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• Will hang myself if found indulged in corruption: Altaf
• 3 MQM workers gunned down Hyderabad
• CNG stations in Sindh to remain closed for 24 hours
• Cairo police use tear gas to disperse protesters
• China becomes world's fifth largest arms exporter
• Syrian rebels seize arms depots in Aleppo: army
• Palestinian hunger-striker freed to Gaza: Palestinians
• Palestinians unenthusiastic about Obama visit
• Sharapova routs Wozniacki for Indian Wells title
• Lampard nets 200th Chelsea goal
• Messi hits brace in Barcelona's 3-1 win over Rayo
• Golf: Streelman wins Tampa Bay title
• Scientists find active community at Earth's deepest spot
• Buzz Aldrin's 1969 guide to landing on moon for sale
• Is the Titanic violin plucked from the ocean a hoax?

Will hang myself if found indulged in corruption: Altaf Posted: KARACHI (Dunya News) - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain addressing to party workers on the occasion of foundation day of MQM said riddle my body with bullets even then echoes of revolution will rise from every drop of my blood.Altaf Hussain regretted killing of three party workers in Hyderabad who were gunned down when they were busy in arrangements for MQM foundation day celebration.An emotional Altaf Hussain said that I am an ambassador of peace but no one should take it as my weakness. I will return to Pakistan the very moment my nation needed me to fight for its honour.

3 MQM workers gunned down Hyderabad Posted: According to details, some unidentified gunmen riding on motorcycles opened indiscriminate firing on Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) sector office in Site Area in Hyderabad, injuring four MQM workers.The injured were rushed to Civil Hospital Hyderabad where Sher Muhammad, Murtaza and Azeem succumbed to their wounds while condition of Wahid Bakhsh is stated to be critical.Tension gripped the area after the incident and shops and markets were shut down. Meanwhile, police have cordoned off the area and arrested two suspects during raids.

CNG stations in Sindh to remain closed for 24 hours Posted: According to details, CNG stations across Sindh will remain closed for 24 hours due to gas pipeline explosion in Balochistan.According to the Sui Southern Gas Company, the CNG stations across Sindh, including Karachi, will remain closed from 8:00am on Monday to 8:00am on Tuesday.

Cairo police use tear gas to disperse protesters Posted: CAIRO (Agencies) - Egyptian police have used tear gas on a crowd of protesters outside the Muslim Brotherhood's headquarters in Cairo. The demonstrators turned out to condemn what they called an assault on journalists.It comes just one day after an RT cameraman and other journalists were attacked outside the headquarters by Brotherhood supporters.Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of the capital Sunday afternoon, chanting slogans against President Mohamed Morsi and the Islamist group from which he hails.Some of them were holding banners which read, Down with Brotherhood rule.The demonstration turned violent after a group of protesters tried to break through security forces which were guarding the group's headquarters. Officers used teargas to disperse the crowds, while protesters set tires on fire in the street.The newly elected head of the Journalists' Syndicate, Diaa Rashwan, condemned the attacks and called on Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie to apologize. He also urged Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to condemn the assaults.Rashwan did not rule out that the violence against journalists had been carried out under orders from the Muslim Brotherhood's leaders; the reporters were covering a meeting between Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal.At the same time, Brotherhood spokesperson Yasser Mehrez, has denied that his members intentionally attacked the journalists.Clashes erupted because some people tried to break into the Brotherhood’s headquarters. The young members of the Brotherhood did not intend to assault journalists or anyone else,” Ahram Online quoted Mehrez as saying. “Everybody has freedom of expression and the right to protest, but insults and sabotage are unacceptable.The Muslim Brotherhood insisted that guards outside the headquarters were provoked and insulted by the activists and journalists. Reporters said the assault took place after activists sprayed anti-Brotherhood graffiti on the ground outside the headquarters; Brotherhood guards retaliated with sticks and chains.RT’s Mohammad Moukhtar, cameraman for the Arabic department, was among the crowd of journalists filming the activists drawing graffiti. He sustained a head injury while he was trying to protect his camera as a gang of men armed with sticks and knives attacked a group of activists and journalists. Despite Mohammad’s efforts, RT’s camera was broken and stolen. The latest violence against journalists comes amid unceasing unrest in Egypt, with anti-government protests being staged in the capital Cairo and across the entire country.Sunday’s protests at the Journalists' Syndicate in downtown Cairo was the first of three demonstrations the journalists plan to hold. They will gather at the prosecutor-general's office on Tuesday, and outside of the Brotherhood's headquarters on Wednesday.

