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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 9, 4 October 1937, Page 7

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===== II., . (By Telegraph— Preiii Assn.-rCopyrigK.) t Attack with Shotgun A mcssage from Woonsocket (Rhode Island) statea that an unidentified person successively fired a shotgun at windows xn the homea of the Mayor, Police Commissioner and several judges and aldermen in widely separated parts of the city at an eariy hour on Saturday morning. A motor-cycle police squad was ordered out after the sniper. One policeman wau killed as a reqult of his motor-cycle erashing. Golfers Strike Four hundred Surrey golfers slvack as a protest against the raising of green fees on the Mitcham public course from 1/6 to 2/- a • round and from '2/6 to 3/- a day." Germans Scoop Pool At Donington Park, where hundreda of G.erman officerp were interne.d in wartime, German motorista for ihe first time competing in Britain triumphed in the ' International Grand^ Pxix of 250 miles. Five out of the seven cara that Herr Hitler ordered to go all out to win were the only onea to finish. The British and Italians were flagged out aa they did not complete the distance within the time limit. Rosemeyer, idriving an Auto-Union, won in 3 hours 1 minute. Several boolcmakera absconded, so that Germans backing their countrymeu were defrauded. They lost £50. Soviet 4 Executions Seventeen have been executed at Leningrad. .They were charged with being agents of the German Secret Police and causing explosi,ons in chemical works. Scenery Preservation The National Trust of Great Britain 's appeal for £8500 for the preservation of the southern part oi the Malvern Hills has been successfully qorapleted and the.schemo, which providos for the preservation by covenants of some 125Q acres, will be cafried through as xapjdly as possible. Crash in Flames An aeroplane containing two men audi a woman flying to the motor races at Donnington crashed in flames, the occupanta being burned to death, xeporta a London cable. / Air-Liner Missing A French air liner, flying between Dalcar and Gabon, has been lost in the Ilatara Ranges. Military aircrftft a'rg seareking. Missing Huntsman Soldiers soarehing the Agen Woods in Franco for a huntsman named Gaubert. whp had boen missing for eight days, saw two feet wcakly moving proIruding from the bracken. They found Gaubert wedged in a burrow f rom„whieh vrliieh he had tried to retneve a woun- , ded rabbit, He was on. tho point of eoilapse from starvation. ^ Berlin Protest | A Berlin message says it is under- ■ stood that the German Governmcnt is in- 1 structing Herr von Ribbentrop ofiieially to prolost to the British Qovornment against the Labour member of the House of Commons, Mr Alfred Barnes, who in a recent speech.at Eastham described Herr Hitler and Signor Musso- i Uai jLs "gangatera. ' *