AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

iUSflt- MAN AND N.Z- I'Alll.X ASKOtll.i t lON £SOOO REWARD. ,lteLcived this day at 9.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dee. l’2. A reward of £si,.io sterling is oilered for Il.c capture ol Otto Star, li.e leader of a gang of desperadoes. On b relay the gang raided I lie small tow n of \ alley V iew, 51) miles north of bolt Worth. They arrived bet ore daylight in three motor ears, bound the town's single policeman, blew open the sales ol the two banks and then started a lire which destroyed nine buildings. I lie citizens helplessly watched I lie gang depart, shuttling and firing a lusilade as they traversed the sticots with the Ixjoty Wurth £IO,OOO. The 10-s caused bv the file is estimated at £.')(>,()()!).

I! AII,WAV (.'All KATA MTV. NKW V()15 K. Dec. 21. A crowded railway car 101 l into the river at C'hippawa balls. Seven were killed. Of fourteen others rescued from the water three were so badly frozen that they succumbed. The temperature at the time of the accident was do below zero. '()!! DEATHS. NKW VOlt K. Dec. 21. The I lion correspondent of the “Times” says th ('Soviet 'I riumvirato has commenced a new and bitter rampaion against .M. Trotsky, with the object of deprivin'' him permanently ol all real power. Trotsky was recently ollicially declared ill and ordered to seek a warmer climate, but is apparently still in .Moscow. The Triumvirate, who so far, have only attacked Trotsky’s political activities, ' now assailing his reputation as an organiser, and the leader ol the lied Army. A special pamphlet has been issued in which it is stated that Trotsky's military merits are a mere myth and that he has continually caused imiioi ossa ry friction. Trotsky is wholly unable to retort to these new attacks since the Soviet press has been attain ordered to boycott him.