TITANIC DISASTER
«!■ RELIEF FUND REACHES £320,000. {Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock ) "LONDON, May 2. The Titanic relief fund has reached £322,000, including .the women's fund of £42,000. ' ______ SENATOR SMITH APOLOGISES. A LAME EXPLANATION. (Received May 2, 9.50 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May 1. Senator Smith, chairman of tuc Senate's Committee of Enquiry, has apologised to Mr Lowe, fifth officers* the Titanic, for. his reference to Alt Lowe's sobriety. He says he did not intend to caste any reflection on M Lowe, the word "intemperate iinvm* lieen. interpreted as relating to Air Lowe's habit* instead of Ins tempox. (The cabled report of the incHont was as follows :-Mr Lowe m the course of his evidence said ■«£* tn J collision did not awaken him. senator Smith (chairman) asked if the witne,s was intemperate, and Mr Lowe indignantly denied the imputation. Jfr Smith: I ask because a note just • assert an to mo states that it is reported ? ou were drinking on the night of the Disaster. Mr Lowe: Impossible. I am a total abstainer.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10626, 3 May 1912, Page 5
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170TITANIC DISASTER Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10626, 3 May 1912, Page 5
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