China becomes world's fifth largest arms exporter Posted: STOCKHOLM (AP) - China has bypassed Britain as the world's fifth largest arms exporter, a Swedish think-tank said Monday.The volume of Chinese weapons exports rose by 162 percent in the five years 2008-2012, compared to the previous five-year period, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said in its report. That means China's share of all international arms exports increased to 5 percent from 2 percent, and the country climbed to fifth from eighth in the rankings.The largest buyer of Chinese weapons was Pakistan, which accounted for 55 percent of the country's exports, followed by Myanmar with 8 percent and Bangladesh with 7 percent, SIPRI said.China's rise has been driven primarily by large-scale arms acquisitions by Pakistan, said Paul Holtom, director of the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme. However, a number of recent deals indicate that China is establishing itself as a significant arms supplier to a growing number of important recipient states.Such deals include the sale of three frigates to Algeria, eight transport aircraft to Venezuela and 54 tanks to Morocco, SIPRI said.The U.S. remains the world's top arms exporter during the 2008-2012 period, with 30 percent of the global volume. Russia is second with 26 percent, Germany third with 7 percent, and France fourth with 6 percent, SIPRI said.China's move into the top-five means Britain (now in sixth place) dropped off the list of the top five for the first time since at least 1950, the earliest year covered by SIPRI data.The institute said Asia dominated the global imports of weapons, with the top five importers all located in that region.

Syrian rebels seize arms depots in Aleppo: army Posted: BEIRUT (AFP) - Syrian rebels have seized several weapons depots in the village of Khan Toman in Aleppo province after days of fierce clashes, a military source told AFP on Sunday.Opposition fighters gained control over weapons and ammunition stores in the village of Khan Toman in southern Aleppo province on Saturday after fierce fighting that went on for more than three days, the source said.He said the stores contained a small number of ammunition boxes remaining after the main stock was transferred over a period of more than four months.But activists said the opposition had taken control of huge reserves, and video posted online showed fighters examining dozens of crates containing weapons and ammunition inside one warehouse.These are spoils from (Syrian President) Bashar al-Assad, the person filming the warehouse says, as fighters move from crate to crate, urging the camera to film the weapons.Rockets, film these rockets, they say. These are 107-mm calibre, made in Iran, they add. These are the rockets that Bashar al-Assad was hitting us with.The video says the capture of the depots was led by the Martyrs of Syria and the Hittin Brigades of the rebel Free Syrian Army.The capture of the arms depots was confirmed by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog, which also reported heavy fighting between regime forces and rebel fighters in the area of Khan Toman on Sunday.The Observatory said most of the warehouses were under the control of Islamist fighters, adding that weapons captured included Grad rockets, mortar and tank shells and hand grenades, as well as three tanks and several military vehicles.In Aleppo, it said, clashes erupted between Islamist fighters belonging to an Islamic court body in the city and members of the rival opposition brigade in the Sakhur neighbourhood.Three civilians were killed, along with four members of the court's police and a judge for the court, the group said, adding that the clashes erupted when members of the body tried to arrest a member of the rival brigade.The dead included the head of the body's police force, the Observatory said, a Syrian who fought in Iraq and was imprisoned there.Elsewhere, pro-regime militants battled Bedouin and opposition fighters in the village of Dama in southern Sweidah.

