ENGLAND’S BANK HOLIDAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 112, 2 August 1927, Page 1

ENGLAND’S BANK HOLIDAY

MANY ACCIDENTS A BOATING TRAGEDY By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Reed. 11.13 a.m. LONDON, Monday. August 1 was a bank holiday and dawn found thousands sleeping outdoors at the seaside. There was such a colossal rush that every room was taken at the sea resorts. A dismal drizzle, however, began early, awakening everybody. The rain continued practically over all England all day. Every outdoor holiday sport was postponed. There was a remarkable series of accidents, with charabancs, motorcars and motor-cycles in road collisions, and several drownings, the whole involving twelve deaths and many eases of injury. The worst accident was the drowning of two brothers and their sister, through the capsizing of a sailing boat at Studlag Bay. Daphne Martin, fifteen, the sole survivor, was found semiconscious, clinging to the upturned boat, which a squall had upset. The occupants climbed on to the craft. Angela, 21 years old and a good swimmer, tried to reach the shore, a mile and a-hal£ away. She started in a rough sea and was not seen again. Eleven-year-old Henry slipped off the boat. His brother Lawrence, aged 17, dived after him, but became entangled in the ropes and both were drowned. Lulworth Cove, Dorset, was the scene of another tragedy. Two cadets camping on the downs picked up a live shell dropped by a tank school at Lulworth and threw it over a hedge into a roadway. It exploded, killing a nurse who was wheeling a perambulator 20 Oyards away. The baby was not hurt.—A. and N.Z.