PRIME MINISTER MAKES A STATEMENT
AN "EVENT WHICH APPALS THE IMAGINATION."
DISTRESSING SCENES
(Received' April "17, 11.-15 a.m.)
■• LONDON, A pri'lie; The members" of the House of Commons, bareheaded, stood whilst the. Prime Minister (the Hon. H. H. Asquith) read the latest telegram, stating that all the boats were accounted for, and that 675 so.uls had been.saved. "We must brace ourselves,-'' said the' Prime Minister, "to confront an event which appals the imagination." He expressed the .-House's deep admiration at the manner the best traditions oi the sea had been upheld in saving those least able to save themselves. There were piteous scenes at the White Star Company's office at Cockspur Street. Relatives were waiting for hours for news, and many provincial, people in failing,to obtain.news ih Liverpool came : to- London. • , ' .. _ The officials were only able to pointto the :., Carpathian's wireless:— "Found boat!?,'- -wreckage only." Similar scenes - were enacted at Southampton, where ' practically the whole of the 903 of the crew were natives. There is scarcely a family in tho town which has not lost a relative ov friend. Tho Paris offices of the White. Star Company were besieged by weeping enquirers. The flags on shipping in Continental ports are flown at half-mast.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10611, 18 April 1912, Page 5
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203PRIME MINISTER MAKES A STATEMENT Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10611, 18 April 1912, Page 5
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