TITANIC DISASTER
CABLE NEWS
(United Press Atsociation — By Electric" Telegraph — Copyright.)
FURTHER EVIDENCE
STEERAGE PASSENGERS TO BE®
EXAMINED
(Received May 9, 9.10 a.m.)
LONDON, May 8.
A meeting heild in Westminster College Ha»U decided<fto apply to the Titanic Court of-'Enqiiiry for pernnssi-»BC to have fcho steerage passengers represented at the enquiry by counsel. It was stated that two third-class-passengers had alleged that wfa/ila they were swimming some cf the struck their heads and hands asnrJL pie\"ijtea th?m from climbing rrtotlu* Mm'.. THICK fIaZE. BUT NO SLACKENING OF SPEED. (Received May 9,1 p.m.) LONDON, May B. A seaman named Lee, who was? with Fleet, another seaman, iit the crow's nest at the time the vessel struck, testified that there was was a. thick haze ahead, which . thickeriedv bitt that the speed was not slackened, after Fleet's warning that 1 there was an iceberg right ahead.; He ged that from the bridge the iceberg appeared as a dark mass with only a. white spot of fringe along the top. Ther iii-st berg was seen when it was half a. mile or less distant.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10632, 10 May 1912, Page 5
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181TITANIC DISASTER Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10632, 10 May 1912, Page 5
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