AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1925, Page 1

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Reuter Telegrams.] A ATE RICAN CRIME, NEW YORK. Nov. 21. Estimates that American Insurance Companies annually pay out four thousand million dollars as the result of crimes throughout the country and that the Nations crime bill amounts to sixteen thousand million yearly appears borne out by an amazing daily record of hold-ups, robberies, burglaries etc. The past fortnight has been especially prolific in ibis field of crime. The tluMt in Xew York of one hundred thousand dollars from a shop capping fourteen days of unusual depreciation. The fortnight's catalogue includes the following outstanding instances, but does not include the thousands of serious offences in which large sums have been taken, but not sufficiently large to be reported in public print. Fifty-two thousand dollars were stolen front a woman, one hundred thousand dollar liberty bonds taken from a business man’s home, Pasadena (California) ; forty thousand pay roll robbery at Long Island; a eiiy safe blown open at. Brooklyn and the robbers escaped with ten thousand dollars; five bandits held up a jewellery manufacturing establishment, Neward. New Jersey, escaped with fifty thousand dollars worth of jewels and burning two girls with arid during the process; bandits held up a hank at Detroit and escaped with (on thousand dollars: burglars took twelve thousand dollars worth of jewellery from a private home in New York; six bandits escaped with twelve thousand dollars pay roll at Paterson, New Jersey, and 20 thousand pay roll at Providence. Rhode Island; ten thousand dollar bank robbery at Dayton, in which six bandits escaped with a motor lorry containing thirty thousand dollars worth of silk iu broad daylight in New York City by kidnapping the driver. Various organisations throughout. the country are holding _ meetings to study the prevention of crime. I'.xseeretary of State. Hughes participating in a meeting of one group in New York society for prevention of crime, offered tv prize of two thousand live hundred dollars for the best, plan to reduce crime in America.

ROI'AIAXIA AND U.S.A. NEAY YORK. November 21. Declining to accept Hie first formal ,||Vr for the funding of Roumanta’s lebt. the United States Debt Commission on Saturday suhniiltted a counter proposal on substantially the same terms as the British settlement, with a modification to meet Routnania’s peculiar needs. Houmania has promised to reply on I'uesday.

A TIDAL WAVE. AIEXTCO CITY. November 20. No direct communication from Ziliuatanejos (which a previous message reported to have been submerged by a tidal wave) lias been received since late on Friday, but reports from nearby towns say that the little port was submerged for two hours following on a tidal wave 35ft high. Tt is believed that the wave was caused by a volcanic disturbance somewhere in the Pacific. No estimate of the deaths is available. Ml SUING STEAMER TURNS UP. NEAY YORK. November 20. News from Havana states that the Haitian steamer “ A ilia Dos Caves, which was reported as sunk with 200 labourers on board has Iveon lound. The passengers and crew were suffering from lack of food and water, but there had been no casualties. The engine was disabled. The vessel was located 75 miles west of Santiago de Cuba.