O-. 0'the White Star Companv'' Mr fifin. i mean as soon as we reached the spot A Message to the Baltic. the catastrophe until you arrived here? i u-njc in TMih wii i i ii i I'll Any messages from an official? ki wuo iiom iiaitic. Was it signed I don't recall wliether it was ticned by the captain of the Baltic.

What were the contents of the message? i Tint1. lrXA.r omw 3 i I too many messages to reVmber them" Did you receive anequestT the rue ataco or tilings to be kept confidential sir. I informed the Baltic of the whole disaster at about 10 30 on Monday morning. Any other communications? Np, sir. What was the message you sent to the burvivors.

Difl -T0'' mention Halifax? bu moment' latecrreS himelf that he might have mentioned Halifax cause Captain Rostron originally decided to Put into Halifax, but subseqiientlv chanced hls and altered his cour.se. MR. BRIDE'S EVIDENCE. yond toleration," and was unjust both to the vend toleration." and T. Uimmiuee anu to tne witness, who was ill.

On being questioned Mr. Bride said that he did not remember ever receiving or sending niessagfcs for Mr. Ismay on board the Titanic. On the fatal Sunday afternoon lie intercepted a message from the Californian intended for the Baltic which announced the presence of, three huge bergs in the vicinity of the former. He gave the message to the captain, who personally acknowledged it.

Half an hour at 4 -30, he was working at his accounts when he heard the appear to be in dispute between the witnesses. Although jttr. Ismay urged that ho should be allowed to go for the present, pleading that he was on the verge of collapse, his request was not The stories of the American survivors of tJie Titanio will be told before the Senate Committee at its sitting in Washington. Subpoenas are being 6ent out to-day. A number were served in the hotel where the New York hearings are being held.

Delay in the opening of the session this morning was due, so it is said, to a diplomatic contest between the Committee and the White Star Company. The latter was anxious for its men to return to England on the liner Lapland. The Committee was determined that those of the Company's servants who had been subpoenaed should not complete their story till the steamer had sailed. I want to get every bit of testimony," said Mr. Smith.

It might be very disastrous if the British Government was given one story by the sliip's men and the American Government another by the American survivors." Mr. Smith is actuated by the determination not to let anyone who has a story to tell to escape without giving evidence. A score of seamen are confined to a room in tho hotel under the guard of the Committee's detectives. Mr. Bruce Ismay, discussing the work of the Investigating Committee with an interviewer, described it as brutally unfair." He said: I cannot understand this inquiry.

They are going at it in a manner that seems unjust, and the injustice lies heaviest upon me. Why, I cannot even protect myself by having my counsel to ask questions! Don't misunderstand me by thinking I mean questions calculated to upset witnesses on the contrary, questions intended simply to evolve meanings." Discussing his departure from tho Titanic, Mr. Ismay said I have searched my mind with the deepest care. I am sure I did nothing I should not have done. My eon- science is clear.

I took a chance to escape when it came to me. I did not seek it Every woman and child had been cared for before I left the boat, and, moreover, all the men within reach had been cared for before I took my turn. It is true I am president of the Company, but I did not consider myself any different from the rest of the passengers. I took no other man's place." A SENATOR'S PROTEST. (Reuter's Telegram.) Washington-, Saturday Night.

During the debate in the Senate to-day on a resolution concerning the regulation of ocean traffic, Mr. McCumber took occasion to register a protest against "the trial, conviction, sentencing, and execution of one who is connected with the Titanic on the floor of the Senate yesterday without fair, honest, and full consideration." Mr. McCumber was evidently referring to the speech of Mr. Itayner, in which hemado a violent attack on Mr. Bruce Ismay.

THE BAND AND ITS LEADER. Apropos of the playing of Nearer, my God, to Thee" by the sinking orchestra' of the Titanic, Mr. Ellwand Moody, a well-known Leeds musician, informed our Leeds correspondent that this hymn and God, our heap in ages past" wore the favourite hymns of Mr. Hartley, the heroic leader of the band. "I left Mr.