Palestinian hunger-striker freed to Gaza: Palestinians Posted: GAZA CITY (AFP) - A Palestinian prisoner who was on long-term hunger strike arrived in Gaza on Sunday evening after inking a deal with Israeli officials, Palestinian officials told AFP.Ayman Sharawna reached a deal under which he was freed from prison but exiled from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip for 10 years.He was met at the Erez border crossing from Israel by a Palestinian ambulance which took him to hospital for examination, Palestinian officials at the border said.Sharawna was one of four Palestinian prisoners refusing food for months over the conditions of their detention by Israel, whose cases sparked expressions of concern from the United Nations and the European Union.Earlier on Sunday the Ramallah-based Prisoners' Club told AFP about Sharawna's deal.Palestinian prisoner Ayman Sharawna, who has been on hunger strike since mid-July, has reached a deal with the Israeli side under which he will be released to Gaza and exiled there for 10 years, Qadura Fares, head of the Prisoners' Club said.Israel's Shin Bet security service said that the Hamas activist from the West Bank would be allowed to go home after his exile if he was not involved in future militant activity. It was decided that after 10 years he would be able to return if it is concluded that he has not gone back to terror activity, it said in a statement.Sharawna, 36, is a long-term security prisoner who was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to 38 years behind bars, but released in October 2011 under terms of a prisoner swap deal.But he was rearrested three months later and charged with violating the terms of his release, although the evidence against him was kept secret.He began refusing food in July after Israel threatened to make him serve out the remainder of his original sentence.On February 28, Jaafar Ezzeddine and Tariq Qaadan, ended their three-month hunger strike after refusing food for three months, pending a hearing on their case. Both have been held without trial since November. The fourth hunger striker is Samer Issawi, a security prisoner who is currently being held at Kaplan hospital near Tel Aviv after intermittently refusing food for eight months.Like Sharawna, Issawi was freed under the 2011 swap deal but rearrested last year on charges of violating terms of his release.Last week, Israeli medics raised the alarm over his state of health, informing the Prisoners' Club that he had suffered cardiac failure and was at risk of dying after he stopped taking liquids.

Palestinians unenthusiastic about Obama visit Posted: RAMALLAH (AP) - President Barack Obama will find a disillusioned Palestinian public, skeptical about his commitment to promoting Mideast peace, when he visits the region.Obama's trip, beginning Wednesday, appears aimed primarily at resetting the sometimes troubled relationship with Israel. But winning the trust of the Palestinians, who accuse him of unfairly favoring Israel, could be a far more difficult task.After suffering disappointments during the first Obama administration, Palestinians see little reason for optimism in his new term. The White House announcement that Obama will not present any new peace initiatives strengthened their conviction that the U.S. leader isn't prepared to put the pressure on Israel that they think is necessary to end four years of deadlock in negotiations.Obama is coming for Israel, not for us, said Mohammed Albouz, a 55-year-old Palestinian farmer. Obama will come and go as his predecessors did, without doing anything.While Israel is preparing to give Obama the red-carpet treatment, there are few signs of excitement in the West Bank. Large posters of Obama hung in Ramallah last week were quickly defaced, and a small group of activists called The Campaign for Dignity plans on releasing black balloons into the air in a sign of mourning when Obama arrives.Obama himself played a role in reaching the current deadlock, which stems in large part from disagreements over Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. The Palestinians claim both areas, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, as parts of a future state, a position that is widely backed internationally.When Obama first took office, he strongly and publicly criticized the Israeli settlements, saying the construction undermines hopes for peace. It is time for these settlements to stop, Obama said in a high-profile address to the Muslim world delivered in Cairo just months after taking office.When Benjamin Netanyahu was elected Israeli prime minister in early 2009, the Palestinians said they would not negotiate unless settlement construction was frozen. They were further emboldened by Obama's tough stance.Obama persuaded Netanyahu to impose a 10-month slowdown, but Palestinians did not agree to restart talks until the period was nearly over. When the Israeli moratorium expired several weeks later, Netanyahu rejected American appeals to extend the slowdown, and the negotiations collapsed.Obama stopped pushing the matter, and talks have never resumed, and the Palestinians, viewing Obama as afraid to take on Israel's allies in Washington, have few expectations now.What we are going to tell him behind closed doors is what we are saying in public. There is no secret that a successful peace process needs a complete settlement freeze, said Nabil Shaath, a top adviser to President Mahmoud Abbas. The Israelis are building on our land and claiming they want to negotiate with us about this land.More than 500,000 Israelis now live in settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. The Palestinians say the ever-growing settlements are a sign of bad faith and make it increasingly difficult to partition the land between two peoples.Netanyahu maintains that negotiations must resume without preconditions, and the fate of the settlements should be one of the issues on the table. He notes that previous rounds of negotiations have gone forward without a construction freeze.Obama will get a firsthand glimpse of settlements when he heads to the Palestinian city of Ramallah on Thursday. The 20-minute drive from Jerusalem passes by sprawling settlements that are home to tens of thousands of Israelis.Obama is scheduled to meet with Palestinian leaders and visit a youth center. He plans to head to the West Bank town of Bethlehem the next day to see the Church of the Nativity, built on the site where Christian tradition says Jesus was born.

