RUGBY IN FRANCE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19949, 9 June 1930, Page 17

RUGBY IN FRANCE.

MAN RfiCSIVBS SHOC*. CfStSS ASSOCXAtIO* tUAalug.) TAIJEANQA, June 7. JVederiek Vincent, & maVHWi Atnv, employed by the Taut'anga Pfcfcer Board, was overhauling a transformer yesterday on the Te Matai Road atTe Puke, when he received a shock and fell to the ground, a distance of seventeen feet. Me is suffering from severe shock, burned shoulder and feet and head, and minor injuries in falling. Ho was removed to the Taurahga Hospital, where his Condition is setiotts. BUB AND CAR COLLIDE, TWO PEOPLE INJURED. (Muesa ASBOCIXTIO* mMMM*.) DCNEDIN, Jti&e 8. Mr Leslie Hunt, aged 84, single, residing at Pukeuri, was admitted to the hospital on Saturday eveniftg with a fractured thigh and a lacerated neck, received when a bus .on which he was travelling, and which was returning to Palmerston from the football match at Dunback, was struck near Dunback by a car owned and driven by Mr McGregor. of Palmerston. Miss Mary Parkhill, a passenger in the car, was also admitted to hospital with head injuries and a fractured rib.

. .— — AN INTERNATIONAL MATCH. PANDEMONIUM IN PARIS. tntoM q\jr own coztßia?o:a>isio LONDON, April 22. The "Daily Express" prints a striking account of the scenes in Paris relating to the Eugby match Wales v. France, played at the Colombes Stadium. The paper says:— .This is the story of 100,000 people who went to see a' Rugby match and to see Wales defeat Prance by e|6ven points to nothing. Some of them wore leeks, and they wero Welsh; some of them vote berets, and they were French; the others might have been either, for tlioy all shouted, swore, whistled, yelled, and roared with one accord. This morning there were no more taxi-cabs left in Paris —they had all been engaged ,by tho 5000 Welshmen who.invaded Paris. A Mass of Looks. The roads to Colombes stadiupi were a solid mass of leeks,- beneath which were buried, far below, a chanting mass of humanity being carried towards jthe playing-field. Omnibuses, motor-coaches, bicycles, and feet were used to go there, and they were also used to come back, for the stands at Colombes only hold 50,000 people, and at two o'clock the ticket offices wjßre flbljt. r The other half *<mnd and 1 round grousing hopelessly at their misfortune. Thousands- were turned and scores spent their afternoon in the police station trying to explain why they had presented forged tickets. Many of these unfortunately had travelled hundreds of miles only to make the acquaintance of the Paris constabulary. Others thought that they had been mistaken for players as the mounted Republican Guard swept for- ; ward np and dawn the surrounding roads, doing their best to prevent a, mass rush on the gates. . Pandemonium. ' There' was pandemonium for hoars before the start. The Welsh gnawed their leeks and sang. The French chewed bananas and their arms. Some hopeful souls were invading the playing pitch and the authorities began to tear their fckir. One happy man, who froin .hi*. Toic6 hailed from the land Of David, vastly entertained vthe. crowd. He marehed solitary and unaided, a red beret on his head, three balloons tied to hia arms, three squeakers in his mouth, a rubber pig under his coat, and three leeks tied to. his neck. , HerewasaWelahmanbattered but unbowed! , When the game beg£» we really started np. Such whistling, booing, shouting, hooting, crowing, has never been heard before. Every time a man went down there were shouts of applause Every time the g&ne was held a ihan hurt there were howls of rage, and when a free fight started a few yards away from the ball there was aa ecstasy of delirious delight. Together the great family had a jolly afternoon, and rounded off a perfect fight by throwing the many-coloured cushions on which they had been seated all pver the ground.