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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, SATURDAY. JUNE 14. 1930. 13 SIR HENRY SEGRAVE DEAD. THE SURVIVOR.

SALFORD TRAM OVERTURNS. TEST MATCH "DID WE BREAK "Sudden Shudder One Companion Killed, the Second Safe Then Nightmare. but Injured. Segrave's Last Hours. Woman Killed and Twenty-Five Other Passengers Injured.

HURLED FROM THE OPEN-TOP DECK. THRILLS. England's Recovery, HOBBS CHAPMAN STAND. Five Grimmett Victims. BOAT 4 MARVELLOUS TILL THE CRASH.

The Fatal Dash. THE RECORD REPEATED QUESTION TO HIS WIFE. (From our Special Correspondent.) Bowsesb, Friday Night. Nothing now marks the scene of the disaster save a thin patch of oil on the surface of the lake. The police are still dragging for Halliwell's body, but as the lake is from 180 to 200 feet deep at this point their task seems difficult.

Mr. A. B. Peck, who is rear commodore of the Windermere Motor-boat Club, and waB with Sir Henry Segrave a heu he died, told me to-night We carried him up to the house on a temporary stretcher. He was attended by three doctors, who find that the right thigh was broken, that the ribs were One woman was killed and about twenty-five other passengers were injured last night in a tram cai accident near the entrance to Heaton Park, Manchester, on Bury Old Road.

Of the eight passengers detained hospital seven are women, and one of them is seriously injured. The tram, which belonged to the Salford Corporation, was tiavelhng from Whitefield in the direction of Victoria, Manchester, and was coming down the incline near the park when it fouled the points. The drivel apparently jammed on the brakes in an attempt to stave off disaster, but the car slewed round to the right, scarring the cobbled roadway, crashed into the bank, and tuined completely over on its left side. Fiung into the Road. The whole accident occurred within a distance of about half a dozen yard.

ENGLAND. First Inn I nil. Hobbs Rlohardion McCabe Tl Sutollffe Hornlbrook Fairfax Hammond Ibw Grimmatt Woolley at Oldflald 0 Handren Grimmatt A. P. F.

Chapman Poniford Hornlbrook st Larwood Grimmatt it R. W. V. Robins not out a Tata Grimmett 13 4, lb 5, nb 1 10 Total (for mi TyWesley (R.) and Duckworth to bat. road.

A large breakdown gang from Salford Corporation Tramways was soon on the spot, followed by a powerful derrick, but at a late hour this morning they had not succeeded in removing the car, which they were busily engaged in dismantling. The Casualties. The casualties nie DEAD Gertrude Whitton (151, King Street. Leicester Road, Broughton. SERIOUSLY INJURED.

Aina Kane (grave head injuries, 26, Heatou Street, Cheetham. DETAINED IN HOSPITAL. Marie Holdsworth, 13, Victor Street, Lower Broughton. Lucv O'Brien, 10, Snow don Street, Higher Broughton. Ada Ryder (47) (head injuries), 55, Bignor Street.

Edwin Denham 52, 128, Lower Broughton Road, Lower Broughton. Mary Williams. Ada Willis (56) (head injuries), 4S2, Great Cheetham Street, Higher Broughton. Emma Starr. TREATED IM HOSPITAL AVD SEWT HOME.

Gladys Cohen (17 1. 20. Faraday Road, Cheetham; Hilda Hardman (27), 2, MISS ENGLAND DISASTER. Crew Thrown Out at 100 m.p.h. After Creating New Record.

(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) BOWNESS-ON-WLNDERMERE, Friday. In beating the world's speed record on water in Miss England II. on Lake Windermere this afternoon Sir Henry Segrave and one of Ins two mechanics, Mr. Victor Halliwell (one of the Rolls-Royce Company's engineers), were killed. The third member of the crew, Air.

J. Willcocks, was injured. While travelling at 100 miles an hour Miss England II. overturned, throwing her occupants into the water. Mr.

Halliwell was not seen again. Sir Henry Segrave was rescued just as he was sinking by Mr. P. F. King, of Troutbeck, who dived in from a launch near by and dragged him to the boat, which took him ashore to Belle Grange, a private house by the lake side.