Sharapova routs Wozniacki for Indian Wells title Posted: INDIAN WELLS (AFP) - Maria Sharapova beat Caroline Wozniacki 6-2, 6-2 on Sunday to win her second Indian Wells WTA title in emphatic style.The 25-year-old Russian, already projected to supplant Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka at No. 2 in world rankings by reaching her first final of the season, broke Wozniacki twice in each set en route to the victory in one hour and 21 minutes.The win in a match between former champions gave her a second title to go with the Indian Wells crown she claimed in 2006.It was Sharapova's first title since her 2012 French Open triumph gave her a career Grand Slam, and stretched her streak of years with at least one title to 11.Sharapova put her foot on the gas early with a break in the first game and didn't let up, firing winners off both wings and peppering Wozniacki with four aces.She broke Wozniacki again in the seventh game, her only hiccup coming as she served for the set at 5-2 and made two errors to give Wozniacki a double break point.Sharapova saved both with backhand winners, then sealed the set with an ace and a forehand winner.The Russian opened the second set with another break, Wozniacki a bit unlucky with a double fault on break point as her second serve bounced off the net cord.Wozniacki worked hard to extend the rallies, but she couldn't penetrate Sharapova's serve, her consultation with her coach in each set apparently giving her few new clues on how to do so.Sharapova broke her again for a 5-2 lead, and served it out with a love game punctuated by a service winner on match point.Wozniacki, a former world No. 1 who owns 20 WTA titles, has still never beaten a top-three player in a final.

Lampard nets 200th Chelsea goal Posted: LONDON (AFP) - Frank Lampard scored the 200th goal of his illustrious Chelsea career on Sunday as the England midfielder once again tormented his former club West Ham.Lampard had been stuck on 199 goals for the last month but after four scoreless games he finally reached the landmark when he netted in the 19th minute of the London derby at Stamford Bridge.The 34-year-old, fittingly named as Chelsea's captain on Sunday, was picked out by an Eden Hazard cross and took advantage of woeful West Ham marking to power a header past Jussi Jaaskelainen.Lampard, who joined Chelsea from West Ham for 11 millon in June 2011, is now just two goals behind Bobby Tambling's all-time record for the west Londoners.It is one of my best days. Obviously, winning the Champions League and championships are the best, but personally getting 200 goals for the club, I never thought I would touch that so I'm pleased to get it, Lampard said.Everyone keeps talking about the goalscoring record, I would rather people kept quiet. The important thing is trying to score goals to win games.We are in good form and everyone is at it. There is a good feeling around the place and we need to carry it on until the end of the season.Blues interim manager Rafael Benitez claimed he felt Lampard would reach the milestone against West Ham because he was timing his runs into the penalty area so well.We were expecting him to score today because the team were creating chances and he was at the end of the crosses, Benitez said.I'm happy he has scored 200 goals. It's a fantastic achievement for any player, especially someone like him.We are happy because the team is winning and he has broken a great record. Hopefully he can score more goals.

