WOMEN AND CHILDREN SAFE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10612, 19 April 1912, Page 5

WOMEN AND CHILDREN SAFE

.'AX INVESTIGATION DEMANDED. THE.QUESTION, OF BOATS. .'(Received Last Night, 11.50 o'clock) NEW YORK, April IK. A relief fund in aid of the, siifferers l>y tho wreck has been opened here. SEARCHING FOR BODIES. Colonel Aster's son has chartered a . steamer to search for his father's body. • ' , The steamer Mackay Bennet has left Halifax with undertakers and clergy-, men aboard to perform funeral rites. ■ WIRELESS'-MESSAGES. " • . The cruiser Chester is how. repeating the wireless messages received from the Oarpatihia. ' The safety of all the women and tMldren who were passengers by the Titanic ia assured. INVESTIGATION' DEMANDED. The Senate has adopted a resolution,, demanding a comprehensive investigation imto the disaster. Some of tho survivors will be immediately summoned to Washington to give evidence regarding the inability of the officers to save the lives of all aboard tho vessel. INSUFFICIENT APPARATUS. A Bill introduced in the Senate, prohibiting liners .from... entering or clearing United States ports without sufficient apparatus to accommodate all passengers, has been,referred to' the Merchant Marine Committee. The Chairman stated that evidently, life-boats would take, up too much roam, and the companies were chasing the "Almighty Dollar.'' YELLOW PRESS ATTACKS. The Yellow Pi-ess hotly attacks the WhitoStar management, and criticises the regulations of ifche English' authorities. The steamship owners bitterly resent these comments, and'' cast the Haane on -those demanding luxuries flnero4whing upon the lifeboats' space. A WARNING. The steamship America warned the Titanic-of the icebergs a few minutes before the vessel struck.