His injuries, however, were terrible, and he died three hours later. Lady Segrave was with him when the end came. Accident Unexplained. Sir Henry's first words when he was pulled out of the water were "Did we break the record?" Later it was announced that before the accident happened Sir Henry had successfully beaten the record. He covered the first mile at 96.41 miles an hour and the second mile at 101.11 miles an hour.

The mean of the two, which now constitutes the world's speed record on water, is 98.76 miles per hour (93.123 was the old record). It is not yet certain how the accident occurred. Before Miss England sank damage could be clearly seen to the "step" on the bottom of the hull as is shown in the photograph on page 9J. Whether the shell of the boat had burst through an internal explosion in front of the cockpit, or whether the tremendous pounding on the water had been too much for it remains to he seen. It was stated, however, that the propeller, which Sir Henry had expected to smash, was intact.

Miss England now lies many fathoms below the surface. THE STORY OF THE CRASH. Plucky Dive to Sir Henry's Aid. (From our Special Correspondent.) P. F.

King, of Troutbeck, had been manoeuvring half-way down the measured mile to get a photograph oi Miss England as it came past for the third time. Mr. King stood with his camera on the bows of the launch waiting to snap the button. Miss England was directly opposite us," said Mr. King to the Manchester Guardian's" representative, ''when her bows appeared to lift, and without warning she turned over and I saw the men thrown out.

She disappeared in a cloud of spray, but two white helmets came to the surface. One was forty yards away, but was near a launch which was coming up, so I did not worry about that one and instead concentrated upon the man who was struggling only twenty yards awaj. DIVED TO SIR HENRY'S HELP. Just as became inert I saw it was Sir Henry Segrave, and I told Freeman to bear straight to him. 1 (From Press Association Correspondent.) Bowness, Fhiday.

To-night I Baw Wilcocks, the only survivor. He was in a bedroom in the Old England Hotel where Sir Henry stayed. The hotel overlooks the waters of Windermere. Wilcocks was unaware of Sir Henry's death. When I told him that the world's speed record had been broken, he said "Well, I am certain my friend Halli well will have gone happily, knowing that he has helped to achieve that for which he set out." Wilcocks supervised the installations of the engines in Miss England, and accompanied Sir Henry on every trial run he made.

1 I have no idea what happened to cause the accident," he said. We may have struck an object or we may not. We made one run at over ninety miles an hour and on the other we exceeded, I know, the three-figure mark Then wo decided to tuin round and make a thud attempt, and as we swung round the second buov Sir Henry stood on the throttle pedal The Speed Thrill. We were all keyed up and tense. We knew anything might happen, but we were taking the.

risk. The engines were behaving splendidly arid the feeling was marvellous. The boat was right on top of her form, and we knew that we were travelling faster than man has ever travelled on water before. Then it happened. It is like a nightmare new.

All I know was that there was a sudden shudder. I seemed to be falling, falling, falling. That is all I remember. I must have then lost consciousness. I next remember lying in a boat.

I have a hazy recollection of being attended to by several people, and then I came to, to find myself lying in this bed. I am so pleased we have broken the record, but the loss of life is ghastly. Wilcocks has one eye hurt and his face is bruised, while, he had a big gash in his side, yet he continued calmly to smoke one cigarette alter anotner. A Change of Mind. Mr.

A. G. Eeynolds, one of the official timekeepers, said We understood that Sir Henry was to have made an attempt on the mile both ways, and then he was going to change his bronze propeller for the steel one, which is faster. Appar ently he changed his mind and came 1 a ubuk. a.

iiiira xime wim tne oronze pro peller." Sir Henry was one of the most popular men here, and he always had a iriundly wura lor everyDoay. When the news of the tragedy jpread crowds besieged Sir Henry Segrave's hotel, which is on the waterside, and the sheds where the boat is housed a quarter of a mile away. Special Police Brought Up. Special police were brought on the scene to deal with them. Doctors were immediately summoned and telephone inquiries came from all parts of the country.

At the boat-shed a group of anxious-eyed mechanics were waiting for the news. They had seen, three miles away, the boat plunge into a Bea of foam and they had heard her engines suddenly cease. They were almost frantic, for many of them had been working night and day for six months at the sheds at Cowes in order to perfect Miss England II. They were now broken-hearted, and one of them said This has just knocked the stuffing right out of us. What is there to be said It is terrible.

