RUSSIA AND LEAGUE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 190, 13 August 1934, Page 7

RUSSIA AND LEAGUE.

Application Expected to be Made Next Month. PERMANENT COUNCIL SEAT? (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 12. Tho "Sunday Observer" says that when Russia applies for membership of the League of Nations in September, she will .doubtless be admitted and offered a permanent seat in the Council.

EXPRESS DERAILED.

CROSSING SMASH.

BELIEVED SUICIDE.

Eight Killed in Railway Smash In France. OVER 30 INJURED. (Received 9.30 a.m.) AVIGNON, August 12. Ten coaches of the Geneva-Venti-miglia night express were derailed at 4 a.m. approaching Avignon station. Eight people were killed and 32 injured. Some of the coaches crashed against a goods train and hurled it aside, blocking four main lines. The train was crowded with holidaymakers.

TRAINS COLLIDE. FATAL ACCIDENT IN PRUSSIA. (Received 10 a.m.) BERLIN, August 12. Two trains collided at the Halle station in Prussia. Two people were killed, 17 seriously injured and 143 slightly injured. OUTCOME OF DROUGHT. Aid to Impoverished Farmers In America. MAJOR CRISIS EXISTS. WASHINGTON, August 12. General rains in the western sections of the United States in the past 24 hours relieved the aeute heat and perhaps aided some of the crops, but a major crisis still exists. Agricultural Department officials have admitted that while the Government is still greatly concerned in extending aid to impoverished farmers the problem of the rising costs of food has become allimportant. The Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Henry A. Wallace, has issued a statement frankly telling the public that higher prices can be expected in the autumn and winter, and that it may be necessary for the Government to institute* drastic regulations to prevent profiteering. Mr. Wallace also admitted that the crop curtailment programme of the Government must be materially modified to prevent a' shortage of food. The Weather Bureau yesterday issued charts showing that the current year is the hottest and driest by far for the 70 years during which the bureau has operated.

SEVEN PASSENGERS KILLED. (Received 11.30 a.m.) VANCOUVER, August 12. William Dotson, a one-handed bus driver, and seven passengers in his vehicle, were killed when a train ran it down outside Memphis, Tennessee.

PICTURE DIRECTOR'S DEATH. (Received 1.30 p.m.) LOS ANGELES, August 12. George William Hill, a well-known motion picture director, was found dead from a pistol wound and a weapon was nearby. The police declare that he committed suicide owing to ill-health following a car accident.