Hartley a week last Tuesday at Liverpool," eaid Mr. Moody, where I had just, completed twenty-two trips with him across the Atlantic on th aiauretania. He very much wished me to join him on the Titanic, for we have been close, friends for four ot five years, but I did not fancy it. "I recollect that one day recently I asked him. What would you do if you were ever on a sliip that was and he renlied I 1 don't think I could do better than nla" I ri 'j umi, our jieip in ages pasi or A-earer my God, to Thee." "When I read the statement in the papers that he had pne to his death leading the band in NeareT, my God.

to Thee I believed it. If it had lie en tome other hymn I might not have done so, but as it is I can quit believe it. It ia just what he would do." Mr. Hartley and the otlior members of th Titanic's orchestra were formerly engaged at the Restaurant St. James, Manchester.

The Committee of the Infant Orphan Asylum, Wanstead, hope to be able to receive 25 children (eligible by tiie ruler,) who have become orphans thvought the disaster to the Titanic. OLYMPIC'S PASSENGERS IN LONDON. Some three hundred passengers of the Olympic arrived at Waterloo station, London, yesterday morning. In interviews with a representative of the Press Association it was stated that, although it was understood that Captain Haddock had received a message about midnight on Sunday that the Titanio had struck an iceberg it was considerably later that the news found its way to the passengers. The first intimation that anything- was amiss was given by the altered course and accelerated Bpeed of the vessel.

The Olympic, 500 miles away, was going to the rescue of her disabled sister ship, travel ling at a rate she had never attempted before. The stokers and engineers were working like Trojans to get the last fraction of speed out of tne snip engme3, and for 400 miles ahe tore along at the rate of 24 knots. In the meantime the lifeboats were all prepared for lowering the moment she reached the wxeci. The tension was relieved by another wireless message stating that all on board the Titanic had been saved. The Olympic, however, kept on Iter way, and it was only when she was within 100 miles of the scene of the disaster that she received the message from the Carpathia stating that the Cunard liner had picked up some 700 of the Titanic's survivors, and that pieces of wreckage was all she could find- One of the saloon passengers said that when-the ship's course was altered and tho lifeboats were got ready the Olympic passengers were rilled with alarm.

Until that time they had received no information whatever as to anything untoward, and such an air of mystery was maintained that it was decided to approach the captain of the ship for an explanation. A committee of saloon passengers was formed, and two of their number waited on Captain Had- received that the Titanic had struck an ioeherp. ock, woo mea wxa xnera oi a message he had Plates: anxiety prwafled, and although iater on they were informed that the Titanic had gone down and that the Carpathia had large number of survivors, it was not untu was rweneo mat tftose on the Olympic knew the full extent of the disaster. Tbi5 passenger added that as the Olympic was they pasasd through agreat icefield although ''bak vft3ssl was never in any danger from it. He eaid he had twice crossed the Atlantic in a stam romninnrl hv Caotain Smith than wSH? a snip, ana to wiioka sterlinff worm ooui as a man and a aeaina ha plia a hiahihuto.

1 HOW DID THEY OBIGINATE? OLYMPIC CAPTAIN'S STATEMENT. CFBOM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) Southampton, Sunday. Captain Haddock, of the Olympic, has just made to me the following important statement concerning the early reports circulated on Monday that the Titanic's passengers were all safe and that the vessel was being towed towards Halifax: On the passage from Cherbourg to Southampton I received a letter from two newspaper correspondents requesting me to explain the telegram which has appeared in the newspapers that all the Titanio passengers are safe," and that the Titanic is proceeding slowly to Halifax under hw own steam," which telegram caused a drop from 60 guineas to 20 guineas in the reinsurance at Lloyd's on Monday afternoon. It was suggested that the telegram emanated from the ship, because it came through Keuters. They asked whether that mes sage was sent from the ship, and if so how it came to be sent if it was not true.