All our labours have eone down." Before going out Sir Henry Segrave had said Well, now for it She has chewed up three propellers, and I am trying a bronze one on her now. If this fails I shall put a steel one on, and if that fails I shall postpone my attempt for a week or so to make experiments with a new propeller. The boat is an absolute experi ment and anyinmg may happen, but we have not to trust to luck and the wonder ful skill of those who have been working on her for so long." THE DEAD ROLLS-ROYCE ENGINEER. Mr. V.

Halliwell, whose wife accom panied him to the Lake District for the trials, had been with the Rolls-Royce Company in Derby for five years! He was extremely popular in the works. An engineer's tester, engaged in the experimental department, he was regarded as a clever mechanic, familiar in particular with high-speed engines. He and his wife, whose parents live in the Bristol district, had resided in. Chain Lane, Mickleover, near Derby. They have a boy aged two and a half years.

Mr. Willcocks was picked up by the boat of Major Pattinson, the clerk of the course, and Lord Brecknock, in Miss London, undertook the search for Mr. Halliwell. FAILURE TO SALVE MISS ENGLAND. After the crash the overturned Miss England floated waterlogged for some fifteen minutes, and launches attempted to tow her to the side of the lake.

The wrecked boat, however, then began to sink stern (engine) end first, and soon disappeared The lake hereabouts is 1B0 feet deep the deepest part of Windermere. A portion of the hull of the boat. measuring about six feet by three, was the only wreckage picked up, and this is being examined by experts in an attempt to ascertain the cause of the accident. Mr. Fred Cooper, the designer of the boat, was waitine at the nhivl nnri see the accident.

He said: "From what J. can gatner, the boat might have struck some small submerged object. Even a bottle floating in the water would have been sufficient to have caused the capsizing of the boat. I It hna snnJc in neirhr two hundred feet of water, and I cannot say whether she can be salved and1 whether she can be reconditionad to make tmuuier attempt. luoken on the right side, and that one nb had penetrated the right iung, which caused hremoirhage.

Lady Seciave had watchea the star from the shore and walked three or lour hundred yards to the house to meet us. one was witti air Henry to the end. sir Henry remained conscious until within a moment or two of his death. He kept asmng ne had broken the world record. Lady Segrave told him that lie had.

and later she was able io tell him what speed he had done, t-ir Henry was in gieat pain, but he boie it wonderfully, nnd throuchuiit it lie Lady Segrave that he was ell neht. lie died at 5 15. Before he went out for the attack on the lecord he remarked jocularly to hi: friends that it was Fririav the thiiteenth and lie wondered what would hannen. He discussed with me what would happen if they got thrown into the water, because the water, he said, would be as hard as a ooara. Sir Henry Segrave's father arrived to-night.

Jrle left btag Lane Aerodrome within an hour of the news reaching London, and flew to Man chester, making the rest of the journey in Sir Henry's car, which was sent to meet him. Sir Henry's mother also reached Bowness from Huyton. They are both with Lady Segrave. THE PROPELLER UNDAMAGED. What Caused the Crash Mr.

F. Bamford. of F. Bamford and the Stockport engineers who supplied the bronze propeller with which Sir Henry set up the new world record yesterday, in an interview last right with a "Manchester Guardian" reporter, said that he saw the crash from the Rolls-Royce official boat, in which one of the passengers, by the way, was Mrs. Halli well, whose husband was lost in the disaster.

The propeller," he said, was fetched by bir Henry's car from Stockport to Bowness early yesterday morning, and had been specially made in the light of the experience gained in the trials. Sir Henry's plan wits understood to be that after the journey up and down the measured mile ne would examine the pro peller oeiore making a third attempt, but apparently he was so pleased with the performance of the boat that he decided to mane me tinrd run without delay. sir Henry had never before to-day been able to open out, but, in the third run he reached, in my opinion, a very much higher speed than that the first two. Mr. Willcocks.

the engineer who was saved from Miss England, was taking a note the revolutions of the engine, and though his notes must, of course, have been lost he may be able to remember what were the revolutions during the i i iiuiu mil ituui wiijuu, oy cuLurasir wilil the revolutions in the earlier runs, it would he possible to calculate the speed. Leaped Clean Over. It was when this run was three-quarters completed that suddenly the boat swerved to the left and immediately shot up. Tho whole boat seemed to rise in the air, and, as far as one could see in the spray, seemed actually to leave the water. She turned upside down and dropped.

