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lives were lost, but damage to the extent of the taxpayer shall foot the bill, then we 

 <5^'ioo,ooo is alreatlv reported. The injury think, that some very pertinent questions 

 to health that will follow from the deluge should be asked with regard to the 

 remains to be seen. special fees paid to the various counsel 

 In the various British and the retainers, which undoubtedly did 

 The Perils reports and inquiries aris- not make them less adverse to dragging 

 ing from the loss of the out the Inquiry. Since no benefit accrued 

 Tilauic much was made of to the public, and since Lord Mersey 

 the fact that it was an exceptional occur- expressly declared his lack ot interest in 

 rence, and this was made the reason for what the public thought or desired, it 

 no new regulations being framed. Now, seems unjust to spend the public money 

 however, in the Corsican we have another without rendering any account, 

 case, which would have had similarly dis- The change of Govern- 

 astrous results had the steamer not been "'"'"' "^ ment in Turkey has pro- 

 running ticad slow at the time of the ^^^^ East. duced much telegraphic 

 collision. After this we trust that active eftervescence, centring in 

 steps will be taken to bring life-saving Vienna, as is usual in such cases. Through- 

 equipment up to date and generally to give out the Near East it is a matter of common 

 the passengers and crew a chance of life, knowledge that the majority of telegrams 

 It is interesting to note that Senator Smith emanating from the Austrian capital and 

 is to ask the United States Senate to cir- dealing with Balkan affairs are unreliable 

 culate Lord Mersey's Report as a State when not deliberately intended to deceive, 

 paper. It would certainly not suit the Things are not as they shoidd be in Turkey 

 Board of Trade here, after its whitewashing — far from it — and, as Cherif Pasha says, 



commission of inquiry, to |)rint the Ameri- 

 can Senate's Inquiry Rej)ort as a Blue-book. 

 And now that the whitewashing of the 

 While Star Line and the Board of Trade is 

 completed, it is of interest to the taxpayer 

 to know on whom will fall 

 the cost of Lord Mersey's 

 inquirv, which in the words 

 of Captain Ilampson " has 

 left us just where wc were 

 before the Tilouic Disaster." 

 Since Lord Mersey was com- 

 pelled to lind that the acci- 

 dent was due to the excessive 

 speed of the White Star boat, 

 It would seem natural that 

 the White Star ('ompany 

 should bear the cost. If, 

 however, it is decided that 



the good fruit trees of Europe must be 

 grafted upon the wild trees of Turkey before 

 the internal situation materially improves. 

 Be that as it may, the deposition ot the 

 Committee of Union and Progress from 



Ice on the forecastle of the Allan Liner "Corsican," after striking an 

 iceberg on a recent trip from Montreal. 



