MISLEADING NEWS

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

MISLEADING NEWS

THE WORK OF LRRESPONSIBLES

KING AND PRESIDENT '.EX-hv CHANGE MESSAGES. "

(Received Last Night, 11.5 o'clock.)

LONDON, April 5: Strong comments have been, made / relative to the false and misleading 1 , emanating from America. . The Times says the origin of the various accounts demands am investiga- | tion. .„ I > -'The White Star Company j.-.v?.+.-. frkafy I they have not received ainy message from the Titanic. The erroneous, news is the work of irresponsible and immagmative persons. The Right Hon. A. M- Carlisle (the Titanic's builder), declared that tho boat accommodation on the Titanic was inadequate. It was a difficult' prdblem to fine 'boat room on modern mammoths. SOME OF THE PASSENGERS. The passengers on the illfated vessel included Mr Thomas Pears, the ''well-known soap maker; Mr Parsons, an cx-Coiigreissman; Mr Wanren, an ex-Senator, and Mr Hoyt, Professor of Law iro the Washington University. Mr.Hayes's rescue is not confirmed. M. FRUTELLE RESCUED. M. Jiaq-ues Frutelle, the ncvelest, who was reported to ibe among the missing, has been rescued. KING AND PRESIDENT. His Majesty tho King has sent ' a message to President Taft, in which ho deplored the terrible loss of the subjects of countries so intimately allied 'by tho ties'of friendship and brotherhood. President Taft has replied: "The ap. palling disaster baa brought both ■ countries into a community of grief '.through a common bereavement. The • 'Americans share the sorrow of their kinsmen beyond the iseas." . EUROPEAN SYMPATHY. All stile European Courts have tenr dered their symipatthy. HUNDREDS OF ICEBERGS. The Allan liner Tunisian (10,576 •tome) was for 24 hours in the ice. Two hundred ioebergs were seen. The vessel stopped at night and sent ■c a wireless message .to the Titanic at midnight on Saturday. MANSION HOUSE FUND. The Mansion Heuso fund for the re-

[ lief of tlio sufferers by tho wreck has ! readied £6ooo'. 1 Tho King has given five hundred guinoas, and the. Queen £250. Tho Shipping Federation lias given £2OOO to .the Southampton fund. ■ ITPEAL TO WOMEN. The Daily Mail specially appeals to women on' behalf of 'the. Titanic's seamen, who died to save the women. MR' HAYES SATED. s}3 | . Received This Morning, 12.30 o'clock. "MONTR-EAL, April 18.' It is definitely knpyii that Mr Hayes, the President of the Great Thmk Railway,' has been saved fromthe wreck. .-' , ,-...■> AUSTRALIA'S CONDOLENCES. (Received This Morning, 1.10 o'clock.) SYDNEY, April 18. The Governor General has cabled The Secretary of State Australia's condolences over' the wreck of the Titanic.