BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION. AIRMAN INJURED. (Received this dav at 11.-15 a.m.) PARIS, June 12. M. Bernard, tho well-known aerial signvriter, was writing the name of a l.vons silk merchant when the aeropiano skidded in mid-air and crashed to tho ground, owing to Bernard having difficulty in doing the letter “1.” Bernard was scut to the ho-pita! in a serious condition. AFFRAY ON SYRIAN FRONTIER (Received this dav at 12.20 p.m.) LONDON. June FI. Advices from Jerusalem state British gendarmerie returning from escorting the High Commissioner iSir M. Samuel) were ambushed on Sunday near the Syrian frontier. Three were killed and three wounded. I heir assailants presumably were Bedouin brigands. It is understood there is considerable anxielv in official quarters regarding the safety of Samuel wdio is camping with an escort of native gendarmerie.

TRAIN SHED EIRE. (Received this day at 12 noun i. NEW YORK. June 12. A fire at Philadelphia, destroyed a train shed of tho l’ennsylva'nia railways. The loss is estimated at a million dollars. FOR THE NORTH POLE. (Received this day at 12.15 p.m.' CHRISTIANIA, dune 12. All the seaplanes have arrived a tKing’s Bay. and have made, successful trial flights. Amund-en's steamer proceeded north yesterday and the seaplanes to-day. The prospects are g 1 ad.