DISASTERS IN SPAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 208, 2 September 1926, Page 9

DISASTERS IN SPAIN.

FLOODS. jTTXY-XHREE DEATHS. & Cable.-Fress Association-Copyright.) (RecelTed'2.3o p.m.) MADRID, September 1. A landslide at Tortose crashed into a train Sag 17 passengers and injuring a it, the Barcelona district deTHE LEAGuToM^ATIONS. WON-PEBMA MEMBERS. (Received 2.30 p.m.) GENEVA, September 1. «ir Francis Bell has been elected chairman the The Hague Court Committee. The Reorganisation Committee has Aor,teA a non-permanent membership leme Spain rtandinff out.-(A. and N.Z.) KILLING OF ABORIGINALS. ANOTHER VERSION. (Received 2.30 p.m.) PERTH, Septembpcr 2. Another version of the alleged masEacre of aborigines which was reported yesterday, states that a constable and another white man, accompanied by a number of black trackers, were searching for a native who .was wanted on the charge of murder of a white station owner, Frederick William Hay, of Wyndham. The black trackers, preceding the white men, came upon a native camp. The natives ehowed fight and attacked the trackers with spears and other weapons. The trackers replied with revolvers and shot dead seven natives before they secured the alleged murderer and rejoined their white officers. One tracker was wounded.— (A. and ~S.Z.) VIOLINIST'S SAD END. SUPPOSED SUICIDE. (Received 2.30 p.m.) ! LONDON, September 1. Jean Baptisti, aged 30 years, a violinist who recently toured Australia and ; y«w Zealand, was found in a flat in HoDißd Park, having been dead over a month. She was clad in a nightdress with a towel wrapped round her head. It is believed to be a case of suicide. Sμ was possessed of ample means.— (A. aidN-Z.) ARAB ARRESTED. ;££«».MURDER OF ELLIOT. (Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 1. I An Arab, who is believed to be the ; nraiderer of Mr. A. B. Elliot, Mr. Alan Cobhun's mechanic, who was shot on the flight from Bagdad to Basra, has been wrested.—(A. and N.Z.) LORD SOMERS IGMUREi*. another Accraaxrc, • : ' (Received 2 p.m.) •', MELBOURNE, September. 2. Lord Somers, Governor of Victoria, injured his knee by a fall, and has undergone an operation. A second operation nay be also necessary, though the injury is not serious.— (A. and X.Z.) ; SHOT HER LOVER. THE FASHION SPREADS. \ ".' TOKYO, August 2G. Mils Aiko Fukaya, 17-year-old mies of New Japan, the first young lady of ■ this old land to turn a gun on a lover who'has proved disappointing, is run•.ninjj true to the Hollywood form she ; «t out to imitate. She has just signed ..a contract with a prominent movie pro- . ducer, and proposes to realise on all ; the publicity that came her way when she pulled the trigger. Miss Aiko, petite, bobbed-haired and fopperish in the modern way, disdain- . ing kimono in favour of knee-length .skirts and 6corning to be a clinging Tine, such as most of her Japanese sisters are taught to be, likewise turned . "*B*'Mt the youths of her own land and uiltivated those from Western countries. ~, She made life in Japan less lonesome for the Embassy secretaries, and a number 0* the young business men of the Kobe ."^iTokyo younger set, her affections finWj , centreing on a dashing Italian, who - occupied a cottage in the grounds of the O.lWan Embassy. ■ -Calling upon him one evening recently 8 »e. found him cold, especially when reminded that he had promised to preher with a diamond ring he was »e»ring. Wearied of importuning him °r ac rag, ehe suggested the good old s*»e of "Shut your eves and open your ■Wjb," and the youth fell for it. .With eyes tightly shut and' mouth "!v*v a gape he waited for the next ST,*.. He & ot 5t in the shape of a ■ ti? c bullet at a P° int " ue south of ; i»-* 0 P lexus - Opening his eyes, but /T?™? his mouth as it was, he dashed trL*- doCtor- Miss Aiko wa3 arrested, a glare of publicity, and told to Sh y and ehoot no mo - e *- ~ ~W lll start on her first picture .•""mediately. • AFFAIRS IN SPAIN. V'j'. LONDON, August 31. * S sub J ect to a strict censorship, . +W V* Eternal situation is obscure to ; world. Bhi Minister, General Primo de .'■■lS|* t ' k a message to the Central r J!£ieency, d ate( } August 29, says the of the artillery corps which de*o Ws resignation is being settled "?.* breach of discipline. The Gov!n t was acting with firmness, tie other hand the revolutionary lent in Spain appears to be taken % at Geneva, where the Spanieh ites are reported to have asserted ' s ?Sifita ' n ' s * ore 'B n policy will in no ■'.' £ be changed should de Rivera fall.—