British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 October 1913, Page 2

British and Foreign.

[i;I.IX'TRLC Tj<;u:<IRANI, CUL'YItIGIIT. \ [t'KR L'ItKSS ASSOCIATION.] THE YOLTI RN •. New York, Uc'ober Hi. The third officer of the Volturi!.u believes that bctwvn eighty and ninety passeugers w -re !t.ipned by the first explosi ri and killed or inuiiterated. He admits that some sioket"-. were driven back to wu-k.nt fh< j point of the pistol. The Carmania did. al! possible. Her boats were miab' ' to live in the sea when she first arrival. Mr Lloyd, the seconl officer of llie Volturno, interviewed, bitterly criticised the failure of the liners to send boats. He deci'ire- 1 (V | fain I nch (of the Volturno) became desperate, and requested vo.unteers to show the o'ser captains it was not impossible to launch boats. Mr LI i\<l and three others volunteervl to t;"o as far as the Grosser Kurfursi, but S fhe boat was smashed. At last Captain Incn sent „ wireless: "My God! 1 cannot siaiid this long". Sriu! some boats!" The captains replic I : "'Tried our best : the sea is too Inwy. no boat could live." Asked why the Carinan>«\ save;! only one man, Mr Lloi.l said: ''God only knows: no bop's were lowered from the Carman'a even affer we showed the way." Many of the Grosser K "lLii'st"? passengers corroborate! the statement.