BROADCASTING SEDITION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 79, 5 April 1926, Page 7

BROADCASTING SEDITION.

QUAINT HOAXES IN SPAIN

AN ELUSIVE MOTORIST

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MADRID, April 4.

Wireless programmes in Spain have, for the past fortnight, been rudely and mysteriously interrupted by the brayinga of donkeys, seditious speeches, ridicule of General Primo do Rivera, the Dictator, and other absurdities launched Egainst the Government authorities, who confess that they are baffled in their attempts to find the interrupter, -who is Relieved to have a powerful broadcasting set on his motor car.

The interrupter is aware that the authorities are hunting for him and has broadcasted a message offering a wager of £1500 to anyone who can catch him. ;(A. and N.Z.)

A BALCONY COLLAPSES.

MANY KILLED AND HURT.

MEXICAN CINEMA TRAGEDY,

MEXICO CITY, April 4.

An entire section of the balcony in a cinema theatre collapsed and fell on the spectators below.

Five persons were killed and 92 men, ■women and children were injured. Many are believed to have been fatally hurt. — ■(Reuter.)

RULE OF THE REDS.

ZINOVIEFF SLIGHTED.

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RIGA, April 4,

Zinovieff has been deprived of the Presidency of the Leningrad Soviet, thus Josing all his official authority.— (Reuter.)

FRENCH 'PLANE CAPTURED.

GERMANS RELEASE CREW.

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PARIS, April 4.

A Strasbourg message states that the German authorities seized a French military aeroplane which., when flying over the Rhine, was forced to land at Zaeckingen, in Baden, but the occupants, •n officer and a sergeant, were allowed to return to France.— (A. and N.Z.)

I POLITICS IN GREECE.

GENERAL ELECTION PENDING.

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ATHENS, April 4.

As the Government rejected their Tequest for a week's postponement of the presidential election so that voting would occur throughout Greece the same day, the .United parties decided not to participate in the election and withdraw their candidature.

It was previously announced that on the ground that the arrangements for the election were not ready in twentythree out of thirty-three districts it had been decided to hold the election to-day for ten districts and for the remainder a week later.— (A. and N.Z.)

BOYCOTT OF FOREIGNERS.

HOSPITALS CLOSED AT CHINA.

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PEKING, April 4.

Following the recent closing of the Canton Hospital, which has been operated for 90 years by the American Presbyterian Mission, a similar Labour tyranny has now compelled the closing of the Stout Memorial Hospital at Wu Chow, which is also American. News las been received that the doctors have embarked upon a United States gunboat. (A. and N.Z.)

WILKINS EXPEDITION.

LEADER AT POINT BARROW.

VANCOUVER, April 4.

A message from Fairbanks, Alaska, states that a wireless communication received there announced that Captain O. H. Wilkins had arrived safely at Point Barrow in the aeroplane Alaskan. ; (A. and N.Z.)

A GOOD CAP,

AND A BORN DRIVER.

PARIS, April 4. Woolf Barnato, an amateur, driving a British car, broke all world records from 50 to 2000 kilometres at the Monthlery track. He averaged 101 kilometres per iour for 16£ hours.—(A. and NJZ.)