AMERICAN EXECUTIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20190, 30 August 1927, Page 9

AMERICAN EXECUTIONS

MEETING IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE. AMERICAN FLAG TORN UP. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, August 28. Ten thousand orderly Communist and Labour demonstrators, grouped round crape draped banners assembled in Trafalgar square as a protest against the Sacco-Vanzetti executions. A man mounted tho plinth of the monument and unrolled an American flag, and was about to pour petrol on it preparatory to setting it on fire, when officials of the International Class War Prisoners' Aid Society remonstrated. He climbed down, but afterwards the flag was torn to shreds by bystanders. Mr A. J. Cook (miners’ secretary) seconded a resolution viewing the executions with horror. He also urged his hearers to turn indignantly against Mr Baldwin. —A. and N.Z. and Sydney Sun Cable. OUTRAGE IN SOUTHERN FRAIsCE. BOMB NEAR DANCE HALL. TWO PEOPLE KILLED. LONDON, August 28. The Cannes correspondent of The Times says that a powerful bomb, fired by a fuse, on the top of the wall of the Neptune Dance Hall of the American Bar at Juan Les Pins, exploded and injured people, two of them fatally.—The Times. THE BODIES CREMATED. LINE OF MARCH ORDERLY. NEW YORK, August 28. (Received August 29, at 7 p.m.) A Boston message states that 100,000 persons watched the cortege bearing the bodies of Sacco and Vanzetti walk through the drizzle to Forest Hills crematorium, where’ a eulogy was delivered. The line of march was orderly, though occasionally it was broken by mounted police, but quickly formed again by the mourners. The ashes, after cremation of the bodies, are to be given to Mrs Sa,cco and Miss Vanzetti.—A. and N.Z. Cable.