EXECUTIONS IN U.S.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 215, 25 August 1927, Page 5

EXECUTIONS IN U.S.

FUNERAL OF THE VICTIMS DISPUTE ARISES. FRIENDS WANT MONSTER PROCESSION. ißy Cable —Press Assn. — Copyright.] (Received 25, 12.30 p.m.) New York, Aug. 24. General calm prevails throughout the United States following the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. This affords singular contrast to tho outbreaks in Geneva, Paris and other European centres. With the exception of the death of a State trooper there have been ca fatalities and few demonstrations. Americans display little anxiety regrading European riots believing these are not indicative of the real emotions of the countries in which they have oceupred, but that they are largely the work of extremists and criminal opportunists who are using the executions as a pretext. Tho American Legion is proceeding with its plans for a convention in Paris regardless of the disturbances, which the French Minister of Communications, M. Boganouski, now in New York, characterises as absurd In the meautime their deaths have apparently not ended the dissension over Sacco and Vanzetti. The latest dispute has arisen over the funeral arrangements. The State laws requite either burial or cremation within four days, but friends of the deceased have declared they will defy the police and health officials and stage a' monster funeral parade through the streets of Boston on August 28, when it is expected that thousands will join the procession unless the authorities succeed in preventing it. After that, sympathisers are planning to have the bodies crerhated and to exhibit Vanzetti’s ashes in New York, London, Paris, Berlin and Stockholm, and finally in Rome, while the remains of Sacco are likely to tie buried by his widow in Massachusetts in unconsecrated ground Vanzett’s sister will accompany her brother's ashes.—(A. and N.Z.) THE PARIS RIOTINGS: 1000 PERSONS INJURED. HEAVY PROPERTY DAMAGE. (Received 25, 10.40 a.m.) Paris, Aug. 24. When Paris took stock of the frenzied rioting, which was not quelled until long after midnight, it found 1000 injured, including 124 policemen. The-, property damage is estimated at £lOO,OOO. The majority of the injuries are only slight, tfougli various reports say that several policemen are in a critical condition as a result of knife wounds. Montmartre was singled out for the special violence of the mob, where, without interruption, they smashed shop.- and hurled the contents into the streets because of the limited number of police available. They tore up decorative street trees which they used as weapons, and motor cars waiting at Moulin Rouge were stripped of their contents, the tyres slashed and the vehicles then overturned to make barricades. Tree guards and newspaper kiosks were piled in heaps and the front of the Moulin Rouge wrecked, though the maddened crowd was prevented from entering the windows, lhe fronts of famous resorts adjoining were also Continuing their frenzied progress, the rioters jeered at and attacked American tourists.—(A. and N.Z.) WOMEN & CHILDREN TRAMPLED ON. COMMUNISTS BLAME THE POLICE. (Received 25, 12.40 p.m.) Paris, Aug. 24. Women and children ran screaming for shelter and many were trampled down. There was revolver firing in many parts of the city and the police eventually gained the upper hand aided considerably by heavy rain. There were 201 arrests. The Communists blame the police, declaring that if they had not intervened everything would have passed off quietly. The authorities say that disreputable cosmopolitan as well as distinct French Communists seized the opportunity for looting. The police had distinct orders to disperse gatherings. The Chief of Police announced that he was prepared to take the strongest measures to maintain order Communist newspapers boast that the workers were masters of the streets.—(A. and N.Z.) [Earlier messages in connection with the Paris riotings appear on page 6.] MAYOR OF NEW YORK THREATENED. (Received 24, 10.40 a.m.) Berlin, Aug. 24. En route to Berlin, Mayor Walker, of New York, was given translations of . threats, radical newspapers warning him to avoid the city on account of Sacco-Vanzetti feeling, Though he jauntily told the British pres-, he was determined to remain three days studying housing and other conditions in spite of bomb threats, he took the Embassy’s advice and left the train at an outlying station

Later demonstrators hissed Mr. Walker as he entered the City Hall. He replied to hisses with “Hallo! boys.”— (A. and N.Z.)