THE TITANIC DISASTER.
31 ORE EVIDENCE* AT BRITISH INQUIRY./ VESSEL’S HIGH SPEED. 03y Electric Telegraph.—Copyrigl t.' (United Press Association.) London, May 7. At the Titanic enquiry Hitchens said that up to the moment the vessel struck the speed was 45 knots every two hours. WRECK AG E Si G HTED. New York, May 7. The German steamer Clio reports sighting a broken iceberg 130 feet high carrying saloon fittings, handbags, chairs, cushions and general wreckage. TH*. MiEW CHINA. MONEY WANTED TO DISBAND SOLDIERS. BUT IS NOT AVAILABLE. ” Pekin, May 8. China requires thirty-five million taels i.n six weeks for the purpose of disbanding 850,000 troops. The socalled Six-Nations’ Banks demand foreign supervision before granting a loan, and suggest that foreign military officers should ivitncss the disbandment. The Premier refused, but the Minister for Finance is negotiating in the matter.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10, 9 May 1912, Page 5
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139THE TITANIC DISASTER. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10, 9 May 1912, Page 5
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