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LONDON, May 6. Abrahams, the Olympic winner, met. with a- serious accident while long jumping at the London Athletic Club. After a jump of 22ft, he missed his take-off, and turned over in the air, and fell on his side. lie was removed in great pain, .1 aving apparently injured his biceps and his right thigh. Admiral De Robuck .succeeds Lord Berne as President of the Marvlbono Club.
NEW YORK, May 6. Coincident with the departure of the ships to deal with the rum runners’ fleet, 19 United States coastguardsmen were arrested on a charge of being spies for the rum runners. PARIS, May 5... The transporters’ dispute lias been settled and strikers resume to-morrow. OTAWA, May 6. R.ev. Clayton, the founder of the Toil) H, and Padre Leonard, are sailing bv the Niagara, spending a fortnight in New Zealand, after which they go to Australia.
RIGA, May 6. The English Church at Petrograd was converted into a Communist sports dub. Portraits of Lenin and his colleagues replace the beautiful stained glass windows. Zinovieff, scorning protests against confiscation, said, “Itis not the first time we* have spat on England.”
MADRID, May 6. Obituary: Alfred Lester, th e comedian. from pneumonia, while on a health tour.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 8 May 1925, Page 3
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