NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1921, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

' BULL RING THRILLS. MADRID, June 7. Ouo of the most thrilling bull-fights j over seen in Spain lias taken place at J the Ciudad Real ring. Fvery bull proved to he a Carpentier or a Dempsey —with dire results for the bull-fighters, all of whom were knocked out and injured. It was a benefit performance, though the bull-fighlei s

found it difficult to realise the tact. The hulls opened the proceedings by tossing the fighter Veniroldia, who received. ii l-incih wound. The next hull tossed Gorlindo repeatedly, badly hurting him in the head. Then Salvador. Garcia was wounded in the hack, and j Colomina, Marinero Chico, and I'ormalitu were throw'll from their horses and badly bruised. The last hull jumped the harrier pn>I leering the spectators and gored a j student sitting in the front seat, As tiieie were no more bull-fighters able or ! willing to “curry on” it was driven luck to its pen and the afternoon s enterniiiiuent ended. 1 Id DROWNED IN TRAIN. NEW YORK, June 7 One of the lit) survivors I coin 200 passengers in a train which was overwhelmed in the Pueblo floods reached ( dorado Springs by walking and swimming. '-.Just as the train was on file bridge oyer the Arkansas River,” he said, “it slopped, together with a Missouri Pacific train on the next track. A few minutes later 1 heard the Hood waters lapping the tloor. A few of Us went up and down the train quieting the passengers, w ho were screaming and praying. One of the rear coaches in the ‘other train swept against us. “Then all till* wooden coaches of the Missouri train began to float and crash against ours. With a loud splintering of wood, two fell over oil their side in the water. In the coach with me was a grey-haired woman ho sat on a seat saying: -.Just trust God. Il will he all ; light!’ The last 1 saw of her was a s she was sitting smiling in her seat, the water rushing on her through the winI (lows. •"In another Pullman coach 1 tried to comfort a 17-year-old girl who was crying hysterically tor lu r lather in I Chicago. Two minutes later I saw ho: swept away as the water rushed through t):>- coach. “I saw a. middle-aged man float by s-hont in.;. ‘Guod-Uve. hoys! God help you!’ Scve’ai people wore crushed to ! death between the trains. | “.More than a dozen men and women went down in the torrent. They had tried to make a raft out of driftwood, hut it went to pieces under them. \Y< slaved on the top of the conch from It) cl night until .3 iiextmorning. j “By daylight the waters had receded and we were able to climb into the - mud. (July (>(» of us were left.” 1 NURSKS’ BOMBS. ’ BIOI? LIN, June 7. The news that the German Ambassadors in London. Paris, and Rome have protested against the Allied ultimatum sent‘to General Holer, the commander ol the so-called Self-Defence Forces in >' Upper Silesia, has hen received here 1 with astonishment. Nobody expected ‘ the Government to throw off the mask ’ and openly identify itself with die troops which have been smuggled into ‘ Upper Silesia from all parts of Germany. ■ While the Government professes to have closed the frontier, and has threatened to punish persons enlisting , in unofficial military organisatmns, the . despatch of troops to Upper rolesi:. goes t on unchecked. 1 have before me t ■ cirri il" r appealing for volunteers m i which i.t is pointed out that they run no risk of punishment as ihe G >vern r ment prohibition is intend’d oniv (• pacify foreign opinion. The correspondent of the Role Falme states tin- the I German frontier 'police look on while , men. arms and munitions are crossing the frontier. The unofficial War Office , at Breslau provides pay for 20,1)00 men. ? Twenty Red Cross sisters I rolll Fast I Prussia arrived a lew days ago with mattresses stuffed with grenades and ammunition.