re of the orphaned
children of the crew.

Large firms contributed liberally to the various relief funds, while
Covent Garden and other leading theaters prepared special performances
to aid in the relief work.

INDIGNANT GERMANY DEMANDS REFORMS

All Germany as well as England was stunned and grieved by the magnitude
of the horror of the Titanic catastrophe. Anglo-German recriminations
for the moment ceased, as far as the Fatherland was concerned, and
profound and sincere compassion for the nation on whom the blow had
fallen more heavily was the supreme note of the hour.

The Kaiser, with his characteristic promptitude, was one of the first
to communicate his sympathy by telegraph to King George and to the White
Star Line. Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia did likewise, and the first
act of the Reichstag, after reassembling on Tuesday, was to pass a
standing vote of condolence with the British people in their distress.

GERMAN LAWS ALSO INADEQUATE

The German laws, governing the safety appliances on board trans-oceanic
vessels, seem to be as archaic and inadequate as those of the British
Board of Trade. The maximum provision contained in the German statutes
refers to vessels with the capacity of 50,000 cubic metres, which must
carry sixteen life-boats. The law also says that if this number of
life-boats be insufficient to accommodate all the persons on board,
including the crew, there shall be carried elsewhere in the vessel a
correspondingly additional number of collapsible life-boats, suitable
rafts, floating deck-chairs and life-buoys, as well as a generous supply
of life-belts.

A vessel of 10,000 tons was a "leviathan" in the days when the German
law was passed, and it appears to have undergone no change to meet the
conditions, imposed by the construction of vessels twice or three times
10,000 tons, like the Hamburg-American Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, or the
North German Lloyd George Washington, to say nothing of the 50,000-ton
Imperator, which is to be added to the Hamburg fleet next year.

The German lines seem, like the White Star Company, to have reckoned
simply with the practical impossibility of a ship like the Titanic
succumbing to the elements

PERSONAL ANXIETY

Although Germany's and Berlin's direct interest in the passengers aboard
the Titanic was less than that of London, New York or Paris, there was
the utmost concern for their fate.

Ambassador Leishman and other members of the American E