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NAVAL BASES IN MEDITERRANEAN

ITALIAN OFFICER'S

ANALYSIS

VALUE OF GREECE AS

AN ALLY

By HECTOR C. BYWATER

London, July 1. Outspoken comments on the pre- sent-day strategical situation in the Mediterranean are made by Itollon navel officer, Signor Flora- vanzo, in a newly published book on the world's naval bases.

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In his view France occuples a com- manding position in the western basin of the Mediterranean,

over

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Britain stands sentry western and eastern gateways- Gibraltar and Suez-Halfa-but her position in the central Mediterranean Is jeopardised by the insecurity of

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He considers Italy to be the strongest factor in the central busin, besides being

powerful than France or Britain in the eastern sec- tor. Moreover, thanks, to her Sar- dinian bases, she could exert strong pressure in the western area. adds: "T! Italy possessed supremacy would be mistress of the entire Mediterranean."

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Spain the author writes: "From the naval and strategic point of view this country occupies a key position. An alliance with Spain which gave her allies the use of Spanish baxes would be of supreme Importance any one of the three Powers."

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The picturesque dealer liquorice-woter formerly a feature of Brussels Streets is appearing again during heat-wave days selling his cold drinks from the reservoir he entries on his back.

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Toronto.

THE most oustanding contri.

bution to the history of silicosis research" is the deserlp- tion given by the Academy of Medicine to the preliminary re- port on the discovery of the use of metallic aluminium for pre- [vention of the disease.

ing under the direction of Sir F lanting.

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JULY 16, 1937.

FOUR DEAD, 30 HURT

IN EXPRESS SMASH

Soldiers Killed When Gun Overturns

TWO men were killed, two

others

seriously injured

when a Royal Artillery tractor] drawing a 10-ton anti-aircraft gun overturned and caught fire at Holford, Somerset, last month.

The men kllied were:

Smith, 3rd Battery 6th A.A. Brigade, R.A.

Southern Train Hits Siding

2 COACHES TELESCOPED

AT 50 M.P.H.

London, July 1.

At least four people-three women and one man-

Lance-Bomb. James Mackenzie were killed and 30 injured when a Southern Railway express from Ashford, Kent, to Victoria, ran into a Robert McConnel, dead-end siding at Swanley Junction at 11.20 last night.,

The first two coaches of the train, which was

Lance-Bomb. |12||; A. A. Brigade, R.A.

The lorry was going from Black- down Camp, Aldershot, to the anti-

aircraft camp at Watchet. It contain-travelling at 50 m.p.h. were telescoped and the lines were ed eight soldiers.

Apparently it slowed round and strewn with wreckage.

turned over broadside. Lance-Bomb. Mackenzie,

the

driver, could not be extricated until

the fire had been extinguished.

Hedges on the rond were set alight and the tarred road surface melted.

CROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN

NIGHT FLIGHT OVER LONDON WITH LORD SEMPILL

London, June 21.

The train carried 300 passengers, many of whom were hikers or members of picnic and holidaymaking parties.

Swanley police sent out an urgent call for assistance, Ambulances were despatched from Dartford, five miles away, and Farningham, two miles away, Fire engines were summoned and breakdown gangs sent from London.

Early this morning it was stated that eight of the Prince Chichibu, Crown Prince | Since 1832 experts have been work-

of Japan, flew over London on injured had been taken to the County Hospital, Dartford, Monday night and dipped his all with serious injuries. 'plane in salute over Buckingham Palace, where he lunched with the King yesterday.

Turning to Greece he finds that her bases at Salomis and Salonika, together with the numerous anchor ages and hiding places among the Aegean Islands, constitute a strategie network of great value for all I opera- tions in the eastern Mediterranean.

"An, Halo-Grecian alliance would be advantageous te Italy in the defensive sense. On the other hand, any grouping of Powers wh

which gove Britain and France the

A full repart will be published in use of the Grecian baser would mean the com-Medical Journal,

the July issue of the Canadian plete strangulation of Italy."

but doctors are ulready highly optimistic. Signor Fioravanzo considers ile Indian Ocean to be "a purely British sex,

dominated by Simonstown, South Africa, Aden, Karachi, Singa- pore and the Australian boses,

He holds the Italian bases of Massawa and Assub to be relatively unimportant, us they are situated in the Red Sea and not directly in the Indian Ocean.

He concludes his study as follows: "As the Mediterranean is the only sco which unlies three continents, it is the theatre of countless conflicting interests. As such it may become the setting for the last act of a final .suttlement."

respirators the new method promises Instead of the wearing of masks and

prevention by pathological means.

The tnixing of metallic aluminium dust with silica dust in mines will prevent, it is hoped, the dread effect of silica dust on the lungs of miners, No tests have yet been made on human beings, but experiments have been made with rabbits.

Chemical experiments have shown that the presence of metallic alumi- nium in dust reduces the solubility of sllien and halts the development of Abrosis in the lungs of unimals in the Arst stages of silicosts.

The Prince was taken up by Lord Sempli, an old friend, accompanied by Mr. J. Wentworth Day, the writer, and for 40 minutes the Prince piloted the 'plane himself,

It was the first time the Prince had :

Uninjured passengers were brought to London by special train and by 'buses from the Swanley garage. Drivers and conductors were roused from their beds to drive them.

