MINOR DISTURBANCES

Evening Star, Issue 19632, 11 August 1927, Page 5

MINOR DISTURBANCES

PRECAUTIONS AT BOSTON THE “ DEATH WATCH." Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, NEW YORK, August 9, In many cities throughout the country protest meetings were held late today, with only minor disturbances. About 100 picket leaders were arrested. Sporadic strikes are reported to be widespread, but accounts of the actual number of men out throughout the nation are conflicting. The Socialists and the I.W.W. claim that there are 1,000,000 strikers, while the police authorities say that there arc less than a tenth of that number. ~ Various Sacco-Vanzetti committees have issued invitations to all Liberals and Radicals to come to Boston wearing mourning bands and to attend the socalled death watch at the execution. Boston itself is the scene of extraordinary precaution against disturbances. The gaol where the execution is to occur will not be approachable for a mile. The police, national guardsmen, and Federal troops arc marshalled for any emergency. MUSSOLINI'S EFFORTS UNAVAILING. LONDON, August 9. The Rome correspondent of the London ‘ Times ’ says that Signor Mussolini has informed Sacco’s father that he has done everything compatible with international procedure to save Sacco and Vaneztti. HOMES GUARDED IN MELBOURNE SYDNEY, August 10. The ‘homes of the Consul for the United States, Mr Arthur Garrols, at South Yarra, and the Vice-Consul, Mr E. Moran, at Toorak, have been placed under an armed police guard, as attacks by Sacco-Vanzetti sympathisers are feared. No steps have been taken in Sydney to guard Consul-General Lawton, as trouble is not anticipated.

DEMONSTRATION IN CHICAGO MOB LEO BY GIRL “ON, COMRADES.” VANCOUVER, August 10. (Received August 11, at 9.20 a.m.) Singing the ‘ Third Internationals,’ a mob of 4,000, led by a si.xtcen-year-olcl schoolgirl, invaded the business district of Chicago early to-day, following a protest meeting in connection with the Sacco-Vanzetti conviction. The police dispersed the gathering by using tear bombs and revolvers. They arrested sixty-seven men and four women. The mob moved on towards the City Hall, with the girl in the load crying “On, comrades. Mob Hie police. Strike! Strike! Sacco and Vanzctti mustn’t die. I’m an anarchist. Follow me.”—A. and N.Z. and ‘Sun’ Cable. BRITAIN QUIET

GUARD ON AMERICAN. EMBASSY. fßritish Official News.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, RUGBY, August 10. (Received August 11, at 11.30 a.m.) Except for two or throe small and orderly open-air meetings of protest, the demonstrations in many centres, throughout the world against the Sacco and Vanzctti sentences have not been reproduced in Britain. Merely as a precautionary measure, however, the British police authorities are maintaining guards on the United States Embassy and Consulate in London.