AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) ' PERILS OF THE ROAD. NEAV YORK, Doe. 21. The Travellers’ Insurance Coy predicts that there will he 23,000 deaths and 800.000 injuries next year, due to automobile accidents. The estimate, which is based on the records of the last two years, does not allow for the customary yearly increase. Tito 1925 and 192(3 records show that someone was either killed or injured every fourteen seconds, and there was one death for each thousand ears. At this.rate 400,000 will ho killed in automobile accidents in the coming twenty years. NO RESPONSE FROM ENTOMBED. NEW YORK, Dec. 21. Provincetown messages report that while the officials are convinced that the men of the S! are dead, divers descended this afternoon, when the sea was sufficiently calm, but were unable at first to find the vessel, the buoy marking the spot having become loosened. The divers ultimately reached the ship, attached a line, and rapped in vain on the torpedo compartment. The divers proposed to continue work all night, and cut a hole in the submarine’s side to fill the torpedo compartment with compressed air, in an attempt to make tlie ship more quovant. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. Complaints are coming from practically' every section in the United States, charging the Navy with lailnre to utilise modern inventions to protect tlie lives of officers and men in submarines. These complaints resulted in the introduction of a. resolution in the House of Representatives for an independent investigation of the disaster, irrespective of the Navy inquiiy, with a view to legislation for the introductiorn of safety appliances.NO SIGN OF LIFE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) VANCOUVER, Dee. 22. A Provincetown message states after air was pumped into a compartment of the sunken submarine for five hours there were no indications of life in the torpedo room of the six men.