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Kaikoura Star, Volume XLV, Issue 72, 8 September 1925, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE QUEENSLAND STRIKE. BRISBANE, September The railway strike has officially been declared off by the Strike Council. Work will be resumed at midnight, the Townsville and Mackay strikers baling decided to accept the Government’s terms. It is stated that the Government threatened to resign if the railwaymen refused to return to work. LEAP FROM ENGINE. LONDON, September 3. The driver of the Mam-hestcr-Shef-field express, when rounding a bend at Hope, saw a stationary ballast train ahead. He frantically endeavoured to pull up, but unavailingly. He and the fireman leapt from the engine a :moment before the crash. Both died of injuries. Twelve passengers were injured, but not seriously. DIRIGIBLE CRASHES. NEAV YORK, September 3. Thirteen officers and men were killed v.hen the Navy dirigible Shenandoah crashed in a windstorm ten miles north of Belle Valley, Ohio, early on Thursday'. One portion dropped to the ground the other drifted twlvo miles before descending. There were 42 persons on board the dirigible.