AMERICA SCARED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 185, 8 August 1927, Page 7

AMERICA SCARED.

BOMBING GALORE. J Outrages Attributed To Pending I Executions. i SACCO-VANZETTI AGITATION. (By Cable—Press Association.—Copyright.) XEW YORK, August 7. Throughout the entire country, particularly in the east, the people are nervous because of what they consider is a reign of terror connected with the pending execution of the two Italians, Sacco and Vanzetri, for the murder of a pay-clerk in 1920. Four bomb explosions occurred at stations on the Broadway subway on Friday evening. Four people were injured, two of them seriously. The outrages are believed by the police to have been perpetrated by sympathisers with the two Italians, who are to be electrocuted next week. As the. date fixed for the execution approaches their counsel is making frenzied attempts to secure a further reprieve. The explosions shattered the plateglass windows of shops along three blocks on Broadway, ripped the subway rails from their bed, and shattered concrete walls. Passers-by were thrown into a panic in the belief that Radical riots had broken out. The outrages were committed at widely separated points on the two main Hibway arteries of Xew York. The services were completely dislocated. AH the available police have been mobilised. Those on holiday leave have been recalled to the city and the reserves have been called out. Various other outrages have already been perpetrated in addition to the bombing of the subway stations in Xew York. At Philadelphia a terrific explosion wrecked the basement of a large Presbyterian church on Friday evening. A bomb exploded in the house of the Mayor of Baltimore, Mr. Broening. The house was slightly damaged, but the members of the family were not injured. The Mayor himself was not at home at the time. Another bomb exploded in the Emanuol Presbyterian Church, Baltimore. The building was badly damaged but nobody was within when the explosion occurred. An attempt was made to set fire to the State House at Boston. Suspects were arrested in the vicinity of St. Pa trick's Cathedral, Xew York, and elsewhere. Work of Radicals. The. police have nothing definite on which to link these outrages with the friends of Sacco and Vanzetti, but they declare their absolute conviction that they were all the work of Radicals incensed at the imminence of the execution of their two comrades. The general effect of the explosions lias been to create a feeling of tension such as has not been known in Xew York since the Wall Street explosion some years ago. , Policemen are now guarding almost every subway and elevated railway station. The Government Building at Boston and the subways in that citv are also being guarded. Special police are pa trolling in front of the- State buildings. Similar measures have been taken at the Federal Buildings at Washington, also at the City Hall there, at the Executive Mansion and State buildings at Albany, and in various other centres. Special squads of policemen are also protecting prominent men. The President, Mr. Coolidge, who is still on vacation at Rapid City, Dakota, is strongly guarded, as was President Wilson during the war. The. Governor of Massachusetts, Mr. Alvan Fuller, who decided that Sacco and Vanzetti must go to the electric chair according to the Court's decision, also has special protection. An extra number of secret service men accompanied the Secretary of State, Mr. F. B. Kellogg, and the vicePresident, Mr. C. G. Dawes, to Niagara Falls, where they are to meet the Prince of Wales for the international Peace Bridge ceremonies.

The only striking exception to this general system of protection is Judge Thayer, the most sev-rely criticised figure in the Saeco-Vanzetti case, who condemned the men to death. He refuses to have any bodyguard to protect him at his summer home. There Is grave anxiety that reprisals by the Radicals may follow the execution of the prisoners. ON TRAFALGAR SQUARE. ANTI-AMERICAN FEELING. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 7. A spectacle of a home-made electric chair, complete with huge voltmeters, a black hood and foil plates at the Nelson Column in Trafalgar Square surprised Londoners early this afternoon. The occasion was the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration organised by the International Class War Prisoners Aid Society. A crowd of 5000, composed largely of delegates of London Communist branches from the industrial suburbs, eang revolutionary songs and waved placards, "Down with the American torturers." A resolution was passed as follows: "Wβ desire to show American Imperialism that London workers will do all possible to save Sacco and Vanzetti." After the meeting a deputation proceeded to the American Embassy to present the resolution. Meetings in France. At Paris, tie Communist syndicate of Anezin mines called a 24-hour strike. Mass meetings of protest were held at Roubaix and Lille. Gangs of workmen on lorry loads of timber and breakdown cranes, police cordons and thousands of sightseers combine to form a remarkable scene in the centre of the city. A message .'rom Buenos Aires states that violence has marked the spread of a general strike in the interior of Argentina in connection with the pending execution in New York of Sacco and Vanzetti. A bomb exploded on Friday evening at the Ford agency's building in Pergamir.o. Another exploded on a railway line. The damage was small. Demonstrators roamed the streets of Buenos Aires and the stores were closed.' (A. and N.Z. and Sydney "Sun."J