But this Chronicle is a history of at least four hundred years; while the famous 'C.P.R. has not as yet been either forty years a railway line or twenty years a shipping firm. There is only one great C.P.R. disaster to record. But that is of appalling magnitude. Over a thousand lives were lost when the Norwegian collier Storstad sank the Empress of Ireland off Rimouski in 1914.

On the face of the facts as known up to now the charge does not seem to be true. If upwards of three hundred people have been, as stated in the last reports, saved by the Storstad, then that ship must have been at hand and rendering all the assistance in her power. As to the point which must come up for the decision of the Court of Inquiry, it is as fine as a hair.