The message that came to the Olympic was from one of our old passengers a lady in New York. It was this Are all Titanic passengers safe" or saved The lady had friends of hera on the Titanic. That message was received on Monday at about iu or 10 27 New York mean time, which is equal to 3 20 or 3 27 Greenwich time. At another period of the day I think it was earlier the Olympic was in communication with the ship Asian, from which I tried to get information about the Titanic. She could give me very little indeed, but among the words used were that she was towing an oil tank steamer to Halifax.

I have sent the following letter to my owners in Liverpool: in the presence of our Marconi operators, have denied that such a message was received or sent from this ship. The only solution that I can offer for the Router message is the enclosed Marconi gram, which may have been tapped in transmission and the "are" missed, the remaining words, Titanic making slowly for Halifax being suggested by the Asian message, a copy of which is already in your possession. The message is very probably from a constant White Star traveller, and I on the receipt of the message made the same mistake. I left out are and telephoned the inquiry office (that is the purser's office) on the ship to put up a notice reading All Titanic passengers safe." Nothing more was added. We have been most carefully through every message from tho ship.

No copy of my error, plain or in code, or remainder of the sentence, was sent from this ship. H. J. Haddock, Master. AN OFFICER AND HIS REVOLVER.

STATEMENT BY MRS. WIDENER. (Reuter's Telegram.) Philadelphia, Friday. Describing her experiences at the wreck of the Titanic, Mrs. George D.

Widener, whose husband, a wealthy financier of this city, and son were drowned, said she had seen Captain Smith jump from the bridge into the sea, and the moment previously had seen another officer turn his revolver upon himself and send a bullet through his brain. A STEWARD'S REMARKABLE STORY. (Prkss Association Special Service.) New York, Sctnday. Mr. Whiteley, a first-class steward of the Titanic, who is lying in St.

Vincent's Hospital with frozen and lacerated feet, tells of experiences which are not the least extraordinary of those that have been related. He says that he overheard a conversation between two of the Titanic's crow's nest lookouts on board the lifeboat in which he had taken refuge. He heard one of them say that fifteen minutes before the Titanic struck he had reported to the bridge that he fancied he saw an iceberg and twice afterwards the look-out warned the first officer. They were most indignant that no attention was paid. Mr.

Whiteley, who assisted in launching one of the lifeboats, says that he was caught iu the rope as it uncoiled and was thrown into tlie aoa. He was kept up by his life preserver till ho came across a big oak wardrobe which had risen to the surface after tho Titanic had sunk. Two other men dropped off it exhausted. At daybreak when the sun rose he saw a collapsible raft in the distance black with men, all standing up. I swam to it," he says, almost a mile it seemed to me, but they wouldn't let me on board.

One of them said: 'It's thirty-one lives against yours. You cannot come aboard, there's no Then I confess I prayed that somebody on the raft might die, so that I might take his place. And someone did die. Then they let me on board. By and by we saw seven of the Titanic lifeboats lashed together, on which we were finally taken off." On boaTd one of these lifeboats, while awaiting the arrival of the Carpathia, Mr.

Whiteley says he heard the conversation mentioned between look-outs, whose names he does not know. He believes they are on their way to England on the Lapland. french tributes to british heroisv; (Reuter's Correspondent.) Paris, Saturday. Tiw French press generally pays an eloquent tribute to the heroism displayed by the officers and passengers of the Titanio. Many tributes are paid to the brave telegraphist, Mr.

Phillips, and the band which, went down playing. Tn reference to the latter a writer in the Matin remarks that however trivial the music may have bean, it was superior to anything! Beethoven ever wrote. At the same time the press unanimously demands the exercise of greater prudence in! oceanic navigation and greater precautions for the safety of passengers. Before sailing on Friday afternoon for the Mediterranean, Captain Rostron, of the Carpathia, telegraphed a full report of the rescue of the survivors of the Titanio to the Cunard Company in Iiverpool. He praised his whole ship's company for ite willingness and cheerfulness.

FALSE NEWS AND HOW IT AROSE. CAPTAIN HADDOCK'S EXPLANATION. THE INQUIRY BY THE U.S. SENATE. MR.