Messi hits brace in Barcelona's 3-1 win over Rayo Posted: BARCELONA (AP) - Lionel Messi extended his Spanish league scoring record to 18 straight games with a brace in Barcelona's 3-1 win over visiting Rayo Vallecano on Sunday, making sure the leader avoided a letdown after its historic Champions League comeback against AC Milan.Messi set up David Villa to score Barcelona's opener in the 25th minute, and Villa returned the favor in the 40th for Messi to take his first goal.Villa linked up with Messi again in the 57th as the Argentina forward used a delicate chip shot to net his league-leading 42nd goal of the season and put the result beyond doubt.The three goals were all similar and I am just happy to have participated in all three to give us the win, Villa said.The victory restored Barcelona's 13-point lead over Real Madrid, with Atletico Madrid a further one back after winning 2-0 at Osasuna thanks to Diego Costa's double.Messi scored Barcelona's first two goals in Tuesday's 4-0 win over Milan as it became the first team to overturn a 2-0 first-leg away loss in the Champions League and reached the quarterfinals.Villa also polished off a memorable week that started with him scoring the goal that gave Barcelona the lead on aggregate against Milan.It was a complicated game because of the effort we made the other day, Villa said. You could see that we hadn't had time to rest, and that's tough against a team like Rayo that comes at you as compared to many other teams that try to close up when they play here.It was Messi's 19th multi-goal game of the season. His 210th and 211th league goals took the 25-year-old Messi past Pahino into seventh place on the career scoring list.The four-time world player of the year scored 50 goals in the league last season to shatter a milestone that Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo had left at 40 the year before. He now has 10 more games to shoot for his own mark.

Golf: Streelman wins Tampa Bay title Posted: PALM HARBOR (AFP) - Kevin Streelman, who went winless in his first 152 US PGA Tour events, finally captured his first title on Sunday with a two-stroke victory at the $5.5 million Tampa Bay Championship.The 34-year-old American, whose best prior PGA result was a share of third at Puerto Rico in 2011, fired a bogey-free final round of four-under par-67 to finish 72 holes on 10-under 274 and defeat countryman Boo Weekley by two shots.It wasn't too long ago I was driving around in a car dead broke, Streelman said. But it shows if you keep working hard and stay patient, you can accomplish something.Streelman birdied two of the first three holes and added birdies at the par-3 13th and 17th holes to secure the victory, his 19-foot birdie putt at the penultimate hole and a par at the last good enough for the $990,000 top prize.That was really cool, Streelman said. I just stayed really patient. I had a peace about me all day today. It was awesome.You've got to pick your battles. I had a couple numbers on the par-3s that I was able to pull off.Streelman put his tee shot at the par-3 13th hole six feet (1.8 meters) from the cup and sank the putt to take the lead for good, calling his approach the best shot probably of my life in that situation.Weekley, who was in the clubhouse while the 54-hole leaders were barely on the course, fired a 63 to leap from six strokes off the pace and a share of 35th when the round began to the top of the leaderboard, only to finish second.American Cameron Tringale was third on 277 with defending champion Luke Donald of England, Australian Greg Chalmers and American Justin Leonard sharing fourth on 278.

