EGYPT INQUIRY.
CONDUCT OF THE LASCARS. •THEY LOOKED SCARED.” By Telegraph.—Press A®tn.—Copyright. London, July 31. At the Egypt inquiry Alice Byrne, stewardess, said she saw a boat load of natives leaving the ship. They looked scared. “I suppose,” she said, “they did not think it their duty to save the women.” Mabel Evans, stewardess, described the natives as rushing about the decks in all directions after the collision panicstricken. She lieard shots. Quartermaster Rusher said he lowered a boat and tried to take off passengers, but the natives would not row and kept backing away. Quartermaster Harvey said he found his boat full of natives. He ordered them out, but they were terrified and he could not move them. Quartermaster Lissendei* said he saw no active interference by the natives with the passengers.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1922, Page 5
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133EGYPT INQUIRY. Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1922, Page 5
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