BRUCE ISMAY AND HIS TREATMENT. Apart from a more accounts by sur vivors, which do not add greatly to our knowledge of the disaster, the chief interest in to-day's news lies in the efforts made by the Investigation Committee of the United States Senate to clear up the mystery of the untrue reports of Monday last and in an important statement on this matter made to our special correspondent at Southampton by Captain Haddock of the Olympic. Captain Haddock's statement certainly accounts for a great deal of the mystery. He says that shortly before half-past three (Greenwich time) on Monday afternoon he received from a lady in New York who had friends on the Titanic a wireless message: "Are all Titanic passengers safe?" This message, he suggests, may have been tapped in transmission with 'the first word missed, which would, of course, change what was a question into a statement. As to another point the false report that the Titanic was proceeding to Halifax under her own steam, he says that earlier in the day tho Olympic had been in romniunication with the ship Asian endeavouring to get.

news of the Titanic, and that the Asian in the course of her reply had mentioned that she was towing an oil tank steamer to Halifax. In the light of this explanation it is clear that at least part of the optimistic reports whose falsity caused so much distress and indignation can be traced to a simple and perfectly innocent cause. The examination in New York of the two Marconi operators Mr. Cottam of the Car- pathia and Mr. Bride of the Titanic, though long and searching, did not lead to anything so explicit as Captain Haddock's statement, although it proved that no misleading reports of any kind were despatched from the Carpathia.

One extraordinary feature of Mr. Bride's evidence was the account ho gave of Phillips's interchange of messages with tlie steamer Frankfurt. According to this. Phillips, having succeeded in getting the "C.Q.D." message to the Frankfurt (which he supposed to be the vessel nearest him), was asked by the operator on that vessel twenty minutes later what was the matter. By that time the Carpathia was on its way to tho Titanic, so Phillips, saying the Frankfurt operator was a fool, told him to keep out." Mr.

Bruce Ismay, Mr. Franklin, and a number of the officers and seamen of. the Titanio yesterday left New York for Washington where the Senate inquiry will be resumed to-day. Mr. Ismay desired to return to England immediately but was not allowed to do so.

He complains of the unfairness with which the inquiry is being conducted. Among the details of the disaster which hare come to light since Saturday is tho statement that of 126 emigrants who booked their passages at Marseilles not a single one was saved. The heroic devotion to their duty of the post-office staff of five is also recorded. Three of them were Americans and two Englishmen, and all were lost afte1-making a brave effort to get the more important postal bags on deck. EMIGRANTS DROWNED.

NOT ONE SURVIVOR OUT OF A PARTY OF 126. (Reuter's Telegram.) Paris, Saturd.it. The newspapers state that 126 emigrants took tickets at Marseilles for New York by the Titanic and that none of these is among the saved. The Journal's correspondent at Cherbourg says the liner Axnerika which has arrived there from New York reports that a photograph was taken on board eight hours before the loss of tho Titanic of the iceberg which is believed to have sunk the latter. Among the passengers aboard the Amerika were Mr.

and Mrs. Straus, whose relatives perished aboard the Titanic. THE RECOVERY OF BODIES. (Retjter's Telegram.) New York, Sc.ndat. The White Star Company announces that the steamer Rehia notified the cableship Maokay Bennett, sent to collect the bodies of the dead, that she had found floating bodies rn the scene of the wreck of the Titanic.

The Mackay Bennett arrived there yesterday nd began operations this morning. (Chntrai. Nbws Telegram.) New York, Sundat. The following wireless message, dated April 9), was received this morning from the cable-ship Mackay Bennett, which sailed from Halifax on Wednesday last to search for the bodies of victims of the Titanio disaster: "Cableship Mackay Bennett, off Gape Race. Steamer Rehia reports passing wreckage bodies in 42.1 north 49.13 east, eight miles east of three big icebergs.

Now making for that position. Expect reach about tonight. Macks? Bennett." A further menage from the Mackay Bennett has been received by Mr. Ismay. The message reads: "Have received further information from Bremis and arrived on ground.

