BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

•'Australian «fc N.Z. Cable Association.) TRAIN CRASH. LONDON, Oct. 4. A double r hcaded express from Aberdeen to London was racing towards Don of Logie viaduct bridging a steep gorge, when the air reservoir fell from the second engine and derailed it and three carriages and. a dining car. The lending engine under wonderful control was brought to a standstill just as the derailed carriages were scraping the piles at the edge of the viaduct. There were no casualties.

• LONDON, Oct. 4. Three Germans, including left Norderney Island in a. hydroplane for New York. The first stop is at Azores. WEBSTER. HONOURED. LONDON, Oct. 4. Sir Samuel Hoare proposing the toast of Webster and the Schneider Cup team at the Savoy luncheon, emphasised the victory’s significance, ns recently wb had not been in a habit , of winning international events. Webster's speed crushingly answered critics whq refused to believe that engines or human beings were capable of the strain. The modern English man is well trained in body and mind, hard ns nails band steady as a rock. He achieves feats that formerly were not m imagined possible. Sir S. Tloare an- > nounced that Hi.s Majesty approved of the addition of a bar to Webster's Air Force Cross. Scarlett attributed the victory to the skilful negotiation of hairpin bends in which the Britishers simply shot ahead. Webster in responding said: “I merely happened to be pilot of the fastest machine.”

BOY LIVES ON BERRIES. LONDON, Sept. 23. Fearing a ragging when ho returned to the boarding school, Gerald Thompson, aged thirteen, who recently returned from Australia, disappeared from his uncle’s bungalow at Ruckinge, Kent, leaving a note that he had gone to find work. He was not seen for five days, despite many searchers, his mother scouring the district and coo-eeing. Eventually a sucking pig escaped from the uncle’s farm a.nd ran to a neighbouring copse. It was followed by n five-year-old child, who returned saying that he had not caught the pig, but had found Gerald. The uncle wont out and shouted that Gerald would be forgiven if he returned.

Gerald came in in tho evening, weak, wet and dirty. Ho says that he slept behind a break-wind composed ol old sacking and boughs and ate only nuts and blackberries. WAR MEDALS. LONDON, Oct. 4. The War Office announces 51,513 war medals were issued in the past twelve months, making 13,466,821 distributed since 1920. Many are still unissued owing to the addressees being unknown. SIR J. PARR. LONDON, Oct. 4. Sir James Parr has returned from Belfast, where he was the week-end guest of the Duke and Duchess of Abercorn. He visited Londonderry, where he was welcomed by the Mayor. I-Ie also visited Limavady, tho birthplace of the late Mr Massey where he nddressed the children of the school attended by Mr Massey, before migrating to New Zealand.

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. LONDON, Oct. 4. . Speaking at the Agricultural Conference. Mr Julius said Australia had embarked on an ambitious programme of research, ninety per cent of which would bo devoted to primary production. Agricultural research in Australia was a tremendous field, wherein there were few workers at present. This was probably due to the lack oi reward for scientific work in former years.