SACCO’S HUNGER FAST

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1927, Page 7

SACCO’S HUNGER FAST

EARLY DEATH POSSIBLE BOMB DESTROYS THEATRE (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.. (By Cable-Press Assn. —Copyright.) NEW YORK, August 11. A message from Boston states that as the result of a twenty-five days hunger strike, there is a doubt whether Sacco will live out the respite. He collapsed when he tried to walk unaided from the death house, but he refused to end his fast. Mrs Rosina Sacco was also prostrated on seeing his condition. Warder Hendry is determined not to let the prisoner starve himself to death, and plans with the prison physician to feed him forcibly. Vanzetti took liquid refreshments, and is reported to be in better spirits. It isi believed that the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti depend on the ability of Counsel Hill to convince the Massachusetts Supreme Court, during the hearing on August 16, that Judge Thayer exhibited prejudice at their trial.

A bomb at Sacramento, evidently timed to explode at the hour of the Sacco and Vanzetti execution, smashed the roof of the State Theatre, and fire destroyed the building. The loss is estimated at a hundred thousand pounds. RISING IN BOLIVIA. TA PAZ (BOLIVIA). Aug. 12. A hundred Indians reported killed and many wounded by Bolivian troops suppressing a rising in the Potosi District, involving fifty thousand Indians, who seized farms, warehouses, and indulged in looting and burning. The origin of the trouble is said to be Communistic. TROTSKY AND STALIN FIGHT. LONDON, August 11. The most reliable interpretation of recent events in Moscow is probably that transmitted by the “Berliner Tagebatt’s” correspondent, who says: “The fight for Lenin’s crown will continue at present inside the Communist Party, but on much more equal terms. Trotsky’s army has been heartened by success and reinforcements, and Stalin has been correspondingly weakened. Trotsky is undoubtedly the abler of the two, but Stalin is more moderate, and will make a stronger appeal to the masses when the time comes, as it undoubtedly will, for a conflict to be carried on outside the party.”