MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1927, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. MOTOR COLLISION. WELLINGTON. July 8. A collision between a motor ear. driven ly Win, Curler, of Grass Street anil a car driven by Spencer E. W. Furrell, of Lower Halt, occurred at the intersection of Alolesworth and Liiinbton Quay nl 2.30 this morning. Fun-ell's machine was turned over on its side. The injured were:

Miss R. Murphy. Sydney Street West cuts about the head and arms ; condition not serious.

Airs Hugh Anderson. Alolesworth Street, broken collarbone; sent home. Max Lommer, single, of Lower Hutt. injuries to head, admitted to hospital; condition not serious.

S. W. Furrell received cuts on his face and head and after being doctored was able to return home

Mr ami Mrs X. Taylor. Petoue. and W. Henderson, carter, minor cuts and bruises.

Several others escaped without in jury. Both cars wore badly damaged

AUCKLAND. .July 8

Kathleen Parkes, 17. is in hospital with a deep scalp wound and slight fracture of the skull, through being struck bv a motor car.

LOSS OF SECRET CODE. BERLIN. Juno 30.

Germany is stiil seeking the man on whom to fix the blame for the loss of the war.

Captain Haheniih. of the cruiser Magdeburg, is now on trial at Goettingen, on a charge n! having let tht Allies obtain a copy of the secret German signal-book a he beginning of the war as a result of his careless-

1t is charged that this dereliction of duty enabled the Allies to deleat tht Gormans. The Magdeburg was stranded on the Russian coast, on August 26. 191-1. The captain says he burned the code, but the engineer alleges that the captain threw it into the sea. The German General Staff supports the engineer's version, declaring: “We have reliable information front Leningrad showing that the documents and code-books were thrown overboard during the stranding ol the Magdeburg, and that they weredished up by the Russians, who banded them to the Allies. ’