New York, Nov. 16.
Six passengers of the Vestric who have been examined by United States attorney before a United States commissioner have} declared that as far as they were able to judge the suddenness of the vessel's final plunge found the officers and crew unprepared for marked absence of discipline, no orders were given and that it, was the passengers rather than the crew who appeared collected, The witnesses alleged that the life-boats leaked and that food, flares and ours were mission from them, One witness, Mr. Pred-erick Puppe, who lost his wife and child, testified that members of the jerew ran from boat to boat and he expressed the opinion that they were collecting the best equipment} for their own boat. He alleged! that husbands, quoting his own ease: as an instance, were ordered out It is expected that the Chamber of Deputies will dispose of inter. pellations to-night and begin a discussion of the Budget to-morrow.
Before the Chamber adjourned it passed a vote of confidence in the reconstituted Poincaré Ministry by 880 votes to 129.
The Radical-Socialist Deputies tained from participating in the of confidence.
In the course of the debate before the vote, the Premier, M. Poineard, affirmed the reparations formula the French Government, which was, briefly: the acceptance of a settlement of the reparations problem! which would allow France to pay. her creditors, the United Kingdom and the United States, with the indemnity she receives from Germany.—Reuter,
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