It could be seen when she dropped that the propeller was standing, bich suggests that the engine had been shut off. The propeller was intact." Mr. Bamford, asked if he had any theory as to the cause of the accident, said that tho report that the boat had a hole in it was, his opinion, incorrect if she had had a hole in her the boat would have sunk quickly. His theory was that the movable step which has to do with the planing under the boat, and which can be adjusted when in dock if the helmsman desires, had struck some submerged object and become twisted in such a way as to catch the air, so that it actually pulled the boat over. When the boat was seen lying upside down the step could be seen partly torn away on the left side.

The manacer of Saunders Roe, who built Miss England and who knew Sir Henry Segrave well, said: It looks as if there must have been an obstruction. I do not think there could have been anything the matter with the boat or engine. All the technical experts will await some evidence as to the actual cause of the accident with the greatest anxiety, and meanwhile I can say that we deplore the death of a great adventurer and TRIBUTES AND MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY. Mr. Gar Wood's Distress.

Among messages of sympathy sent to Lady Segrave is one from the Master of Sempill, on behalf of the Royal Aeronautical Society, of which he is president. The message speaks of her "gallant and widely talented husband," and refers to Sir Henry's recent renewed interest in aviation, in which he had filled such a distinguished part in the war." The news came as a great shock to the American public telegraphs Reuter's New York correspondent). Mr. Gar Wood, America's premier motor-boat driver, who held the world's record until it was beaten by Sir Henry yesterday, said Sir Henry Segrave was one of my very best friends. The news of this fatal accident has come as a terrible shock to me.

I feel completely upset about it. I looked upon him as an outstanding figure in the demonstration of the art of high-speed achievements. His loss, I know, will be mourned by every sportsman in the world, particularly by those Interested in the ultimate speed of motor-boats and high-speed cars. Lord WakeTSeld said I mourn the loss of a friend. To say that he was the most courageous man.

I have over met is only a small part of my conception of him. His loss is a tragic national loss." V-UX OP THE WICKETS. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 53 63 63 71 153 1S3 218 241 Australia. W. jr.

Woodfull, V. Y. Richardson. A. F.

Kippax. V. H. Pons-ford, D. G.

Bradman. S. McCabe. A. Fairfax, W.

A. Oldfield, C. V. Grimmett. T.

Wall, and P. M. Hornlbrook. By Cricketer. Nottingham, Friday.

On a beautiful Trent Bridge wickefc the first Test match began this morning, nnd England had tho felicity of taking first innings an important advantage in a four-day match. It was the sort of wicket on which Arthur Shrewsbury seldom began an innings without taking the precaution of ordering a cup of tea to be brought out to him at a quarter to four exactly. Wall attacked Ilobbs with a long run and every other outward show of a bowler of much velocity save that his captain thought fit to place the field with only two slips in it. A gap between backward point and second slip was quickly found out by Hobbs, whose strokes from the outset robbed Wall's fast medium deliveries of a yard of speed which they could not afford to yield. When Grimmett joined issue neither Hobbs nor Sutcliffe gave the field substantial encouragement.

True, Sutcliffe sent a sharp slip catch to Hornibrook from a spinning-away ball by Grimmett when England were 22, but the unexpectedness of this mishap Hornibrook was clearly an astonished man may be taken as the measure of the general ease and certainty of touch whereby both. Sutcliffe and Hobbs had batted so far. Few strokes were made behind the wicket from Grimmett a certain sign that the bat was meeting the break in the blade's true middle. When a leg-spin bowler is causing batsmen to come forward to him he inspires himself further by the knowledge that a cricket bat possesses an edge. Hohbs and Sutcliffe contrived for an hour to keep that knowledge entirely abstract and academic.

Disasters Follow Contentment. Sutcliffe once or twice drove Hornibrook through the covers with a freedom and grace which in a Lancashire and Yorkshire match might have savoured of bad taste and wantcymees. Wall struck Sutcliffe on the hand twice in one over, but little other encouragement came Australia's way. The situation of England after an hour's cricket was apparently lapped round by calm and prosperous waters. Hobbs and Sutcliffe quite set, Grimmett face to face with his masters why, at this period I imagined that Woodfull was wondering to himself at what time cf day the new ball would bn available.

