THE TITANIC DISASTER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3, 30 April 1912, Page 5

THE TITANIC DISASTER.

i EMOTIONAL WELCOME TO CREW I AT SOETHAAIETON. A HEROIC -STOKEHOLD. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, April 29. One hundred and lifty-soven of the Titanic’s crew have arrived. They declined to submit to examination until representatives of the Seafarers’ ["cion were present. Sever;;! of them freely narrated various incidents. One said that he saw the captain swim with a baby to a boat, and that he helped others, afterwards returning to the vessel. He showed no desire to survive. Others stated that the engineer was imprisoned in the pump-room when the watertight doors were closed. The whole of the stokehold watch wore drowned. There was no engineer on the deck after the collision,’ and the engineroom. staff kept the lights going until the vessel was submerged. A detachment of the Titanic’s crew received an emotional welcome at Southampton. An open-air thanksgiving service was attended by the naval and military .eservists, Territorials and 50,000 civilians. Captain Moore stated that when he arrived at the Titanic’s position at •1.30 in the morning he saw nothing but ice, and the tramp steamer Oarpa thin informed him that she had picked up the boats. The Titanic’s speed was not wise in view of the warnings site bad received. Undoubtedly her officers had not fixed her position properly, and lie estimated that she was eight miles further east than

reported. Etches, a steward, testified that after Mr Ismay had twice called for more women to enter the boat,, a woman advanced, saying, “We are only the stewardesses.” “Never mind,” exclaimed Mr Ismay; “you women get in.” She obeyed.

Admiral Mahon, after expressing the opinion that censure or approval should await the official investigation, attacks Mr 'lsmay, whose company was responsible, individually and collectively, and Mr Ismay personally, for the loss of life. His belief that the Titanic was nnsinkable relieved him of moral guilt, but not of responsibility. He adds that Mr Ismay was justified in taking a place in a boat, because it was the last boat and only half-filled, but as long as a soul could lie picked up the obligation lay on Mr Ismay that that person, and not he, should occupy a place in the boat. An American committee, consisting of the captain of the Titanic’s friends, is raising funds for his family. RUSSIAN MEMORIAL SERVICE. (Received .10, 8.20 a.in.) St. Petersburg, April 29. There was an impressive Russian requiem for all the Titanic’s victims at the Admiralty Church. It was attended by the British and American Ambassadors, naval and military officers and representatives of the Duma.