ENGLISH BANK HOLIDAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17168, 2 August 1927, Page 8

ENGLISH BANK HOLIDAY.

THlill EOSTIOH

UNFAVOURABLE CONDITIONS,

SERIES OF FATALITIES

MANY ROAD COLLISIONS

{Australian and N.Z. Cable Assb.)

LONDON, August 1. < Bank holiday dawn found thousands jof people sleeping outdoors at, the ! seaside. There was such a colossal Irush that every room was taken at the jlresorts. A dismal drizzle, however, j began early, awakening everybody, and I the rain continued practically cveryI where in England all day. Every oulj'door holiday sport was postponed. j There was a remarkable series of accidents, charabanc, motor car and motor cycle road collisions and drowning are repoiied as involving 12 deaths, and many cases of injury. Thros Persons Drowned. The worst accident was the drowning, of two brothers and a sister through, the capsizing of a sailing boat at StudlanJ Bay. I Daphne Pari in. aged, the sole survivor, was found in a semi-conscious condition clinging lo (he upturned boat which a squall had upset. The occupants were thrown into the water, but they climbed onto the craft. Angela aged 2J, a good swimmer,..tried to- reach the shore, a. mile and a-half away. She started in a rough sea, and was not seen again. An eleven-year-old boy Henry, slipped off the boat and his brother Lawrence, aged :i7, dived after him but became entangled in the ropes and both were drowned. Live Shell Explodes. Lulworth Cove, Dorset, was the scene of another tragedy. Two cadets were camping on the Downs and picked up a live shell dropped by a tank school at Lulworth. They threw it over the hedge into the roadway where it exploded killing a nurse who was wheeling a perambulator 200 yards away. The baby was unhurt.