The Trent Bridge crowd sat round the field in ample contentment. Thus did the sporting gods cunningly prepare for us a nice opiate of complacence. At a quarter to one, with England 53, Fairfax, who so far had worked with a quite moral ardour and never looked likely to get anybody out until Richard Tyldesley came in, sent to Sutcliffe a Viall wTiicTi whipped off the turf at a very deceitful pace, leaving fiutcliffe no alternative but a reflex action. A natch hitrh nn in the shn was the inevitable consequence of bat's edge touching an outswinger. When Hammond's innings opened we were straightway put back into the fool's paradise by two strokes which could modestly be described as fine fruit of cricket's long culture.

One of them waa a quick-footed drive past cover-point off Grimmett: the movements were done so much in advance of the stroke itself that when we saw the drive the effect was statuesque a thrilling instance of energy transfixed and rendered more durable than the life of any event because of the art that had gone into it. But Hammond was out leg before wicket to a surreptitious top-spinner from Grimmett when England were 63. The very next ball, exquisitively flighted, drew all of Woolley's elegance forward, and, though his toe was over the crease for only the twinkling of an eye, Oldfield found time both to etumr him and also to perform a flourish whach I can only call callous. Grimmett, who is a curiously furtive bowler and as quick to jump to a chance as Catastrophe in old comedy, seemed to spin the ball Quicker from the earth and it more and more two-facedly through the air as he realised that the game's wind waa blowing luck in Australia's tracks for the while. His bowling gave 4.1.

-r-r inc. tuu xmiJiconitJii ui uxmg xienaren in an eternal attitude of what somebody in Dickens would have called nonplussedness. The second ball to him and the one after that hung in the air, and then, while Hendren jumped speculatively out of his ground witti a bat sweeping across desperately, it dropped and spun away. Oldfield nearly stumped Hendren, and ap parently he thought he had done so. Hendren never looked durable: Grimmett held him in thrall he put on Mm what the music-halla used to call the "fluence." Hendren waa fourth out at 71, and if he played the ball into bis wicket he -was fortunate to find any point of contact with the ball at all.

Leg-Breaks of Length'. In quick sequence England lost Sutcliffe, Hammond, Woolley, and Hendren while the score was moving from 53 to .11.. Grinunett's bowling was as clever as alow spin poaribly wold he on Trent Bridge -wicket Seldom 1 and bo sudden was the 6hock that scarcely any of the passengers had time to grasp what was happening. Those seated on the open top deck were flung violently into the loadway while thoe inside found themselves thrown to the floor, which was littered with splintered glass. One of the injured passengeis told a "Manchester Guardian" leporter that as the car toppled over ho attempted to clutch at the Fide and sae himself, hut such was the forco of the fall that his grip was wrenched lose and he was pitched into the road.

He sustained head injuries. Although large crowds soon congregated on the spot, virtually the only witnesses of the accident were passing motoiists, who immediately conveyed the injured to the Manchester Jewish Hospital in Elizabeth Street, Cheetham Hill. A motor-'bus also assisted in this work, with the result that when the ambulances arrived most of those in need of their assistance had been removed. At the Jewish Hospital doctors, sisters, and nurses worked hard to meet this big tax upon their resources, while large crowds hung around the gate in tho hopes of getting news of the injured. All Traffic Diverted.

The police had to divert all traffic, as the tram blocked most of the width the EXPORT TRADE IN MAY. Textiles Hard Hit. NEARLY 7,000,000 DOWN ON LAST YEAR. The foreign trade figures for May compare rather more favourably with those for the corresponding month last year than the April figures did, but, nevertheless. the position revealed by the Board of Trade returns is an unsatisfactory one.