Start operations to-morrow. Have been considerably delayed by dense fog JvTackay jui-lv tacrn coi ir.pr;ioie Doais ana raits. sne made her last voyage with about '-he same i. ,1 -i 1 1 i Board of Trado ordains. Tho Olympic is a replica of the Titanic on a very slightly reduced scale.

I gained a sharp impression of what must have liapponed in these huge gilded saloons aud lordly corridors, where everything is done to make you forgot you are not in tho Metropole or tho Cecil in London. It is an effort to remember you are on a ship at all. You do not see the water through the stained-glass windows. IiOokinj over from the top deck, whore tho boats were lowered that dreadful night, is like peering over the edge of Dover cliffs. The coaling barges below nro dwarfed to tov boats.

Hor neighbours in the harbour, the Majestic and the Philadelphia, ships of 10,000 tons or thereabouts, seem no bigger that Isle of Wight paddle-steamers. From here you look down on Southampton as from a hill. The Olympic is the last word in luxury and size. But on this glorious moraine one paced the lone saioons in meiancnoiy, not in admiration. TITANIC SUFFERERS.

THE LORD MAYOR'S FDND. At noon on Saturday tho Lord Mayor of Manchester (Mr. S. W. Iloyse) had received over 400 in response to his appeal for help on behalf of the sufferers by the loss of the Titanic.

Among the cheques received on Saturday was one for 250 from tho Co-operative Wholesale Society. A gratifying feature of the contributions is their widespread source. Somu liavo come from Sheffield and other towns outside the Manchester district. 'I he offertories at the churches and chapels last evening will also go to the Lord Mayor's Fund, to bo transmitted by him to London. We shall acknowledge from day to day the subscriptions to the fund which are sent to us.

and shall forward them to the Lord Mayor. The following contributions have been sent to us Already lb 1 Messrs. Ullmann. Hirschborn and 5. Chjpstow-streot.

Manchester 5 5 0 Dr. W. Miiligan 5 5 0 LudwiOppenheimer, 2 2 0 D. Maxwell Reekie, India House, Whit-worth-street, Manchester 2 2 0 Thomas Xewlnpsrinp. Manchester 2 2 0 The Members of the Bollington Women's liberal Association S.

M. Dr. and Mrs. Brodskv Herbert I'. Cain, Ra.m-bofc:om W.

G. Glover. Prestwich W. S. Jones.

Oxford A. Castleton Kathleen M. On- 0 Vv nin rtlimfl Sf nr A eci, ranio RniMfn- 3 0 Miaa B. Shuttleworh, Rochdale 0 2 0 v.wimi. A meeting of exliibitors at the Printing and Stationery Exhibition, at the City Hall, was held on Saturday, when it was decided to open an exhibitors fund for the relief of the Titanic sufferers.

A sum of twenty guineas was aub- scribed in the room, and a cheque for that amount has been despatched to the Lord Mayor a. uioi uiuuu-ivn. i uciuea to tnvite visitors to the exhibition to contribute to the fund. THE MANSION HOUSE FUND. THE PRINCE OF WALES'S DONATION.

the Titanic sufferers now amounts to over; The weekend contributions in-1 eluded 250 guineas from the Prince of Wales, 500 from the Gaekwar of Baroda, 50 guineas from the Attorney-General, 500 each from Messrs. John Brown and Co. and William P. i 0 0' uo reouseu, as it. nas now Dcen rcmueor We cannot judge this man or that, but God, by such an act, compels us to think, and to see things in their true light.

And we can seo their true ugliness and shame. God grant that we and our sister nation of America may take to heart and profit by tho lesson. Tho name and thing, will stand for a monument and warning to human presumption. But let God alone rebuke; not us." The Engineers. All the churches have had services this week-end; and out in the streets the Salvation Army bands go about singing, praying, and collecting money for the sufferers.

