THE UNITED STATES SYMPATHIZES
President Wilson also sent a message of condolence to King George.
“I beg of Your Majesty,” the President cabled, “to accept my deepest sympathy in the appalling catastrophe to the steamship Empress of Ireland which has brought bereavement to so many English homes.”
Secretary Bryan instructed Ambassador Page in London to call at the British Foreign Office and express the United States Government’s condolences and his own.
The Transatlantic Society of America through its Secretary, E. Waring Wilson, cabled the United States Ambassador in London, requesting him to transmit to King George a message of sympathy for the loss of life in the disaster to the Empress of Ireland. Condolences were also wired to the Governor-General of Canada at Ottawa.
President McAneny, of the Board of Aldermen of New York City, who had just returned from a conference on city planning in Toronto, sent the following telegram to the Duke of Connaught regarding the loss in the sea disaster:
“On behalf of those Americans who have just returned from the City Planning Conference at Toronto, and to whom the hospitality of Canada had so generously been given, I extend deepest sympathy to you and to the Canadian people upon your tragic loss of to-day.”
Mayor Mitchel also forwarded his sympathy:
“The city of New York sends sincere sympathy to the people of Canada who have suffered through the tragedy on the Gulf of St. Lawrence.”