MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1921, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS

BANDITS OF BROADWAY. VANCOUVER, Dec. 18. A message from New York states that the crime wave occupies much attention in the newspapers. To-day, while the New York police were, endeavouring to organise against crime, a number of thugs held up two down-town jewellery stores, and stole articles valued at £4OOO. One newspaper factiously .suggests that if Jesse James ciime to life he would be outclassed by the present bandits. 'The fact is,”, says the newspaper, "New York is wilder .and woolior than anything in the movies or the literature of the frontier camps of Mexico or Klondike. The clerics of fashionable Fifth Avenue shops seem to be in as great peril as the driver of a mule train carrying gold in. the Australian wilds.”

•The “Evening World” devotes an entile front page to the crime news, including an account of the two policemen killed in a gun battle on Broadway. SINISTER PROPAGANDA. LONDON. Dee. 7. “That, constant and insidious attempts to undermine the loyalty of army are licing made by members of the republican and revolutionary organisations in Britain,” was admitted by Sir Archibald Williamson, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the War Office, in the House of Commons t.lii.s afternoon. Replying to Colonel Newman. Sir Archibald Williamson said that tlv military authorities were carefully watching these attempts, aiid, if necessary, steps would bo taken, but it would not be in the public interest O' give details. ASLEEP WITH A SNAKE. BATHURST. Dee 24. Mrs Willotl, of Engliuton, a few miles from Bathurst, placed her infant son in a cradle on tbo front verandah of the house. The child fell asleep, ami was unattended to for .some time. On going to the cradle the mother was horrified to find a large venomous snake coiled and sleeping on the covering over the child, who was hurriedly snatched away before the snake could do any lump, The snpko was shot.

ANZAC GRAVES. LONDON, Dee. 24. Uncertainty still exists regarding the possibility of tbo relatives of Australians visiting Gallpoli before the autumn owing to the complete absence of hostels, The question of their erection has been vigorously taken up by Mrs Doughty Wyllie, widow of the Victoria Cross winner,' who is buried on Gallipoli. She is negotiating with tho Y.M.C.A. to secure the erection of hostels forthwith. She hopes they will he ready by Anzac Day, hut this is doubtful. , > Members of the Australian Graves Staff who have returned from Gallipoli state that the road from, Chanak towards Anzac has’ teen 'completed. There is also a proposition for a permanent concrete landing stage enabling direct debarkations at Anzac Cove, but only bridle patJis are cohstrijotiblo toyards most of the cemeteries', including Lone Pine, Shrapnel Valley, Plugge’s Plateau, and Brown’s Dip.

The brigandage which was prevalent last year has entirely ceased, and the gravesinen ho longer require machine guns and other arms.