MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1927, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) PROFESSOR OF HISTORY. LONDON, July 18. George Macaulay Trevelyan becomes Regus Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, replacing Professor John Bury. FLYING ACCIDENT. LONDON. July 18. Two persons were killed at Camberley when the Bristol tighter R.A.F. machine crashed in Haines, while effecting night operations with the Infantry Brigade from Aldershot. The troops suddenly saw the aeroplane enveloped in smoke, career, across the ground and finally overturn, hlnzinjj fiercely. The air mechanic tried to jump from the machine and was picked up dead. The pilot was burned to a cinder and the aeroplane a heap of charred ami D'isted wreckage,

U.Mir.l) STATES AND NICARAGUA

MANAGUA (Nicaragua), July 18. One United States murine was killed and another wounded in a battle fought by 39 marine sand 47 Nicaraguan constabulary against 400 men, armed with machine guns, belonging to the forces of the Farmer-Liberal General' Sandino, who attempted to capture the town of Ocotal, (53 miles southeast of Tegucigalpha. it is reported, that 100 rebels were killed and 200 wounded.

United States aeroplanes were sent from Managua! by Brigadier-General Upland, when he said the marines were outnumbered and the planes raked the rebels’ lines. De la Silva a Nicaraguan, commenting on the engagement between the United States marines and the Nicaraguans told the Pan-American Federation of Labour: ‘AVar is on if the marines do not leave the country. Even if we have to destroy the whole of the population of Nicaragua.”

U.S. CONSUL SHOT AT. WASHINGTON, July 18. Intruders attempted to assassinate the United States Consul, AY. C. Chapman, at Puerta, Alexico. He was shot, but the injury was not fatal.