One cannot even for five minutes escape from the oppressive sliadow that hangs over the place. Just now, on the top of a tramcar, a man looked up from reading the list of rescued in an evening paper and said to mo, I thought so; not a single engineer among them. Six of my pals have gone down in her." And he told me how tho engineers have the poorest clnnce of escape of anyone on the ship. Immediately after the collision the engineers on tho off watch would be told to stand by at their places ready to take the places of any who fell out. And there they've got to stop," added tho engineer, "till tho water drives them out, and then of course there's no room for them in any of the boats.

Talk about heroes, why, engineers have got to be heroes anyway." The Firemen. To-day they have taken down the notice-board at tho White Star offices, which has been almost the centre of the town's life all the woek. lint meeting there has grown to he a liabit with these stricken people, and this afternoon I found scores of sailors and women-folk still staring with an unnatural fixity at tho windows. There was nothing more to see, although as I shall explain there is by no means an end to the anxiety, and yet they stood there iu the glorious sunshine, saying little, just waiting. What talk there is chiefly centres round tho extraordinary luck of the firemen, of whom, as I said yesterday, they have saved the surprising number of 76.

An interesting explanation was given me by the officials of the British Seafarers' Union. It is stated that scmo of the fvremen were wanted to man tho boats. I have ascertained from the lists of the crew that the Titanio carried onlv fifty sailors in the strict sense of the word a number, of course, in accordance with the Government rules. The fmion officials are strongly of opinion that firemen have not the necessary skill to take charge of boats. The number of sailors carried on tho bis liners has certainly dwindled as the hotel side of their equipment hes grown more important.

and this may positively constitute a danger. The Lifeboat Question. Southampton continues to debate the life boat question. All the practical seamen I have Been agree that the boats were insufficient, and they quote the reports of the calm and undisturbed launching of what boats there were to support the contention that if they had had more boats nearly every body couia nave got away. A trooper told me that the troopship Plassv.

now fvinir in the river, is equipped with 36 boats, sufficient to carry every soul on ooaro. ihe Admiralty enforces provision sufficient for that nuroosa and the Plassy ia a by the side of 6uch a leviathan as the great White Star liner. The Lists of the Dead. The lists are taken down from the boards, but inside the offices the officials, many of whom have hardly slept since Tuesdav, are still busy at the anxious business of getting out a oorrect list. I am inclined to think that this trouble about the lists is the bitterest thing of all.

Now nearly a week since the disaster the wives of some of the crew are not certain yet whether their husbands are dead or alive. It was some alleviation thia morning when the Company posted up the initials of the scores of names of the crew which appeared on Friday without them, and so some women now know the worst. On Board the Olympic. 1 spent this morning on board tho Olympic, the Titanic's sister ship. She has had a sad home-coming.

There is hardly anyone ia her crew who has not lost a friend or a relation, and to-day scores of firemen and engineers have gone back to bereaved homes. An Olvmpio stoker told me that he has lost a brother as well as four mates, with whom he has gone to sea scores of times, but the t-uo Bonbright and and 250 guineas from' ou dld nofc at time attempt to with-MefiKTs BarnatA Brothers. 'bold any facte? No. Messrs. Barnato Brothers.

Telegrams have been sent by the Committer) of the Sailors' Orphan Girls' School and Horn. Hampstead, to the Lord Mayor of Liverpool Ir- Bride, the crippled wireless operator and the Mayor of Southampton, in the follow-j of the Titanic, was next called. Ht was ing terms: "The Committee of the Sailors' wheeled to the table where the Committee Orphan Girls' School and Home, Hampstcad, riat. At this moment a phalanx of nhot- t0, fj? hll VhosigrapherS exploded a flashllh tZr fathers lost their lives in the Titanic." The! Smith said that. t.K ifJ er" Ir- Home has its full complement of 75 girls, but i alterations are at once hein- mad-e to accorn- modate an additional ten.

THE LOSS OF THE ELLAN VAXXIN RECALLED. Local funds have been spontaneously opened in the Isle of Man, which remembers the loss of the BQan Vannin two years and the Charles Jougbin, the. chief baker of the Titanic, was a native of the island. re 0a" 1f St rclief fanL ago tuuiiimi'i vuguuw Uj friendship or atill nearer ties. The blow is a.