New-York tribune., 1912-04-16
LONDON HEARS LATE
OF LOSS OF TITANIC
Newspapers Went to Press Sup
posing All on Board the
Ship Were Safe.
CROWD COMPANY'S OFFICES
Throngs Besiege the Place, Max
ing Inquiries in Vain for
Particulars of the
Disaster.

London. April 16 (Tuesday).-Some Of
che London newspapers went to press
This morning under the belief that all
aboard the Titanic were safe, and that
the vessel was proceeding for Halifax.
These in editorials congratulate all con-
reerYied that mans inventive genius has
freduced the perils of a sea voyage to a
minimum.
Later dispatches recording the sinking
of the Titanic, with loss of life, appear
only in the very latest editions. and the
terrible extent of the disaster will not
become known TO the British public gen.
orally until much later in the day.
All news on the subject still comes ex-
clusively from New York. No wireless
communication appears to have been es-
tablished with this side.
A dispatch just received from Liver
pool says that the White Star officials
have received information from the
Olympic of the sinking Of the Titanic
and of the saving of many of the pas
sengers and crew, and adds that the of
fees of the company are besieged by
friends of the passengers making in
quiries.
Writing under the impression that the
Titanic was saved, the newspapers call
attention 10 the absence of any drydock
on the American seaboard large enough
to accommodate such a vessel, and also
to the coincidence of accidents happen
ing TO the sister ships Olympic and IT.
: tanic.
Exciting scenes were witnessed at
Lloyds underwriting rooms yesterday.
Insurance losses in the last six months
have been unparalleled in the history of
Lloyds in liners of the biggest class.
Since the Olympic collision. both the
Delhi and Oceana have been wrecked,
and now comes the disaster TO the Ii
tanic
When business opened there was a
rush to reinsure. Fifty guineas per cent
was charged, and this rapidly rose to
sixty, but later dropped to twenty five
on the news that the Titanic was being
'stowed to Halifax
II is understood that there was no
specie aboard the liner, but large insur-
ances had been written on diamonds and
other valuables in her cargo.
Up TO $50 o'clock this morning the
White Star officials at Liverpool had no
further news concerning the Titanic.
Brief wireless messages from Cape Race
have been received but they are iden-
teal with those from New York.
oil af H.. ;csc
belong in Southampton, where the
greatest anxiety prevails as TO their
fate.
49, Interviews are published here with au-
thorities relative to the possible cause of
the disaster. Much attention is called
to the question as TO whether il was pos
sible that suction could have had any
thing to do with il, and it is pointed out
that this question came up in the inquiry
into the Olympic Hawke collision. 1t is
considered by some not impossible that
the effect Of suction near an iceberg
might be 10 draw the vessel out Of her
course.
Sir Ernest II. Shackleton points out
that the scene of the Titanic disaster
was fourteen miles south Of the sup
posed possible range Of ice fields.
Sir William White, the famous naval
constructor considers that there can be
no question Of suction in the case Of the
Titanic, because suction, he says de-
pends upon relative speeds, and an ice
berg is almost stationary. He thinks
that the Titanic simply struck an ice