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SToLlD BRITISH PRESS.
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Shines in the Victoria
Incident.
BIZ Gable to the United Press.

BIZ Cdbte to the U7lafed FreSs.
LONDON. June 81, 1851 any proof
was required as to the astonishing. lack
Of enterprise on the part of the English
press it is furnished by their apathy re-
garding the terrible disaster to the battle
ship Victoria. No story of the accident.
which occurred on Thursday last, reach
London until today.
Rear Admiral Markham's first message
officially reporting the disaster arrived
at the Admiralty Ofllcs Thursday night.
sleepy clerk at the Office did not think
the despatch Of sufficient Importance to
open it. and left 1t lying on desk until
hundreds of inquiries from private In
dividuRls who mad received personal
dispatches began to be received, when
he awoke to the fact that the unopened
envelope might contain something that
would throw some light upon the sub
Ject OF tile inquiries.
None of the English papers had re-
norters at Trinoli or Beyrout, but the
Times and Standard could easily have
sent their reporter from Port Said or
Alexandria, the former place being only
three hundred miles from the scene OF
the accident and the latter four hundred
miles. On Monday, three and half days
after it was known the Victoria had
foundered, the Times published mere
scrap of Information. Even today 1t has
only short despatch from Beyrout. fur
nfshed by Reuters Telegram Company,
and this dispatch 1t discredits In an
editorial note.
The Standard today publishes dis
patch from Port Said, the tenor of which
Is similar TO that furnished by Reuters
Telegram Company.
AS soon as the fact of the disaster was
known in London, the representative OF
the United Press telegraphed to q firm OF
ship agents in Beyrout. making arrange
ments with them to furnish him with a
full story OF the accident for transmission
to the newspapers OF the United States
Owing to the distance Of BeyrouG from
the scene OF the accident, the difficulty OF
getting the men of the feet to talk. Rear
Admiral Markham keeping them within
strict bounds, and the slowness OF the
Turkish telegraph officials, much delay
was experienced in getting story TO
London. The United Press's report of
the affair was filed In the telegraph off1cs
Sunday morning, but 1T did not reach
London until last night
The representative of the q nited Press
had also made arrangements for full
story upon the arrival of any of the
British feet at Malta. The report furnish
ed last night by the United Press is far
fuller story than anything that has yet
been printed in the London papers.
Reuters Telegram Company furnished
the English papers which get news from
1t. a short and meagre despatch from
Port Said.
The only fresh point furnished by the
English papers is a most ridiculous pic
ture OF Vice Admiral Tfyon sinking be-
meath the water and at the same time
waving telescope at Rear Admiral
Markham, who stands on the bridge Of
the Camperdown.
Services in memory Of Admiral Sir
George Tryon were held today In ST.
Admiral Tryon was an active member.
The services were largely attended.
Among those present were Indy
Clementina Tryou, widow of the Vtos
Admiral, and the mem bers of h Ell family:
tue Duke of Edinburgh, Admiral OF the
fleet. the Duke OF Cambridge, Commatl-
der-in-Chief of Her Majesty's forces;
Earl Spencer, First Lord of the
Admiralty: the Right Honorable
George /. .Goschen. formerly Chancellor OF
the ExcheQuer; Mrs Gladstone, wife OF
the Prime Minister, and large number
of high naval aud military officers.
The services, though simple, were ex-
tremeIy impressive. following so closely
as they did upon The disaster The al
ways touching burial service OF the
Church of England was read. after which
the organ pealed forth the solemn
strains of the dead march in Saul"
The Vicar of St. Peters, who ofiiciated
at the services, paid most touching
tribute to the dead Vice Admirai. point
ing out his unspotted character, his
Christian life and his great worth as
man and as devoted servant of the
Government. He dialated upon the dis
aster and drew from the death of Vice
Admiral Tyron a lesson, which, he SAID,
should be learned by all persons. not
alone in official life. but in private life as
well. This lesson, he said, was to do
ones duty in the face of all danger even
though certain death stared 10 the facs.
The battleship Triumph, the flags hip
port guard ship at Queenstown, has
sailed from that port for Malta for the
purpose of conveying to Englsnd The
survivors of the disaster, who are ex-
pected to arrive at Malta shortly.