BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1926, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] AUSTRIAN FLOODS. VIENNA, July 4. The fourth week’s downpour, between tho Alps and Black Sea was the heaviest for half a century. Enormoiw. • damage was done, with heavy losses ofi ‘ life and live stock. The railways are inundated ’ and bridges destroyed. Scores of villages and towns were flooded and thousands of acres submerged. One hundred people were drowned and fifty persons struck hv lightning in Serbia. Two hundred and nine wego drowned in Roumania. BERLIN, July 4. Remarkable cloudbursts followed a fortnight’s unseasonable rains, causing unprecedented floods around berg which carried away houses, andy - - concrete bridges. Five tourists Hermsdorf were watching the current from a bridge which "‘as swept away, drowning the quintette. A mother who saved seven children at Agnetendorf went hack to save a goat but was ~ drowned in the attempt.

ANARCHIST PLOT. LONDON, July 5. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Paris correspondent states Uiot the men, Ascaso and Dunatti, arrested over the plot against King Alfonso, when interrogated by tho Magistrate, denied tifat they intended to kill King Alfonso. Duratti said that he mine to Franco to kidnap King Alfonso. Ho said he hoped to hold up tile train with the help of his anarchist friends, and to hide the King without doing hint bodily harm, until a report of .his death was widely accepted. He Slid the idea was that many officers in the Spanish Army were in sympathy with the anarchist ideal, but that they felt bound by their oath of loyalty to the King, not to take part in overthrowing the dictatorship. Ascaso stilted that ho was not a" are of tho attempt on tho King. was only smuggling arms over tho japan- / ish frontier. Both admitted that they possessed false passports, and that they had leoeived money from French rind Argentine anarchists.

AN ENGLISH TRAGEDY. LONDON, July 5. Afiss Christian Cordell, after a weekending with relations went to cycle home. Later she was discovered in a ditch fit Waltham Abbey, with her head blown, away by a “humane kii-. lev,” used in slaughtering animals. Pavctt, a farmer and a married man ; has been arrested in connection with the tragedy. , ' ) COLONEL MUII.DEiySD IN INDIA. DELHI, July 4. Advices from Lucknow state that Colonel Bransbury, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, was murdered on Saturday by a bearer. CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT. PARIS, July 5. • It is officially stated that the accident to the Havre express was due to taking too quickly a bend oh to a branch line, to which the train had to be diverted owing to the subsidenccVif the groundGs the result of a rainstorm, which may have prevented the driver. . from.seeing a slow-up signal. r-^-w. Those killed in the accident included tlio English jockey, Wilcocks, who was returning home after riding at the Rouen meeting. The train was trav- v oiling at fifty miles an hour. BelchingV' steam terribly scalded many of those imprisoned in the wreckage.

“THE UNKNOWN SCOUT.” LONDON, July 5. The Prince of AALules attended the dedication of a bronze buffalo at fillwell, in Essex, inscribed as follows: “To ‘The Unknown Scout,’ whose faithfulness in the performance of a diiily good turn brought the Boy i

Scout movement to the United States. The unknown scout once showed Mr William. Boyce, an American visitor, to his destination, and refusing a lip, he said: “No thanks, lam a Boy Scout.’.’ Air Boyce thereupon determined to initiate the movement in tho United Sbites, where there are now 750 thousand members.