RIOTING

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 215, 25 August 1927, Page 6

RIOTING

THE SACCO-VANZETTI SYMPATHISERS SERIOUS OUTBREAK IN PARIS COMMUNISTS’ THREATS. Paris, Aug. 24. A serious riot has broken out. A mob of 15,000 to 20,00 endeavoured to collect in the centre of the city. Mounted police charged and many people were injured- the mob then seized and threw cafe chairs and tables, shrieking, “Down with Governor Fuller!” “Down with the murderersl” Five hundred Communists, prepared to lynch someone at the American Embassy, came down the Faubourg, Montmartre, and broke through the police until renilorcements of the Republican Guard broke them up, only to find that they rallied again. The latest news states that thousands of Communists are pouring into the streets from alleys, while terrified shopkeepers are hastily putting their shutters up.

in view of the Communists’ boast that they would put 50,DU0 men into the boulevards to-night, troops and motor lorries are prepared and the garrison is awaiting order troin the Prefect of Police.

Last night’s pillage and vandalism are reported to include the demonstrators spitting on the unknown soldiers’ tomb, on which American eye-witnesses afterwads placed flowers.

The police state that the riot was the work oi mischievous foreign elements organising disorders for their own profits.

The newspapers are almost unammours in declaring the executions to be a miscarriage of justice, one cartooning the Status of Liberty holding up an electric chair, but they deprecate the futile measures of the sympathisers, urging that the rabble should be put down.—(A. and N.Z.) DEMONSTRATIONS IN U.S.A. MOBS BROKEN UP BY POLICE New York, Aug. 23. Twelve thousand gathered in Union Square at midnight, where placards, “bacco Murdered!” were posted up by a Socialistic paper. The crowd dispersed quietly without police interference.

Reports throughout the country indicated that there was little response to the call for strikes. At boston mounted police charged a mob of 300 about to stand with bared heads on Bunker Hill as a tribute to Sacco and Vanzetti. A thousand motor car horns sounded at the time of the execution. At Cleveland a Franciscan monastery was bombed shortly after the execution. In San Francisco a clever police coup turned the head of a Sacco parade into patrol waggons, and 150 were arrested. These will be charged with unlaful assembly. At Detroit mounted police broke up a mob of several thousands attempting to march on the City Hall. The police knocked banners to the ground and the crowd quietly dispersed. ANTI-AMERICAN FEELING AT GENEVA. Geneva, Aug. 23. The Sacco rioters did £4OOO damage, including £5OO to the League’s glass hall library. The police arrested io, mostly young foreigners. The Swiss Government has apologised to the League for the attack. The continuance of tierce antiAmerican feeling resulted in the hurried summons to Geneva of the State Council, which communicated to the Federal Council, with the result that an infantry regiment was detailed for the protection of League and other public buildings. The Socialist members of the State Council dissociated themselves from the disorders. A battalion of firemen was placed at the disposal of the police. The Federal Council has formally written a letter of regret to the League secretariat.

Further details of the night’s rioting show that there was one death and dozens were injured, including eight policemen. Sixteen arrests were made- The trouble began after, a meeting addressed by Anarchists and Communists.—(A. and N.Z.) TROUBLE IN SYDNEY. WORKERS DISMISSED. Sydney, Aug. 24. When the employees of the city railway construction branch, who participated, in the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration yesterday, presented themselves at work to-day they were told their services were not required. Over 2000 men were dismissed, bringing to a complete standstill the construction of the underground railway. A deputation of men later waled on the Chief Railway Commissioner, who informed them they could only be re-engaged through the Government Labour Bureau. This the deputation refused and then inter viewed the Minister of Railways, who promised to intervene and endeavour to effect a settlement.

When "00 workmen employed at the Sydney Council’s power house who also participated in yesterday’s procession, attempted to start work to-day they found the gates locked and n notice posted up intimating that they must interview the engineer in charge before they would be allowed to resume. The men marched in a body to the Trades Hall, refusing to resume on these terms, but at a later meeting decided to present themselves ready to commence tomorrow morning-

A cable from Copenhagen states that 11 were arrested there following oh a demonstration. At Buenos Ayres the police dispersed a mob after the windows of trolley cars had been broken. A hundred police made a baton charge in Hyde Park into a Sacco demonstration and scattered the crowd in all directions. Three women were injured and eight arrests were made.