BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

[by TEI.KCRAI’H —I’Kit I’ItKSS ASSOCIATION.]

TRAINS COLLISION. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, l'ih. 11. Casualties in the Hull collision were eight killed and thirty injured. The disaster was due to the Scarborough express crashing into Witbornsca local express tilled with scholars and business men on their way to Hull. I’hc eiash occurred half a mile from the station, opposite a work-house. Three carriages ot the local train were telescoped. The inmates of the workhouse with amazing quickness, cut a hole in a wall .through which the injured passengers were carried and given attention by the work-house doctors and mirA most tragic incident was the ease oi a lather and two sons named Fstl'oet, who arrived at Withernsoa station as the train was moving out for Hull. Ibe father said they could not catch it, hut the older son sprang and scrambled aboard the train. His was the first body extracted from 'the wreckage, just as the father and brother arrived by a later train. Though the first carriage was tilled with school hoys only one was killed. TO WELCOME THEM HOME. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON. February It. It is understood that it the present [dans mature, the York's home coming will be most memorable. Not since the early days of the Entente cordial has a representative fleet of French warships visited Britain, hut negotiations are now going on for France's best squadron to cruise the chief ports about .June. A happy suggestion is now being considered, to have a huge assemblage of French and British warships at Portsmouth on June 27th to give a majestic welcome to PEALS. Renown.

FREE TRAVEL WANTED. BERLIN. February It

Members of the Reichstag enjoying roe travel privileges are now dcilia 1 King free passages on all Berlin air

AN AMAZING STORY. LONDON. February I f

An amazing and hitherto unrealised story is told in long despatches from Bertry. an unmapped village north of •Saint Quentin, where Trooper Patrick Fowler of the Eleventh Hussars, was listed a.s missing. He remained hidden in the compartment of a wardrobe five feet bv thirty inches by eighteen inches from January 15th, 11)15, to October 10th. 1918, while the village was occupied by Germans. The heroine of this desperate adventure, who was daily and hourly in danger of death for the part she played is Madame Belmont Robert, widow. This noble self-sacri-fice on behalf of a British soldier might never have been recorded, had Madams not recently fallen on evil times. Fowler’s horse was shot beneath him in the battle of l.e ('bateau and he was cut off from the regiment. He hid in the woods, his face and hands bleeding until lie was discovered by Madame (Libert's son-in-law.