BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[BY TELEGRAPH- -PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

bullfighting. LONDON, May 30. “The Times’s” Madrid correspondent states: Tlieir Majesties attended ft hull fight to raise money for the new University in the city. Nine bulls were killed. The picadors rode up on unprotected horses, several of which were killed by the bulls’ horns. The public did not protest, but seemed completely to forget their previous interest in the horse-protecting armour. The last half of the fight was broadcast, and it sliould have enabled English listencrs-in who understand a little Spanish to form a good idea of a bullfight’s effect on the public. There was very little applause, but there were fourteen thousand spectators, and the hum and buzz were incessant. An announcer described every phase, once warning the listeners-in that the fight was a poor one, and that they might soon bear the multitude snore. The bulls were considered not to be fierce enough, so three pairs of darts, to which fireworks were attached, were plunged into their necks in order to torment them in aggressiveness. The noise was plainly audible liy wireless.

HYDE PARK It TOT. LONDON. May 29. Mounted police were called upon to disperse a riotous crowd of 6000 at Hyde Park. Disturbances began there when an anti-Socialist speaker concluded bis remarks. A crowd concentrated on a Socialist platform, resulting in a series of fights. The Hyde Park police were unable to restore order. When the mounted men came they formed a line between the Socialists and anti-Socialists

FIRE DISASTER. WARSAW, May 29. During military manoeuvres a machine gun company were billeted at a farmhouse near Poznan and a fire broke out in the house. As a result eight were dead, 14 are dying, and 50 are seriously injured. SUICIDE EPIDEMIC. LONDON, May SO. The “Daild News’s” Nice correspondent reports there has been an epidemic of suicides at tlie Riviera. They mostly are ascribed to gambling losses, which has perturbed the authorities. Five suicides have been reported in two days, including those of two women. RESTRICTIONS IN GREECE. ATHENS, May SO. Tlie authorities have adopted stern measures against the Communists, who recently have provoked Labour troubles. Their secretary has been arrested, and 20 Communists have been isolated on islands. Secret archives have heon seized which have revealed that Communists fomented the recent trouble among the tobacco workers, whom they assisted with funds.