Up to an early hour this morning it had been flown by night, and he thoroughly impossible to identify the bodies of the victims. enjoyed the experience.

MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN CRUSHED

The flight took place from lan- worth Aerodrome in 'plane of the type used by Lord Scimp in his

Swanley, Three persons were standing on attempted Bight to Australia in 1936. With a crash which awakened re-platform at time of accident-Mr. D. Lord Sempill was responsible for the sidents over a wide area, the 9.39Murphy and Mr. P. Muir, of Pimlico. complete reorganisation of the Japan-p.m. express from Ashford, Kent, to and Mr. E. Humphreys. The latter ese Naval Air Service in 1921, and Victoria, crashed into a siding here said: took Prince Chichibu on the intter's at 11.20 last night. first fight 10 years ago.

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The first tivo coaches of the train were telescoped. Wreckage strewn over a wide area.

The train, which was crowded with passengers, many of whom had been spending the day hiking and picnick- ing in the country, should have passed through Swanley. Owing to some mishap, at present unexplained, it be came diverted to the siding.

The

train passed through the station af between 50 and 60 miles an hour. Then it stopped abruptly. There was a flash, but surprisingly little naise. The front part of the lcain reared up into the air, then collapsed."

in front of the stop-block was a landed coal truck. The engine and tender crashed through this and the buffers and damaged an electrleal transformer standing in ruiled-off enclosure.

The engine crashed at a speed of 40 miles an hour into the stop- The station staff at Swanley Junc- block at the end of the siding. The tion who are not normally on duty so two following coaches were tele-Into on a Sunday night were quickly scoped, crushing men, women and summoned, and the parcels office was turned into a cousuilty station. The dead are still lying in the parcels office and will be taken to the local mortuary late in the morning.

children.

Dr. Dawson Crawford and his son. who practise In Swanley, were among the Arst at the scene. Assisted by firemen and platelayers from the stalion, they hacked their way through the sides and roofs of the į telescoped carriages to reach the dead

and injured,

All were searched for evidence of Identification, but none was found, and they had not been identified at 3.11.

The train connects with the South

Mr. Robert Daniels, who also lives Coast return express, and many of near the scene, said that in the the passengers were.excursionists who coach Immediately behind the two had spent the day at Folkestone and that were telescoped a baby girl was other South Coast resorts. found, playing and laughing in the confusion all around her,

Although the engine was smashed and the tender crushed, the driver and the Areman escaped with minor Injuries.

In response to an urgent SOS from the Swanley police ambulances were

The boiler of the engine was broken sent from Dartford, five miles away, and boiling water and steam burst and Farninghum, two miles away, forth, scalding the driver on the armis Early this morning more than 12 and body.

seriously Injured had been removed, The fireman was on the footplate Others, with minor injuries, were near the side of the train which struck treated on the spot.

the bank. Just before the impact he Firemen from local stations assisted threw himself out of the cab and in the rescue work.

landed in the bushes.

Passengers from the undamaged The electricity supply was imme- coaches alighted. Many of them were diately cut off by officials, and traffic taken to their homes in specially char-was temporarily disorganised, but as tered 'buses. Drivers and conductors the accident occurred on a siding the attarbed to the Swanley London main line was affected only for a very Transport garage, were wakened to abort while. drive thema.

Southern Rallway officials come The bodies of the dead-three from Landon early this morning to women and one man-were recovered survey the accident and took state- from the leading coach. All had been ments from the guard, driver and fire- killed instantly. They were taken to man. Swanley

Breakdown aty.

gongs were sent from London with oxy-ncetyleno metal- cutters, lights and other equipment to assist in the rescue work and the clearing of the line. Southern Rail- way official stated that there would be no interference with

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RAIL ACCIDENTS OF

LAST 9 YEARS

COLLISION VICTIMS

The last big rallway smash in Bri- The wreckage presented a spectacle tain, also on the Southern Railway, of the utmost confusion. The engine took place on April 2 of this year. was embedded in

in the high bank of the Ten people died and 18 were in- siding. The tender

had been reduced jured as a result of an electric train to scrap metal. The roof of the first running into the rear of a stallonary coach cut into the second couch and train on a viaduct a mile south of both were reduced to splintered wood Victoria Station.

and twisted metal.

coaches.

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Other railway accidents of the last It is believed that the train was nine years include the following: carrying some 300 passengers, of whom

train in about 60 were in the two shattered June 27, 1928,-Excursion

collision at Darlington 28 killed, 50 Injured. Sépt. 8, 1934—Hend on collision be

tween two passenger trains on the L.MS. Raway at Glasgow; killed, 34, injured. ! Sept. 28, 1934-Euston-Preston ex- press and focal train collide near Warrington, Lance; 11 killed, 30 Injured.

In the first coach weru a party of four women and two children. Three of the women were killed. but the fourth and the two children who were seleep at the time of the crash, had remarkable escapes.

1. One child was sleeping on the alde

· |farthest from" the érigine. When the crash come, It was thing to the other side into the lap of a woman who was subsequently found dead with head injuries and both legs broken.

Feb. 15, 1937.-York-Lowestoft ex- preis derailed near Sleaford, Lines; 4 plate-layers killed, 6 passengers injured...

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