WAIL STREET SENSATION

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1920, Page 2

WAIL STREET SENSATION

fAUSTRALIAN & N.Z GABLE ASSOCIATIONJ

NEW YORK, September 17.

.Fischer is an ex-employee of the French Commissioner’s office here. He sent to Toronto., warnings to members of the Commissioner’s staff and to a New York broker stating that Wall Street would be blown up on tne 13th. A day before the explosion; m front of the Morgan Officers Club, a caretaker reports that personally warned him that ap attempt wpuld made to blow' UP Mprgaj} building. Fisghpr is regarded a§ bging mentally unbalanced apd a victjni ijf ff jnajiia for Bolshevigm. ' OTTAWA, September 1?.

A message from Hamilton, Onfariq, says that Edwin Fischer, has been committed to an insane asylum upon an application by his relatives. , •< NEW YORK. September 17.

Private individuals have offered ten thousand dollars more as a reward for evidence leading to the arrest of those responsible for the Wall Street sion. The failure of anyone to claim the ownership of the horse and lorry whjch were blown up in the explosion further strengthens the belief qf tbs authorities that the explpsion w§s thq result of a plot. Thq dead now total 3fl, the ipjurgd number 300 of whom many 4-fg ’-k----pected to die. The authorities are convinced that hp explosion waq the rtesujt of pM concocted either by Germans or Anarchists.

The Board qf Aldermen have offered a reward of ton thousand dollars hr the arrest of those responsible fop the property damage, which I s conserva= tively estimated at two and a half million dollars. Business in Wall Street was resumed to-day as normally. The Federal authorities now believe that the same Anarchist group which' perpetrated the bomb outrage in June, 1919, caused the Wall Street explosion Identical literature with that which was disclosed in the scenes of, last years occurrence has been in the mail boxes not far from the Wall Street disaster.

A VISITOR’S VIEWSLONDON, September I§. Mr Squires, L ‘Prime Minster of Newfoundland, who is visiting London, m an interview stated he was disappointed at the holding of an Imperial Copferpnc e Canada. He preferred Lons>i). Hp had not heard qf the reported Canadian Government’s proposal to postpone the Conference until 1922 rso a$ tq enable the Dominion Parliaments to discuss in; ter-Imperial (; onstituti&qal propqsals l>e r fore submission to the Conference. He preferred the Prime Minister should meet to formulate proposals before fhgjr §ubpii§sioTi to thp parliaiuepts.