AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1920, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN A N. 7.. CABI.K ISROOIATIONI

A BIG OPERATION-. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 11. The bankers and farmers industrial conference at Chicago voted a definite organisation of a billion dollars in support of foreign credit, the corporation to operate under the Federal Reserve laws. The Corporations authorised capital will start at one hundred million dollars, but the capital' is expanding. JEALOUS JAPS. ' (Received This Day at 8.a.m.) NEW YORK, December 11.' It is reported in diplomatic circles that Chili and Japan are verging on an incident of considerable gravity, following upon a formal protest from Japan, because she was not invited to attend the Magellen Straits celebration. The protest stated because of Japans importance in the Pacific she feels keenly slighted, especially as two other naval powers, Britain and United States have lieen invited to commemorate the discovery of the Straits. A TRIPLE LYNCHING. A SENSATIONAL AFFAIR. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dee. 10.

A sensational triple lynching occurred at Santa Rosa ,a suburb of San Francisco. During recent weeks San Francisco has been roused over the operations of a gang of ex-pugilists who kidnapped girls and took them to a lonely house where they were terribly maltreated. The police broke up the gang, after twenty girls were assaulted. Subsequently they traced the gang to Santa Rosa and a pitched battle with revolvers followed ,in which three San Francisco detectives were shot dead, before ’the men were captured and lodged in Santa, Rosa prison. On Sunday last (Yesterday morning), a posse of fifty masked men visited the jail, removed three prisoners, Boyd, Fitts and 1 arento and hanged them on a single branch of a tree. Five companions of the lynch ed meh arrested with them, were removed in custody to San Francisco and police were placed in charge. State officials and police are investigatin'' statements that policemen, friends of the murdered officers participated in the lynching. There was no indications that it was arranged. No resistance was made by the jail officials at Santa Rosa when the lynchers arrived, motor ears conveying them. They received an ovation on returning from their mission of vengeance. The belief is that that the dead policemen’s friends took this method of dealing the severest warning to members of the San Francisco underworld.