| Show PLACES THE BLAME 46 FOR OCEAN SCATHING REPORT TO BE PRESENTED BY SENATOR SMITH ON THE TITANIC DISASTER white star line and lamay ismay severely scored officers and crew set down as incompetent and responsibility laid on captain smith washington A scathing arraignment of J bruce ismay and the white star line officials in new york a stern denunciation of many members of the pick up crew of the titanic and sweeping charges of at incompetency in the management ol of the line will be made in the re report port of the special committee subcommittee sub appointed to investigate into the titanic disaster by the united states senate which will be given to the senate on may alay 28 the report will be submitted by chairman william alden smith of michigan who has labored almost incessantly since the afternoon he was rushed to new york to meet the carpathia Carp athla and secure the facts first hand direct responsibility for the catastrophe Is laid on captain smith and it Is pointed out that had he heeded the warnings of lea ice sent him by the amerika amerlia and other vessels the lives of at the 1635 would have been saved pointing out that the speed of the titanic just before she struck the iceberg was twenty four and a half miles an hour and that it bad been steadily increased after receiving ice warning by telegraph the report asserts that the presence q ayi ji board of at ismay the managing director of the line and andrews the constructor for harlan wolf the constructors was undoubtedly an incentive to making this great speed the report recites that the pickup crew with which the white star line m manned the vessel were unab unacquainted quaint with each other and their duties there was the utmost confusion when the vessel struck |
