THE EXECUTIUNS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10622, 25 August 1927, Page 5

THE EXECUTIUNS

AMERICAN DEMONSTRATORS POLICE BREAK UP MOB. Electric Telegraph —Frees Association NEW YORK, August 23. Twelve thousand gathered in Union Square at midnight where placards " Sacco murdered” were posted up by a Socialist paper. The crowd dispersed quietly without police intervention. At Boston, mounted police charged a mph of three hundred about to stand with bared heads on Bunker Hill as a tribute to Sacco. A thousand motor car horns sounded at ‘the time of execution. At Cleveland the Franciscan monastry was bombed shortly after the execution. In San Francisco a clever police coup turned the head of a Sacco parade into patrol waggons. Some 150 were arrested and will be charged with unlawful assembly. At Detroit, mounted police broke up a mob of several thousand attempting to march on the City Hall. The police knocked the banners to the ground. The ci ovd quietly dispersed. ANGRY PARIS MOB. PARIS, August 24. Serious riots have broken out. A mob of from fifteen to twenty thousand endeavoured to collect in the centre of the city. Mounted police charged and many people were injured. The mob then seized and threw about cafe chairs and tables, shrieking: “Down with Governor Fuller,” “Down with the murderers.” Five hundred Communists prepared to lynch someone at the American Embassy, came down the Faubourg Montmartre, and broke through the police till reinforcements of the Republican Guard broke them up, only to find that they rallied again. Tlie latest news states that thousands of Communists are pouring into the streets from alleys, yelling and firing revolvers, while terrified shopkeepeis are hastily putting their shutters up. In view of the Communists’ boast that they would put fifty thousand men in the Boulevard tonight, troops and motor lorries have been prepared and a garrison is awaiting orders from the pirefect of police. Sacco rioters attacked cabarets frequented by Americans and smashed lamps and windows. MM. Cachin, Doriot, and Marty, at present detained at Sante Prison, have written to the president of the Chamber intimating their intention to interpellate the Government regarding the holding of festivities on the occasion ot the American Legion’s visit. adding that the popular feeling aroused by the execution of the unfortunate and innocent workmen Sacco and Vanzetti is so profound that such a festivity at a time of mourning would rightly !>e considered a challenge by the workers throughout the 1 country. “La Humanite” says that federations controlling, food supplies, transport, and amusements should enforce an intensive boycott ot Yankee capitalism.

WOMEN INJURE© AT HYDE PARK. LONDON. August 23. One 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 made. DISORDERS IN ARGENTINE. BUENOS AYRES, August 23. The police dispersed a mob alter it had broken the windows of trolley cars. SOCIA LIST R EPUDIATION. GENEVA, August 23. Socialist members of tlie State Council dissociated themselves from tlie disorders. A battalion of firemen liad been placed at the disposal of the police. The Federal Council lias formally written a letter of regret to the League Secretariat. Further details of the night’s rioting show one death and dozens injured, including eight policemen. Sixteen arrests have been made. The trouble liegan after a meeting addressed by Americans and Communists. SYI>NEY SYMPATHISER S. SYDNEY, August 24. When employees of the city railway construction branch who participated in the Sa-cco-Vanzetti demonstration yesterday presented themselves at work to-day they were told their services were not required. Over two thousand men were dismissed, bringing to a complete standstill the construction of the underground railway. A deputation of men later waited on the Chief Railway Commissioner who informed them they could only be re-engaged through the Government Labour Bureau. This the deputation refused, and they interviewed the Minister of Railways, who promised to. intervene, and to endeavour to effect a settlement.