TITANIC DISASTER
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FURTHER EVIDENCE TAKEN WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. (Received May 15, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, May 15. The Titanic wreck enquiry was resumed to-day. The captain of tilie steamer Cahtornian deposed that lie tried to converse by Morse Jamp signals ,wifch a.n> unknown steamer, apparently between him and the Titanic. He was certain her white signals were not distress signals. She was about six miles off He dad not believe that she was the Titanic. Ho admitted that if the Marconi operator 'had 'been euro-used when tho rockets had been seen they would have picked up the Titanic messages. Gibson, an apprentice, gavo evidence that Mr Stone, the second officer of the Califomian, had looked through glasses and reported that 'he saw a vessel with >a heavy list. Lord Mersey (President of the Court) sharply examined Mr Stone. who denied Gibson's He said he only thought what he- had seen were distress signals that he had heard of tho distress of the Titanic.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10637, 16 May 1912, Page 5
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172TITANIC DISASTER Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10637, 16 May 1912, Page 5
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