Nearly 400 persons were killed or injured in this country every day in 1926 in road accidents, while accidents to persons or property numbered nearly 800 per day. During the year, 4,886 persons were killed: and 133,888 injured in 124,287 road necidents. These figures are given by the general secretary of the Ni tional Safety First "Association. While there has been a rise in the annual total of accidents ever since' 1018, there is small comfort in the knowledge that there was a slight) check la the rate of increase last yea Several recommendations are] made, including Government research into accident causation, the issue of regulations dealing ' with certain. matters responsible for; traffic trouble, the standardization of siting of road signs, and special, mobile police to deal with offending road users, A Decadent The coal industry undoubtedly is in a very bad way and all sorts'of schemes are under discussion to help it, Thousands of men in North Wales earned less than £1 last week, owing to short time, and in the south the state of affairs is worse.
The march of 200 South Wales: miners to London, to make known their serious plight, ended on Saturday in Trafalgar Square, where representatives of London Communit organizations were gathered rect them. While waiting, the crowd, numbering about—3,000, showered copper and silver coins on to the base of the Nelson Column, and two <3 notes and many £1 and 10s. notes were gathered in a collection. Apparently we are to have on another day the debate on the} industry which last week was prevented by the Labour Party, who howled down the President of the!
Board of Trade, who was put up) to speak instead of Mr. Baldwin. Coal mining, however, never will regain its old time prosperity.
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