NEWS BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 102, 17 May 1937, Page 6

NEWS BREVITIES

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Hindenburg Crash Dr. Hugo Eckener and his companions of the German Air Ministry board of inquiry into the disaster to the Zeppclin Hindenburg have joined the United States Bureau of Commerce investigators, and in the capacities of advisers and observens inspected tha wreckage and newsreels of the scene, but they withheld comment until the inquiry ends. — Lakehurst. Pope Suffers Relapse Ddsquieting reports concerning the Pope health have been received from the ' Gastel Grandolf o, his Holiness 'a summer residence. The reports state ' th^at he is again suffering from palpitation and spells of difficult breathing. — Rome.

First Mike Crash A young man with an' Irish accent achieved the first "mike crash." He entered the British Broadcasting Corporation's observation box at Greea Park outside Buckingham Palace last night, and telling the engineer he was deputed to comment on the crowd to comment on the crowd scenes, he broadcast a staccato commentary for two minutes before the control-room at Broadcasting House realised that «omething was wrong. The Corporation admits, that it was badly hoaxed and ie letting the matter drop. — London. Aeroplane Wrecked When a Gipsy Moth aeroplane belonging to the Queensland Aero Club crashed into a creek, near Bundamba Racecourse this afternoon^ Douglas O'Loam, aged 21, a passenger, was killed, and Owen Price, aged 21, was soverely injured. The maehine wa* wrecked. The occupants were practismg making forced landings, and * had landed fqur times before the crash.— Brisban*.

Haeked By Shark, A young man, William Tennant, m attempting to swirn across Bose Creek at Townsville was attacked by a shark when ten yards from the shore that he was trying to reach. Tennant was taken ashore by a ferryman but he died on the way to the hospitak He lost most hie left arm and right leg, while his right arm was badly gashed. Earlier dn the week a 6001b. shark was caught in Ross Creek about 100 yarde from where thie tragedy occurred.— Brisbane. Mandates Must Go Lecturing at the Academy oi German Law, Baron von Loringhoven declared that mandates must disappear if the world were to have peace. They had failed in Iraq, Syria and Palestine. "It remains to be seen whether England and Franee are able to maintain their dnfluenee in the Near East. The Raw Materials Commission had made a clumsy attempt to sidetraek the issue, he dcclai'ed. — Berlin