NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1927, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL

•SUFFOCATED BY BANANAS. PARIS, July 13

Tv. u men and a boy were suffocated by bananas-to-day at the Paris Central Alai Lets and firemen wearing gasmasks had to be called in to recover their bodies. Tin's was one of lire weird effects ol the storm which swept Paris last night, putting three telephone exchanges out of commission and depriving 12,000 subscribers of the use of their telephones. The water flooded the cellars of the market, where two Spaniards, brothers, named Domingo, had stacked 100,000 bananas. The flood set up rapid fermentation of the stock, and when the younger brother, Enrico Domingo, went down In rlie icilar this morning he fell asphyxiated a few yards from the bottom of the stairs. llis brother Juan descended ill search of him ami also succumbed to the gas generated by flic fermenting bananas. When the two failed to reappear their office-boy went down and also was overcome. LEGION FOR A ROYAL AJAR INK HAVRE. July 13. At the close- of the William the Conqueror centenary celebrations the Cross of the Legion of Honour was bestowed upon Sergeant- 14. <4. Payne, of tho Royal .Marine-, who, for gallantry at 7'eehrugge. had it conferred on him, hut had not received the Cross. Ho is now nil attendant on the Mayor of Hastings, rue of the British visitors, and at tho British cemetery tlio Cross was pinned on his breast by AE lAloviticone, representing a group of Norman friends.