AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1920, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyngtit.. RAIDS ON SOCIALISTS. NEW YORK, Jan. 2. The United States Attorney General, Mr Palmer, announced that the Government raids on people advocating radical political views have been carried out in thirty-five cities. Hundreds of members of the party have been arrested. It is expected, he says, the total will reach a thousand.

A Chicago message states that more than two hundred radicals have been arrested there. There are charges alleged against them of disseminating Bolshevik literature, and of planning to overthrow the present system of Government. ' LATER, It is reported that 500 communists have been arrested in New York, 300 m Detroit, and 400 in Philadelphia. It is now estimated that the total of arrests will be two thousand. Reports coming in from many other cities show the Department of Justice is making a systematic attempt to thorouglilv free the country from all radicals, and especially of members of the Communist Party which recently issued a manifesto advocating the overthrow of present system of American Government , It is estimated that the Government will begin deportation proceedings against many of those arrested. , Large quantites of the radicals literature has also been seized.

ADMIRAL JELLICOE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 2. Adfniral Jellicoe' visited the stock exchange where he had a vocifeious welcome. Lady Jellicoe has recovered from her recent illness and has left Ottawa to join her husband. REPUBLICAN ATTITUDE. WASHINGTON, January 2.

Senator Borah’s letter to the Republican candidates says that 1 )o\\ erfui American and European interests are seeking to induce United States to abandon the traditional foreign policy and to allow itself to be drawn into European affairs by secret tacit agreements. United States operations in Russia are a, direct violation of the constitution and against the wishes of the people,

A SHERIFF’S ACTION, (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) WASHINGTON, January 3. A Chicago message states t]iat Sheriff Peters was convinced that the spectacle of seeing a map lijipged would have a deterent effect on other criminals. He made arrangements for two hundred inmates of a local gaol to witness, through their cell windows the execution of Rafflo Burrage convicted of murder. When Burrage stood on the scaffold prior to the drop, every convict witness roared “When do we eat.” They maintained the uproar until the condemned man disappeared. The sheriff answering critics, asserted that the experiment sought to bring the fear of punishment before the minds of the men who were over coddjed by wellmoaning philanthropists.