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Show OFFICERS HAD WARNING. Men In Crow's Nest Saw Iceberg and Advised Officer (n Bridge. New York. Three warnings that an Iceberg was ahead were transmitted from the crow's nest of the Titanic to the officer on the doomed steamship's bridge fifteen minutes before she truck, according to Thomas Whitely, a first saloon steward, who now lies In St. Vincent's hospital with frozen and lacerated feet. Whitely, who was whipped overboard over-board from the ship by a rope while helping to lower a lifeboat, finally reached the Carpathla aboard one of the boats that contained, he said, both the crow's nest lookouts. He heard a conversation between them, he asserted, assert-ed, in which they discussed the warnings warn-ings given of the presence of the Ice- Ver- , ..... Whitely d!d not know either of the lookout men's names and believes they have returned to England with the majority of tho surviving members ol the crew. |