The value and volume of trade in most classes of goods were larger than in April, but there were more working days in the later month, and, while prices of most commodities were substantially lower last month than they were a year previously, the change in the price level does not explain away all the diminution as compared with May last year in the value of tho trade. Among imports, manufactured goods held their own fairly well, but there were lower values for all raw materials except coal and other non-metalliferous mining products, iron ore and scrap, and wood and timber, suggesting that the condition of manufacturers' order-books is not such as to warrant heavy expenditure on materials. Moreover, except for an increase of 2,202 in living animals for lood and one oi in venicies, sinaJIer values are shown in every class of exports. Exports of coal were slightly lower than in May last year, iron and steel manufactures were 1,772,973 lower, and those of machinery were 1,057,010 lower, while non-ferrous metals and apparel were both lower by more iian 500,000. Virtually all classes of textiles were exported in smaller quantities, the total fall in value in textile exports as compared with May last year being no less than 6335,179, out of a total fall ol 13,582,265 in the value of manufactured goods exported.

The stoppage of many of the Yorkshire mills has no doubt caused most of the fall in exports of wool textiles, but the -exports of cotton goods were affected chiefly by smaller purchases for China, and the Indian troubles are scarcely reflected in the export figure for May, though they are sure to leave their mark on the figures for the present month. Further detail! of the returns are given in our commercial pages. LQRRY STRUCK BY TRAIN. One Man Killed and Another Injured. (From our Correspondent.) Wigxs, Feidat.

As a result of a collision between a motor-lorry and a coal train at a level crossing at Messrs. Pearson and Knowles's Colliery, Lower Ince, this afternoon, William Bankes (19), of Bella Green Lane, Higher Ince, near Wig an, the driver of the lorry was killed. John Barton (35), also of Bello Green Lane, the brakesman, sustained evere injuries to his ribs and head. The train was passing over the crossing from Pearson and Knowles's sidings to Westwood sidings when the collision occurred. The wheels of the wagons passed over the lorry and Bankes was dead when extricated.

Barton was detained at the Wigan Infirmary. FOREIGN TELEGRAMS ON PAGE 8: French Support for Arbitration. Gene 7a Labour Dicustipns Armed Parties in Austria. Grosenor Stieet, Hoaton Park (injured hand); Margaret Beaks (23), 88, Grosvenor Street; Lena Broughton (31), 99, Bell Lane, Bury; Alio Warburton (II), 2, Grosvenor Street, Heaton Park; W. 15.

Ashworth (51), 21, Hall Road, Cnmipsnll rfshook and bruises), and F. O. Ashworth (49, his wife, cuts and shock; Arthur Jlylee (34), 34, Roacl, Higher Crumpsall (shock and abrasions) Harold French i26), 34, Haversham Road, Higher Crumpsall (injuries to leg); Wilfrid Fairbrother (67) (cut head, injuries to left leg), and Ellen Fan-brother (591, his wife, 38, Manchester Road, Middleton (cut head, shock); Frank Willis, 462, Great Cheetham Street, Higher Broughton (head injuries) Norman Chamberlain (31), 6, Lichfield Street, Sedgley Road, Prestwieh (cut face and head); Louis Popplovitch, 27, Rigby Street, Lower Broughton (injury to left leg) J. Grimshaw (22), of Higher Broughton; Bertha Westwell. T.T." RECORD BROKEN.

Handley Exceeds 75 m.p.h. ITALIAN RIDER HURT. (From our Correspondent.) Douglas, Fhidai. W. L.

Handley, riding a Senior Rudge machine, broke all records for the Tourist Trophy motor-cycle course in the Isle of Man to-day. The record stood at 30min. or 73 55 m.p.h., eet up by C. J. P.

Dodson, of Manchester, in winning the race last year. Handley knocked 40sec. off this figure with a speed of 75.2 m.p.h. Dodson's record was also broken twice by C. J.

Williams (Raleigh), who lapped in 30min. 45sec. and 30min. 39s ec. Ghersi Injured.

Pietro Ghersi, the crack Italian rider, who holds the Light-weight lap record for the course, ran into the nedge at Gooseneck, near Ramsay, this morning. His knee was very badly cut and he was removed to hospital. After an X-ray examination it waB announced that he will be unable to ride. Tada, the Japanese rider, had another spill this morning but wa3 not seriously hurt. MALTA CRISIS.

Lord Strickland's Sudden Visit to England. (Reuter's Telegram.) Malta, Fbidat. The Privy Council was again urgently summoned to the Palace to-day. The members met at one o'clock and sat for half an hour, and then met again at three. At the time of telegraphing the Council is still conferring.