Scientists find active community at Earth's deepest spot Posted: PARIS (AFP) - Scientists said Sunday they had discovered an unexpectedly large and active community of single-cell organisms living on the Pacific sea floor at the deepest site on Earth.The surprisingly active community of microbes exists about 11 kilometres (seven miles) below sea level in the Mariana Trench, one of the worlds most inaccessible places, some 200 miles southwest of the Pacific island of Guam.Surprisingly, researchers found the trench housed almost 10 times more bacteria than a nearby six-kilometre deep site, living on organic waste from dead sea animals, algae and other microbes that settle on the ocean floor.Many scientists had thought that the deeper the floor below sea level, the more deprived it would be of food -- which has to float all the way from the oxygen-rich surface to the bottom of the ocean.In fact, the team found the Mariana Trench was unexpectedly rich in organic matter.Their analysis document that a highly active bacteria community exists in the sediment of the trench, even though the environment is under extreme pressure almost 1,100 times higher than at sea level, said a press statement.Mariana Trench made headlines a year ago when Hollywood director James Cameron made historys first solo trip by submarine to the bottom.He described a desolate and alien environment.Because of its extreme depth, the Mariana Trench is cloaked in perpetual darkness with temperatures just a few degrees above freezing.The water pressure at the bottom is a crushing eight tons per square inch -- about a thousand times the standard atmospheric pressure at sea level.Before Cameron, the trench had been visited only once before, and briefly, by a two-man crew in 1960.For the latest study, an international research team used a specially designed underwater robot with ultrathin sensors to probe the seabed for oxygen consumption in a 2010 expedition.Scientists cannot remove samples to study in the laboratory as many of the microorganisms specially adapted to life at these extreme conditions will die due to changes in temperature and pressure.The team also made videos of the bottom of the trench and confirmed there were very few large animals at these depths.Rather, we find a world dominated by microbes that are adapted to function effectively at conditions highly inhospitable to most higher organisms, said team leader Ronnie Glud from the University of Southern Denmarks Nordic Centre for Earth Evolution.Mariana Trench is a crescent-shaped scar in the Earths crust, more than 1,500 miles (2,550 kilometres) long and 43 miles (69 kilometres) wide on average.

Buzz Aldrin's 1969 guide to landing on moon for sale Posted: (Web Desk - The notes were part of Aldrins own manual used while Armstrong piloted the Lunar Module Eagle towards the Moon in 1969.Also included in the sale is a second-by-second account by Aldrin of the fraught final minutes as the Module approached the surface of the moon.It reveals that the first words spoken on the surface were Contact Light, spoken by Aldrin to confirm touch down.The primary guidance and navigation papers also have computer procedures on how to perform the lunar lift-off to enable the pair to leave the Moon.The papers would also have shown the astronauts how to lift off from the Moon if an emergency arose.Aldrin is selling the sheets after a change in the law last year paved the way for Apollo astronauts to retain legal ownership of items they kept from their missions. It is thought they will raise around £60,000.A letter by Aldrin which accompanies the sheets tells just how dramatic the famous Moon landing was.In the letter Aldrin describes the moment an alarm sounded when the astronauts were close to landing on the moon.The crafts computer was loaded with so many tasks the alarm kept sounding - meaning the men were behind in the jobs they needed to do before they could safely land.Aldrins letter states: The lunar landing was an experience I will always remember...some eight minutes into our descent engine burn, we started our most challenging part of the landing - the approach phase sequence.We were behind on flight tasks due to the distractions caused by the alarms. Neil was monitoring our instruments and the visual view out his window.Neils flying tasks suddenly became more complicated because the computer was sending us into a large crater containing and surrounded by boulders.At about 500 feet above the lunar surface, Neil Armstrong entered the commands to manually fly Eagle to the lunar surface with computer support.He slowed the descent rate to just a few feet per second and studied the surrounding terrain.Neil asked me about our fuel status and I indicated we had eight per cent remaining.I was then able to glance outside and began to understand why the landing sequence was taking longer than planned - the craters, rocks and boulders seemed to be everywhere.Mission Control radioed we had 60 seconds of fuel remaining. Then 30 seconds rang in our headsets.Neil was almost to the surface when a haze of dust was kicked up by engine exhaust. He could not see the surface and had to locate something just above the dust cloud.Finally Neil was able to see a rock that appeared fixed in the stream of dust. This gave him a surface reference.Just as Neil placed Eagle gently on the lunar surface, I spoke the first words from the Moon: CONTACT LIGHT This was the indicator light on our control panel that told us that Eagle had touched the lunar surface.We only had about 20 seconds of fuel remaining onboard.Matthew Haley, specialist in space history at auctioneers Bonhams, said: Apollo 11 is pretty much the high point of the American space programme and the highlight of space exploration full stop as it was the first manned lunar landing.These documents have been to the Moon and back are the equivalent of Christoper Columbuss logbook.They might appeal to an institution but this market is very much dominated by private collectors.The cards are pretty technical so having the letter from Buzz Aldrin with them is the icing on the cake as it helps explain just how relevant the cards were.The key points are the printed text about the powered ascent, when they come back from the surface of the Moon after becoming the first people to step on it.They would have been getting instructions from Mission Control throughout, hence the annotations.The sheets will be sold by Bonhams auctioneers in New York on March 25.

