THE WAIRUNA INQUIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1917, Page 5

THE WAIRUNA INQUIRY.

FINDING OP THE COUR!\

RECOMMENDATIONS TO Tfiß GOV. ERNMENT. By Telegraph.—'Press Association, Auckland, Last Night. The following has been released by the censor for publication: The text of the Court of Inquiry Into the loss of. the Wairuna is: It is highly probable that the loss was caused by enemy action, either through the operations of a raider, or through the placng of a timed bomb on board the vessel before she left port, and of these two, the latter, is the more probable cause. The Court makes the following recommendations for serious and urgent consideration by the Government: 1. That stricter precautions be taken to prevent the approach of unauthorised persons to vessels and wharves. 2. That stricter precautions be taken to prevent undesirable- men being employed on vessels and wharves. 3. That firms having members of alien enemy nationality be not permitted to ship goods, 4. That all persons going on board Vessels be searched, and all luggage to be taken on to vessels be examined. . 5. That all cargo for shipment be packed under Government supervision, and be retained thereafter under Government control until shipped. 0. That if (here are cases where compliance with the immediately preceding recommendations is not practicable. in such eases the packages be retained in Government control tor an indefinite time before shipment. RUMORED LANDING OF CREW DENIED. Wellington, Last Night. \Vith reference to the recent official an. nouncement that a German raider had not been responsible for the sinking of the Wairuna,'it is now officially stated by naval authorities in New Zealand that there was 110 truth whatever in the rumor that the Wairuna's crew had landed at any part of the American coast.