The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-28
OFFICERS
 OF TITANIC
 ARE BLAMED
CAPT. MOORE SAYS FAILURE TO GIVE CORRECT LOCATION
 PREVENTED succoR.
Blames Captain for Rushing at Full Speed Through Ice Feld-Fleet of Steamers Were Within
 Radius of 50 Miles.

Washington April 27-Failure to give her exact position, a great field of floating ice that offered a barrier to ships hurrying to the rescue, and the mistake of her own captain in rushing at top speed through an ice covered sea, all these combined to send the Titanic and her ,6OO victims to their watery grave in the North Atlantic.
 This was strongly indicated today in testimony before the senate com mittee Investigating the ocean tra- gedy.
 Captain James H Moore of the eamer Mount Temple, which was a4 lrried to the Titanic in response to wireless calls for help. told of the great stretch of lee which held him off When within his view from the bridge he discerned another strange steamer, probably tramp" and schooner. which was making her way out of the ice The lights of this schooner, he thought, probably were those seen by the anxious survivors of the Titanic and which they fran tically were trying to reach Captain Moore denounced as most unwise" the action of the Titanic's commanded at rushing at 21 knots an hour when he had been advised of sthe proximity of ice. The Mount uaewuiais.s commander testified that he had spent ? years in the North At Iantic. Whenever ice was around, he said. he doubled his watch and re- duced speed and if he happened to get caught in an lee pack he stopped his engine and drifted until he was clear.
 The witness also was emphatic in his declaring the position sent out by the Titanic was wrong He said the ship was eight miles further eastward than it's operators reported This, he declared, he proved by observations taken the first thing on the day after the disaster
 With what was virtually fleet or steamers within a radius of 90 miles of the Titanic, the officer said this mistake in fixing accurately the posi- ton of the doomed ship was a fatal one With icebergs and floating ice covering tle sea, ship of even the size of the Titanic might we'll be over looked through such variance.
 ]. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the International Mercantile Ma. rine company was much cheered by the testimony of the afternoon. Today he listened eagerly to the accounts oi his conduct at the lifeboats as told by the stewards and seamen who came in contact with him the nigni of the disaster His eyes fairly beam ed when Steward Crawford told how he had said to a woman who told hin she was stewardess, You're wom an; take your place in the lifeboat. After the session was over, the cor ridor in the senate office building near the committee room, was crowd ed with anxious sailors of the Titanic
 
 who have been at the call of the com mittee since the rescue ship Carpa thia brought them to New York The! were nervous lot In fact, the were broke. Not being permitted U leave. they faced the prospect of Saturday night and Sunday withou funds. Most of them are men of fan flies. desirous Of sepding word homo MT. Ismay knew of their circun stances and asked Senator Smith something could not be done for then They are entitled to $i a day in wi ness fees and expenses, but no prep ration had been made to pay tf until they are released.
 "If 1t Is too late to get money t the sailormen" MT Ismay declare q can see that it is advanced.
 Finally Assistant Sergeant at Arn Cornelius found way to cheer tl hearts of the sailors. and they we escorted to the capitol in body al advanced money This made them happy lot.
 The committee has not yet releas' any of the British members Of the