BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[BY TELEGRAPH- -PER TRESS ASSOCIATION.)

CEREMONIA.L RABAT)E. LONDON, June 4. Messages from Berlin reports that a unique scene was witnessed at A) ei»baden, when thousands of Germans gathered in the streets to witness the ceremonial parade ol the British Army on the Rhine on. the occasion of the King’s Birthday. People cheered wildlv and hats were lifted when the military bands played the National Anthem. SIR. A. CHAMBER-LAIN INJURED. LONDON, June 4. Sir Austen Chamberlain met with an accident. .He was in court dress, and it was after he had attended a dinner at the Foreign Office- He was being motored home, accompanied by a detective sh’ortly before midnight, when his car collided with an obelisk in Parliament Square. Sir Austen was thrown forward, his forehead being injured, and lie was taken in a taxi-cab to the Westminster Hospital, but be left afterwards with his head swathed in bandages, and proceeded home. Though apparently shaken, lie said that it was only a scalp wound, and he intends to leave London to-day for a holiday as arranged.

The accident was caused through the chauffeur swerving to avoid a woman in the roadway.

Sir Austen is going to Geneva. He had been entertaining a distinguished company, in brilliant uniforms and glittering with decorations, at the first official dinner given by the Foreign Office in honour of the King’s birthday since 1914.

OLD WAR STORES EXPLODE. WARSAW, June t 5

At least ten were killed by the big powder explosion which occurred at Cracow. It was due to the decomposition of Austrian explosives that liad been stored for ten years. More than two hundred persons were seriously injured, and there is hall a million sterling damage.

The disaster occurred during the service time, and it shattered every window in Cracow churches, causing a. panic, in which a numlver were injured. There was a similar panic at the hospitals. many- of the sick running out in the belief that it was an earthquake. The officer in charge of the magazine was blinded.

Fort Rutkowic was nearly practically demolished.

At first the explosion was believed to have been due to foul play, and several arrests were made, but this idea has now been abandoned. Fortunately, only forty thousand kilogrammes of powder, out of 123 thousand kilogrammes exploded.

ROUMANIAN POLITICS. RUCHAREST, June 5. While the Roumanian Cabinet was meeting a Court official entered and told General Averescu (Premier) that the King had entrusted Prince Stribey with the formation of a Cabinet, and that he demanded General Avereseu’s immediate retirement.

Prince Stribey’s portfolios are those of Foreign Affairs, Finance and tlio Interior. He supports 31. Brattiano, and opposes the return of Prince Carol tolthe throne. LAWYER- V. MAGISTRATE. PARIS, June 5. Should a magistrate’s lawyer-wife appear before him as counsel. Such a situation created an unseemly brawl in the Courts here a few days ago. The counsel opposing the magistrate’s wife suggested that such a relationship was out of place and unfair to the litigants. The magistrate and counsel then exchanged heated insults, and then blows, and they had to be separated. The sequel came yesterday. It was a fierce six-round sword duel, which was fought in deadly earnest in the other lawyer’s garden. One of the duellists was twice wounded in the arm. Doctors then stopi>ed the duel, but the opponents were not reconciled.