TITANIC DISASTER
FINDINGS OF THE COURT
CRITICISED BY THE PRESS
(Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock)
LONDON, July 31. The Times, in demurring at the words contained in the chief finding of the Court of Inquiry, declares that the Titanic collision was due to the course steered not less than to the excessive.time-speed. If the object had been sighted, the speed would, it says, have been immaterial. The report declares that an extra look-out should have been placed at the sternhead, and that a sharp lookout should Jiavo been kept on l>oth sides of the bridge. The Times adds: "Apart from these points, the report is masterly, thorough, lucid, dispassionate and firm."
The Times and other newspapers emphasise the finding, -..nich blames the Board of Trade for not setting up a Commission to revise the rules of 1894, relating to boat accommodation.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10683, 1 August 1912, Page 5
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141TITANIC DISASTER Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10683, 1 August 1912, Page 5
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