18 JULY 1914, Page 2

The Royal Commission which inquired into the loss of the

'Empress of Ireland' issued its report last Saturday. The ' Storstad ' was found solely to blame through having changed her course after entering the fog. Mr. Tuftenes, the chief officer of the Storstad,' who was on the bridge at the time, was further blamed for not having called the captain when the fog came on. Captain Kendall, it was held, might have been better advised to give the Storstad ' a wider berth, but his stopping of his engines was not unseamanlike, nor was it a contributory cause of the disaster. The crews of both ships behaved well in the emergency. The disaster was not due to any dangers peculiar to the navigation of the St. Lawrence. Finally, certain recommendations were made. We have written of these elsewhere.