AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1925, Page 3

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AUBTIUIIAN AND N.Z. PAItLS) ASSOCIATION HOPES Oi' oßft AT DISCOVERIES. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) VANCOUVER, April 2.1. A message I rout Cuyaha, Brazil, states that .Mr Fawcett and his party have started their journey into the unexplored jungle. .Mr Fawcett says iiis hopes of making great, discoveries have keen raised by recent incidents. An Indian of the forest who was recently taken to C'uyaba and shown the local churches said : “This is in my forests are buildings lugger and loftier hy far than this. They have doors of stone and the inside is lit hy a great square crystal on a pillar. The crystal shines so bright it dazzles the eyes.” This tale reflects the Indian legend of the light that never goes out and supports the theory that the ancient South Americans had a system ol artificial lighting hy means of rays possibly unknown to modern science.

Other Indians told of buildings which were tower-like, but partly fallen, from the doors and windows of which always shines a light. This building lies on our route within a few days journey of here. “Me found,” says .Mr Fawcett, “ numerous stones bearing inscriptions. The pictures were obviously made with metal tools and their resemblance to acient Egyptian hieroglyphs is striking.”

AN AMAZING ROBBERY FRUSTRATED. (Received this dav at 12 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 28. Henry Ferncckcs. the bandit and four times a murderer, has confessed at Chicago that he had planned lor this week ?ho most spectacular robbery Chicago would have ever known, taking two million dollars cash from the famous Coop Bunk with the possible loss of one hundred lives. Ferncckcs was optured on Saturday in his lib tv pouring over a chemistry text hook. He said that there were ten in the plot and all were perfectly drilled and armed with sawn off shot guns and rifles. Acting upon the confession the police seized three tanks of ammonia, a dozen gas masks, smoke bombs designed to cut off pursuit after the robbery. The bandits planned to gas the clerks and customers to instant submission or death, while they themselves, protected by their masks, would loot the vaults and would cover their escape with black smoke which would almost turn day into night. Ferncckcs had gathered round him the most efficient gun lighters in existence.