AFTER ACCIDENT
SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN
DEPARTURE FOR GENEVA
(United Press Association.^-Copyright.) LONDON, sth June. The accident to Sir Austen Chamberlain, iv which the Foreign Secretary received injuries to the head, was caused through his chauffeur swerving to avoid a woman in the roadway. Sir Austen had been entertaining a distinguished company in brilliant uniforms, glittering with decorations, at the first official dinner given by tha Foreign Office iv honour of the King's Birthday since 1914.
Sir Austen has departed for Paris, en routo for Geneva. ' His head was bandaged, and a piece of sticking-plas-ter was over his right eye, but the monocle is still in its place.
It is said that no ill-effects are evident, beyond a shaking.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 130, 6 June 1927, Page 9
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118AFTER ACCIDENT Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 130, 6 June 1927, Page 9
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