Nothing has transpired, but it is believed that special legislation to strengthen the hands of the police in dealing with demonstrations is likely as the result of to-day's deliberations. Latsb. Lord Strickland, the Prime Minister, is leaving unexpectedly for London tomorrow in order to confer with the Colonial Office regarding the present critical situation in Malta. With regard to to-day's meetinc of the Privy Council it is understood that no special ordinance will be issued, but only police notices. WOMAN CYCLIST KILLED Car Overturned in Effort to Avoid Collision.

The Ash police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred on the main road from Sandwich to Ash, when a young woman cyclist was run into by a car and killed instantly. The dead woman is apparently a stranger to the district, as she has not yet been identified. She was cycling along a country lane emerging from a concealed turning into the main when the car struck her cycle broadside on. The owner of the car made great efforts to avoid a collision, running his car into the hedge; with th result that it toppled over, and its occupant had; gwrnagfraMe escapes from injury. i BoWNESS-ON-WlNDERMERE, FRIDAY Evening.

Miss England fitted with a new bronze propeller, was in the water at two o'clock. The two official timekeepers, Colonel Lindsay Lloyd and Mr. George Reynolds, took up their positions at Red Nab and Wray Castle, which represented the ends of the measured nautical mile, and opposite which were the black and white buoys to give Sir Henry his steering points. The clerk of the course, Major Pattin-bon, speeded up the lake in his launch to clear a channel between the scores of launches and rowing-boats which were dotted about on the water while Miss England and her crew of three aboard were towed by Miss London (Sir Henry's launch) to within three-quarters of a mile of the beginning of the measured mile. THE STILL, GREY LAKE.

Crowds of people had gathered on Adelaide Hill, a piece of rising ground commanding a bird's-eye view of the lake. There was not a breath of air to ruffle the surface of the lake, which was grey and dull. The air was heavy, while a haze hid the sun and gave the hills around an ominous gloom. Sir Henry, a figure in white, could be seen standing on the bows of his silver-grey boat. Miss London was seen to cast off and move out of the way.

OFF IN A CLOUD OF BLACK SMOKE. Sir Henry climbed to his seat between the two white-helmeted and the engine roared its warning. Clouds of black smoke poured out of the vertical exhaust-pipes, died away, and were left floating over a white turmoil of broken water, for Miss England had suddenly moved forward. A3 the boat gathered speed the bows lifted perceptibly, the stern sank down to water-level, two white feathers of spray curved upwards, and the thunder of the engines gave way to a drone louder than that of an aeroplane. Gaining speed every second, Miss England swept past the first buoy of Red Nab, and in less than a minute had flashed past the second buoy and was slowing up to turn.

One mile had been covered and all was well. Without pausing, Sir Henry, having successfully turned, drove his boat back down the mile stretch. To those of us who were watching from the hill it seemed as if the run was some seconds better, but before any calculations could be made Miss England was once more tearing up the lake to cover the mile for the third time. THE CRASH. Half-way between the two buoys a cloud of spray higher than the rest leapt up from the flying boat.

Without dropping from her speed of one hundred miles an hour, Miss England gave a violent swerve to the left, turned over in a smother of spray, and disappeared. The bottom broke through the surface and two perhaps three white helmets could be seen in the water. Then the scene was obliterated by launches converging in from all sides of the lake. Captain Freeman, of the laiMich Pip, of "Windermere, and Mr. 1 WZ.

i AMBLESIDE dived overboard and grabbed him just as he was going down. Another launch faster than ours had now come up, so I dragged Sir Henry to it and clambered abroad, and then helped to drag him out of the water. Sir Henry came round for about two minutes. He obviously did not know where he was, for he jubilantly asked Did we break the record 1 and then became unconscious again. He was taken ashore to a private house while I got back in Freeman's launch to get away and change my wet Mr.

Halliwell, who was one of the Rolls-Royce Company's engineers his wife and child were on Windermere at the time of the accident, could not be found. Mr. Willcocks was taken to Windermere with a badly cut face. THE INQUEST. As Sir Henry Segrave died in the Lancashire district of Fnmess the inquest will be held by Mr.

Fred W. Poole, the Fumess coroner, at 5 30 this evening at Storrs. Only formal evidence of identification and medical evidence will be taken to-day. Sketch of Segrave's career and photograplis on pages 7 and 9.1 Jewess Wn.