MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1926, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Assoc ation

MOTOR RACING. MADRID, July 26

At San Sebastian, Major Segrave, driving a “Hush Hush” Sunbeam car, had a sensational escape from death, when competing in the Spanish Grand Prix. He was travelling at one hundred miles an hour when the front axle snapped. The two wheels collapsed. and the machine skidded forward on the front section for a few minutes. Then it broke down. Major Segrave miraculously escaped without a scratch. There is no explanation of how the accident occurred. His wife, who was a spectator, saw the front axle wobbling, and she tried frantically to attract her husband’s attention in order to warn him. but tlie speed was too great. A few minutes later the crash came.

Constantine, driving a “Bugatti” car, was the winner. He covered 692 kilometres in 335 minutes.

AIR. TRAGEDY. BERLIN, July 26. An aeroplane was struck by lightning in the North Sea, off the Hanover Coast. Tt crashed ablaze. Four were killed and one seriously injured.

SEAMEN’S ATTITUDE. LONDON, July 24. The National Union of Seamen, at the close of their annual meeting, decided to withdraw forthwith from the International Transport Workers’ Federation, and also to take a ballot on the question of dissociation, from all political affiliations.

EMIGRATION SCHEME. LONDON, July 26. The “Morning Post” has formed a Migration Committee to work in cooperation with the Australian. Government in order to assist two hundred British miners to ho absorbed as agriculturists in the Commonwealth, and thus to demonstrate wlmt can be done with Britain’s surplus labourers. Tho " Editor of the “Post,” Mr Gwynne, is the chairman, and Mr Owen Seamen and Captain Guest. M.P.. are among tho members of the committee. A special representative of the “Morning Post” will accompany the men to Australia in order to describe their reception, and also tho possibility of extending such migration. /

CLASH WITH POLICE. TOKYO, July 26. Riots are now reported at Kisalci, in tho Niigata prefecture, where seven hundred peasants, armed with spears and clubs, clashed with the police." There were thirty arrests. A number were wounded. The riot commenced when the police broke up ia procession which was celebrating tho establishment of a local proletariat school. A NEW MOVEMENT. ROME, July 26. Tho Italian General Fascist Federation of .Industry is now organising cooperative stores throughout the country. These are to supply tlie workers With the necessities of life at a minimum cost. In some cases, indeed, the industrialists are opening their own stores, or are arranging for the existing shops to supply their workers with bread, rice, and other goods at specially cheap prices. • ..