BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1926, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuter Telegrams.] BRITISH AIR TRAGEDY. LONDON, Aug. 31. The twelfth Royal Air Force fatality in August occurred at tho New Forest, where an officer named Allred Page, crashed into a tree, and was killed. Tho mechanic i.s in a critical condition. THE TURKISH EXECUTIONS. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 1. The Tribunal at Angora sentenced to death Abdul Cadir in connection with the recent Smyrna plot, and granted flemcuev and liberation to Husseindjaliid, ;i prominent journalist. CROSSING DISASTER, LONDON, Aug. 31. Nino were killed and live seriously injured in Haworth collision, in which tho Neweastlc-Carlislc express struck t.x charabanc. BRITISH EMIGRATION. LONDON. Sept. 1. The “Morning l’ost” editorially deals with migration. It argues that the willingness of the British Government to take its share in migration schemes is not in question. The main responsibility. it says, rests with the Dominions. 'l'lie paper adds: “It is cetlain that matters cannot'.rest where they are without serious consequences.” AT GENEVA. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) GENEVA. September I. Sir Francis Bell was elected Chairman of the League Court Committee. The reorganisation committee adopted the non-permanent membership scheme, Spain abstaining. SPANISH FATALITES. MADRID, September 1. A landslide at Tortosa. crashed into a train and 17 were killed and 36 injured. Floods in Barcelona district demolished several villages and caused thirty-six deaths. i A RECORD FLY. PARIS, Sept. I. Lieut. Callcs and Capt. Wctzer made a non-stop flight from Paris to Bnndarabhas, a world’s record. A SHARP BATTLE. VANCOUVER, Sept. 1. Messages from Managua, state surgeons and Red Cross workers to-day l-u.shed to the vicuity of Cosegrinia on the West Coast, where sixty Government troops and forty rebels were killed during a. battle which lasted eight hours. The rebels fled, leaving five machine guns, five hundred rifles, a quantity of provisions and important documents revealing their plans.

ENGLAND’S SPORTS. LONDON, Sept. 1. Where are England’s sporting champions? They are here hut there is no effort to find them. Thus declared Sir Charles Hi glia ni, at a luncheon of business men at the Savoy. He went on to say that nothing is done by England to’stimulate effort. The Channel has Loon swum by two Americans and one German. One Englishman swam heroically, hut failed because he was not accompanied by properly equipped tugs, and not provided with expert advice and not financed. The two acknowledged tennis champions are French and American. England has the talent- and should he supreme in the tennis world. There is no English pugilistic champion, because there is nobody prepared to develop existing talent. America takes up any sporting talent ami develops it systematically. Does England know that that is why we are playing second fiddle to other nations? SUPPOSED SUICIDE. LONDON. September 1. Jean Baptiste, thirty, a violnist. who recently toured Australia and New Zealand, was found in a flat in Holland Park, having been dead over a month. She was in her nightdress and a towel was wrapped round her head. It is believed to be a ease of suicide. She had ample means.