NEWS IN BRIEF.

Wairarapa Age, 15 March 1927, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The British Minister of Transport has convened a Street Accidents Commission. He says that fatalities in London last year totalled 1020, for the first time exceeding a thousand. Injured people numbered 47,213. The Paris correspondent .of the London “Times” says that two violent earthquake shocks have occurred in the Eastern Pyrenees. Furniture was shifted, church bells sounded, and clocks stopped. As the result of apprehension of an increase in Communist propaganda the Constantinople police are rounding up all Russians, following upon the arrest of Akounoff.

A Busso-Turkish commercial agreement has been signed. A Berlin message reports that a day of mourning for those who fell in tho war was celebrated on Sunday throughout Germany. Flags were half-masted. President Hindenburg took the Reiehwehr’s salute outside the Reichstag, in which was held an official mourning service, attended by members of the Cabinet, and the chiefs of the Navy and Army. A Paris message reports that at a suburban Soccer match a goalkeeper named Lebinois, falling on the ball, Was fatally kicked in the neck by a centre-forward, who broke his leg.

.British cricket ball manufacturers are busy making smaller balls. There are considerable stocks of the 9in. ball, the present minimum, which becomes the maximum under the new rule. Supplies of the now minimum 8 13-16 in ball much favoured by the Australians, have to be made.