NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1925, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL

K.K.K. DISORDER. NEW YORK. Aug. 22. Troops from four barracks have quelled another K u Klux Klan disorder. Klansmen were attacked by a inch, which threw rocks, bottles, and tear bombs. Bloodshed would have resulted hut for the l roinot intervention of the police. Though many shots were tired no one was injured except those who suffered from tear gas. The meeting uas held at Reading, in Massachusetts, a mill town populated chiefly by foreign Catholic workers from Southern Europe. Immediately after the first bombs were thrown tlie local police separated the fighters, lining Klansmen on one sill- of Hie road and their opponents on the other. They held them there until mounted troops from the barracks arrived and dis(H'rsed the crowds, Last week a Klan riot at Framingham resulted in 2(1 men being wounded and injured. As a result 7o K.K.K. members were arrested.

Earlier in the year a Klan meeting was broken up at Niles. Ohio, and hundreds lighting in the streets, with sticks and stones had to he driven off by the armed police. An attack of a Klan meeting at Lilly. Pennsylvania, resulted in a revolver battle. Many were wounded and several oponenls ol the Fiery Cross killed. Police also settled this affair and arrested 18 Klansmen. All meetings of the organisation are held at night in the open, and ihe Fiery Cross high in the -ki i- a guide to all eager for light.

MAKING IT PAY, XKW YORK. Aug. 21. American snobd hud- and dancing men gain hv the navy'- 10-s under the Washington disarmament treaty. The battleship Illinois, scrapped under the treaty, is to he rented out for social functions at £h"> a day. Ihe decks design'd for the heavy tread of naval hoots u ill palpitate to the heat of dancing feet. The messhall-. nhich oire echoed to strong naval language, will resound with business, talk and I lie applause of merrv crowds. It is expected that parties, business meetings and i oiiveutions uill he held mi the old warship. Blit will (lie lessees he permitted 111 lake her out levond the 12-mile limit. " here prohibition dwelleth not?

CAT E\ KOI TIO.XK. LONDON. July 29. Dm iii" the past 12! veals 197.129 cals and 91.21 s dog- have beep pain-|e-s!v put lu death at the headquarters of Die Animal Re-eue League in Citylead. 1-lingtMi. K. 0.. and the tale is now about I ..itn per week. The cxei-ut iolier-in-■chief. as she huinoroii.-lv describes her-cll. is an elderly uotunn. Miss Clegg, who as the manageress, superintends the destruction of the animal- a- they ale brought to her from all parts of London by six lieutenants, all women over 7)0 years of age. nho -ennr ih'fniej districts evi-rv day for unwanted cats and dogs. The animals ale killed hv electrocution. death being instant. I lie eats are laid in the drawer of ;m apparatus ri'-embl i tig a table, with only the fatal -V. itch mi 100 ; and tin: dogs. I oImi-. rei-eiving the current, are lilted uilh a collar eonueeteil with a swivel, through uhieh the i urrent passes. The dead bodes are removed daily jo a iTenuitorium managed by the Royal Society for the Prevent ion of Cruelly to Animals.