BRITISH & FOREIGN

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 11 April 1927, Page 6

BRITISH & FOREIGN

OVERNIGHT NEWS SUMMARY (Per Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, April 9. Another Woolwich arsenal fire is reported. The gates were padloclvd 'mmediately the fire brigade entered. The authorities refuse information, but it is understood the fire started in some grass bordering the roadway. LONDON, April 9. Countess Dejanze, who shot de Trafford, and then attempted to commit suicide, examined by the magistrate, said she met de Trafford on a lion hunt in Kenya. Close friendship followed. He promised to marry her, and urged her to divorce her husband, but on arrival at Paris from London, de Trafford said that the marriage was impossible, because his family was opposed to it. She was broken hearted, and went ’<> the Gard du Nord to see hiin return to London, intending to commit suicide, as he departed, but suddenly, at the last moment, she bad an impulse to take him with her in death. Her real intention was to kill herself. NEW YORK, April !)th. At Dedham (Massachusetts) Nikola Sacko and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were sentenced to death by electrocution, for the murder of a paymaster and the payroll guard, during a robbery committed in 1920. Sentence has been delayed for six years by legal battles, during which time the case attracted unprecedented attention in many parts of the world. The prisoners, who are both Radicals, received contributions to t'.e defence fund from friends and sympathisers in all parts of the world, while anarchists in many places, bombed legislature and consular quarters, as protests against the convictions. Police guards have now been placed around the American Embassies in Argentina, Paris and elsewhere, in anticipation of violence following the sentence. Judge Thayer, who tried the case, and sentenced accused, has been a marked man, and has been under police protection for the past five years.