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Show SPYGLASS Mill . HAVE SAVED MP OUTLOOK ON TITANIC NOT PROVIDED PRO-VIDED WITH BINOCULARS, ACCORDING AC-CORDING TO WITNESSES. Iceberg Might Have Been Detected In Time to Have Prevented Terrible Tragedy of the Sea Had Men Been Properly Equ'pped. Washington. Like the mUslnn horseshoe nail that cost a monarch his kingdom, the failure to provide binoculars or spyglasses for the look out on the Titanic was one contributing contrib-uting cause of that ship's loss and with It the loss of more than 1.60C Uvea. Two wltnessf before th senate Investigating In-vestigating commltteo on Tuesday agreed on this. They were Frederick Fleet, a lookout on tho liner, and Ma Jor Arthur Godfrey Peuehen, Canadian Canad-ian manufacturer and yachtsman, whn was among the rescued passengers. Fleet acknowledged that If ho had been aided In hi observation by a good ghis3 he prdnbly could have spied tho borg Into which the ship crashed In time to have warned the bridge to avoid It. Major Peuehen alfo testified to the much greater sweep of vision afforded by binoculars, binocu-lars, and, a a yachtsman, said he believed be-lieved tho presence of the Iceberg might have been detected In time to escape the collision had the lookout men been ao equipped. It was made to appear that the blamo for heirs without g'nws did not rest with the lookout men. Fleet tald they had asked tor the glasses at Southampton and were told there wort? none for them. One glass. In a pinch, would have served In the crow' nest. Mnjor Peuehen criticised In strong terms tho lack of experienced Bailors on board the Titanic. He said that when the call to quarters was sounded sound-ed not enough of the crew responded to undertake the work required In lowering and filling the boats. Furthermore, he said, no drills hail been held from the time the ship left Southampton, although It wa customary cus-tomary to hold such drills every Sun-Jay. Sun-Jay. Herbert J. Pitman, third officer of the Titanic, told of hi failure to turn back the lifeboat in which he and hi pasFengers were Idly drifting, to attempt at-tempt the rescue of other when the Titanic went down. Shuddering at the recollection, he ifttd the cries for help made "one Ions, continuous moan.' Tho passenger passen-ger Insisted that to go back to aid .hem would mean their destruction, he said, so that after starting In the llrectlou of the cries ne rescinded his orders and waited for dawn. Twlcp. he begged to be spared a re-jltal re-jltal of the fact, but Senator Smith pressed him. |