To the Editor of the "Nortu-Carsa Datty News."
S1r,—The result of the Egypt inquiry and the harsh judgement and remarks which the President of the Court passed, will I am certain be received by the majority of seamen with sympathy for her commander and officers, and consternation that the final verdict, should, in the opinion of. the Court, be justified.
In the cabled account of the inquiry various opinions were given by passengers concerning panic which they alleged seized the crew after the collision. Is this not a most difficult situation for the landsman correctly to judge? I was a Witness in 1917 at near range, of the torpedoing and sinking in rough weather of two large Government vessels. The landsman's
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