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Show THE ENGLISH INQUIRY. The English inquiry into 1.hc facts of the Titanic disaster is likely to be even more searching and expert than that made by the committee- of the U. S. Senate, which, under ail the circumstances circum-stances has done so remarkably well, The inquiry in London will be pro-sided pro-sided over by the first Baron Lord Mersey, who is now in his seventy-second seventy-second year. He has been active in many public affairs, was a' member of tho South Africa Committee of the House of Commons in 1S96-7, was the leader of the bar in the Northern Circuit, Cir-cuit, was member of the Royal Commission Com-mission for tho Revision of Martial Law - Sentences in South Africa in 1902. President of tho Railway and Canal Commission 1901-8, Judge in Bankruptcy 15)04-9, Judge of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice 1S97-J909, and Prosi' dent of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Ad-miralty Division of the High Court of Justice 1909-1910. He has retired from active service on the bench, but is brought into service by the House of Commons for the Presidency of the Court of Inquiry which will investigate investi-gate the Titauic disaster. He is represented as a man of broad grasp of mind aud firm . command of the law. especially of Admiralty law. His announcement that the investigation investiga-tion will be thorough is enough to indicate in-dicate that it will be thorough. In the meantime, the feeling against the President of the Board of Trade for allowing the old regulations to persist into the new sea conditions and as applied ap-plied to the great liners, is condemnatory condemna-tory in the highest degree. The British Brit-ish public evidently did not realize that these ocean liners wero being allowed al-lowed to go to sea carrying no more lifeboats than would take off one-third of the persons on board in case of accident, ac-cident, The realization of this condition condi-tion In; the British public is certain to command a searching investigation, and to make thrj members of that court alert to the full performance of their duty. Under these conditions, we may confidently con-fidently expect an investigation on tho other Bide of tho water that will bo far more drastic and far moro punitive than anything that can be applied in this country; for the White Star Line is a British concern, and fully under the jurisdiction of the British authority. author-ity. The likelihood of important developments de-velopments by reason of this English investigation is reasonable, and the public will await them with the keenest keen-est interest. |