AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 December 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

ICBTIULIAN AND N.Z. CARLE AHSOOIATION CANADA’S VIEW. OTTAWA, December 2L While no official comment is forthcoming regarding the proposed conference of Prime Ministers, the fact that th Dominion Parliament will he in full session during March makes the sag gesled time for the Conference in Lon don an inconvenient one for Canada. bvxk robbers caught. OTTAWA, Dee. 20. Six men drove a motor ear to the front of a bank in the mining town of Nanaimo Collieries, on pay day. While two of them guarded the entrance, four others eolleiteil eight thousand sterling. and escaped across the American border. During the robbery .the manager was imprisoned in the vault, the leader of the robbers threatening him with characteristically strong language. A sample of the language was ciimiiitniieated to Detective Tenant, of Seattle, who remarked: ”1 know who that is. lie is llms Watson, a former Seattle policeman.” Later Watson and three other men were arrested and identified hv hank officials. Part of the booty has been recovered. XMAS HOLD-UPS. NEW YORK. December 20.

There was a hold Christmas ho'd-in. when a. single robber calmly walked into the State Bank at New Orleans «lien the doors were opened at nine o’clock yesterday. He took a shortened shot gun from under his coat, and then locked four clerks in the vault, and lie took away three t hoi'.xand pounds Eortiuna tely the. vault, was equipped with a device pcriiiiilting it tn be opened from inside The employees freed themselves anil when the robber reached the sidewalk. they shouted for help. A policeman came running up. but the rubber wounded him with buck shot. He then I'ommandeil a passing automobile. and. compelling the driver to speed with him. escaped.