MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1926, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Assoc ation. SUBMARINE SINKS. FURTHER PARTICULARS. LONDON, August 9. The submarine sank suddenly before a large crowd of horrified workmen with sixteen officers and men aboard. The vessel had returned to its moorings, Number Two Basin, after,a short trip round the dock. &ho was undergoing a relit and the workmen had just resumed work upon her when she tilted and liegan to sink alongside the basin wall. Besides the officer blown through the conning tower and six men swept overboard, two or three others released themselves and dived overboard. A largo crowd of workmen rushed to the quayside when the alarm was given and saw the last man to leave the vessel struggling through the hatch as the water surged over her. Most of those rescued were exhausted and were taken to the naval surgery, ft is now known that five men were drowned, nil except the engine-room artificer being dockyard employees. Boats were immediately put out to pick up the men who bad dived overboard. A special apparatus was rushed to the quayside and the task of pumping out the basin begun. The submarine belongs to twenty-eight of II class commissioned in May, 1922. -

SUBMARINE VICTIMS. (Received this day at 9.0 a.m.f ■LONDON, Aug. 10. The bodies of the victims of H. 29 have not yet been recovered. Pumping operations were continued all night but censed this morning owing to tin presenco of other vessels in the basin. Two feet of the submarine’s conning tower is now visible. The vessel lias been made fast to the wall of the basin. The. Admiralty announces an additional life was lost, an engine fitter, who was aboard when the submarine sank and must have been killed. ' LONDON, Aug. 10.

In reference to the submarine disaster it is suggested it was due to the after tanks being flooded to enable an examination of the how, hut the ropes holding the bow parted causing a list and inrush. „

MIGRATION AH If ANG FOMENTS LONDON, August 10

The New Zealand Office lias arranged with the War Office Settlement Committee to take migrating time-expired soldiers’ wives and families direct to New Zealand from military stations overseas where they have concluded service, .avoiding the task of returning to Britain. The examination and inquiry will be entrusted to army medical officers. N.Z. RAILWAY OFFICIALS. LONDON, August 10. F. C. Widrop (Chief Officer of New Zealand Railways) and J. S. Hunter (Secretary) toured the railway workshops in connection with. New Zealand’s reorganisation scheme, inspecting the principal terminals to secure tenders for terminals for Auckland and Wellington. LONDON, August 10. Lord Eldon fell dead in a West End Street. STARTING RULES. [‘‘Sydney Sun” Cables.] (Received this day at 12.25 p.mA HAGUE, August 10. The International Athletic Congress hns laid down new ' rules governing starts. No part of the runner miist touch the ground in front of the starting lino. Rocking starts are forbidden. The whole body must he motionless before the pistol is fired.

FRENCH POLITICS. PARIS. August 10. The Assembly carried an amendment to the Constitution regarding the sinking fund by 671 to 144. GERMAN FINANCE. PARTS, August 10. Revised German reparations figures, all in thousand, gold marks are receipts during July 13,023, making a total revenue, for eleven months of the second Dawes year of 1,010,074, whereto is added the balance at the end of August, 1925, namely 107,013, making the total cash available 1,117,08 (. MINERS REJECT BISHOPS’ PROPOSAL. (Received this dav at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, August 10. Miners voting in the districts on Bishops memorandum (cabled on 30th July) resulted in its rejection.