Is the Titanic violin plucked from the ocean a hoax? Posted: WILTSHIRE (Web Desk) - Titanic auctioneers Henry Aldridge and Son claimed last week they spent seven years proving a violin played by Wallace on board the fatal ship has been found and it is going on display in Belfast at the end of the month.The instrument was discovered in an attic in 2006 and tests carried out by scientists are said to have verified it was 34 year-old Wallaces violin, whose band famously played on as the ship sank in 1912. The band members were among the 1,500 who died.The auctioneers, based in Wiltshire, admitted that if proved wrong they would have been victims of an extremely elaborate hoax up there with the Hitler Diaries.But no reports at the time mentioned his violin being recovered with Wallaces body according to Nigel Hampson, curator of the Titanic in Lancashire museum, and an expert on the Colne-born musician.He said: The historical record does not show that Wallace was recovered with his violin strapped to his body – it actually proves the opposite.The inventory of items recovered on Wallaces body makes no mention whatsoever of a violin or music case or anything similar being found with him.We are supposed to believe that when the ship sinks and everyone, the band included, are fighting for their lives, Wallace is more concerned with the fate of his instrument than his life?We are also supposed to believe that the violin survives almost two weeks in the sea and emerges intact?The local press in Colne make no mention of his violin whatsoever. If Wallace had indeed been recovered with his violin after the disaster, they would have been all over the story and given it massive coverage.This violin clearly is a Wallace Hartley instrument, but to claim that it is the violin that he had with him on the Titanic is preposterous and is not backed up by the historical record.Auctioneers Henry Aldridge and Son claim a violin played by the bandmaster on board the fatal ship is to go on display in Belfast at the end of the month.The instrument was discovered in an attic in 2006 and tests carried out by scientists are said to have verified it was Wallaces violin.Andrew Aldridge, of Henry Aldridge and Son, said: When we first saw the violin we had to keep a lid on our excitement because it was almost as if it was too good to be true.The silver fish plate on the violin along with the other items it was with, such as the leather case with Hartleys initials on, his jewellery and covering letter to the owners late mother, suggested it was either authentic or an extremely elaborate hoax up there with the Hitler Diaries.We knew we would have to look into it and it couldnt be rushed. Everything needed to be researched properly and the correct experts had to be commissioned.We have spent the last seven years gathering the evidence together and have now reached the stage where we can say that beyond reasonable doubt this was Wallace Hartleys violin on the Titanic.We now know that minutes before the end he placed his beloved violin in this hard-wearing travelling case.The bag rested on top of his life jacket and would have largely been kept out of the water. A letter from his mother was found in his breast pocket and that suffered hardly any water damage.The tests were carried out by a range of specialists including the government Forensic Science Service which concluded the corrosion deposits on it were considered compatible with immersion in seawater.The Musicians of the RMS Titanic all perished with the ship when it sank. They played music, intending to calm the passengers, for as long as they possibly could and all went down with the ship. All were recognised for their heroism.The ships eight-member orchestra boarded at Southampton and travelled as second-class passengers.They were not on the payroll of the White Star Line, but were contracted to White Star by the Liverpool firm of C.W. & F.N. Black, who placed musicians on almost all British liners.The eight are all listed on The Titanic Musicians Memorial in Southampton, Hants – they are Georges (OK) Krins, John Hume, Wallace Hartley, Roger Bricoux, Theodore Brailey, Percy Taylor, John Woodward and John Clarke.Wallace Hartleys body was recovered about 10 days after the doomed liner sank but the violin was not listed among the inventory of items found with him.

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