HOLDING UP WITNESSES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10620, 27 April 1912, Page 5

HOLDING UP WITNESSES.

AND WASTING TIME. BRIDE TELLS HIS NARARTIVE. (Received Last Night, 9.50 o'clock.) WASHINGTON, April 20. It is rumoured that there are internal dissensions in the Committee of the Senate, owing to Senator Smith monopolising too much time. Quartermaster Hitchin was allowed to return to England after a vote overruling Senator Smith's refusal. Several of the Committee resented Senator Smith's plan for holding f-'.-ty witnesses at Washington, until the examination of all was completed. Senator Smith thereupon annoiuved that the rest of the witnesses would bo opportuned by the various members of the Committee, who would decide whether their evidence would lie sufficiently important to justify their being examined by the full Committee, thus saving time. THE WIRELESS MESSAGES. Mr Marconi was sharply examined concerning a wireless-message to the .operator .advising him to hold his narrative. Ho said he did know that telegrams were sent .through which authorised the operators to soli .their stories. •. Mr.Bride, the assistant .operator, had received £IOO from a newspaper. The Marconi Company was not responsible for delay in publishing the details of the wreck. It left the conduct of the wireless messages to the Carpathia's captain. Mr Marconi advocated each Government controlling certain wave lengths, issuing licenses to use them. When the available wave lengths were exhausted, they should refuse a license to more stations. IN MEMORIAM. (Received Last Night, 9.40 o'clock.; OTTAUA. April iG. In memory of the late Mr Hay?, the entire Grand Trunk system was suspended for five minutes, and the stations draped in mourning. THE RELIEF FUND. (Received Last Night, 11 o'clock.) OTTAWA, April 20. Tlio Dominion Government has voted £2OO to the Titanic relief fund. FEELING. IN GERMAN 7. STRONG NEWSPAPER COMMENT. (Received Anril 26. 10 a.re ) BERLIN, April 25. The Kaiser has ordered a searching investigation into the matter u" the extension of life-saving appliances for passenger ships. The German Government has circularised the Powers suggesting an international conference to discuss the improvement of life-saving precautions at sea. The Vossische Zeitung attributes tho Titanic disaster to the British sporting instincts, and denounces the alleged contemptuous dismissal of the steamer 'Frankfurt because she was a German liner. The Frankfurter Zeitung censures Mr Ismay for abandoning the ship. "Ho will'hear the mark of Cain ail hi> life," says the paper. Lokal Anzeigcr says that Captain Smith aimed, with criminal, r.ithless--1 ness, for a record voyage. , The Germania says the tragedy was a judgment of God, similar to tha J of the Tower of Babel. I The Vorwaerts says the captain was | tho victim of his irresponsible un- ] scrupulousness, but Mr Ismay Was ■ guiltier. WHAT A LINER'S PASSENGERS SAW. FATEFUL ICEBERG SIGHTED. (Received April 26. 8.5' a.m.) . NEW YORK, April 25. The Norddeltscher Lloyd liner Bremen, which has arrived, reports h»vinJ passed the iceberg the Titanic struck.Passengers slate that there were pitiable -spectacles on the water In one case there were a dozen people, al! with lifebelts, and locked together as though their had died in a struggle f.-v lifcv LONDON, April 25. The President of the Board of Trade (Rt. Hon. Sydney Buxton) states that 189 out of 144 women in the first-class were saved from the Titanic, 78 out of 93 in the second class, and 9? cut of 179 in the third-class. All the children in the first and sec-ond-class were saved, and 23 out of 96 in tho third-class. Of the male passengers, 126 out of 777 were saved, and 189 out or H 75 of the crew. Nineteen per cent, of the men were saved, and 77 per cent of the worirvi