AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

[Australian it N.Z. Cablo Association.] DEATH SENTENCES. NEW YORK. April 9. At Dedham, in Massachusetts, Nikola Sacco and Bartolomeo Yanzetti have been sentenced to death bv electrocution for the murder of a paymaster and a payroll guard during a robbery that was committed in 192(1. Sentence on these men has been again delayed for six years by legal battles, during which time the ease has attracted unprecedented attention in y many parts of the world. £ 'Jhe prisoners are l>oth radicals. They received contributions to their defence fund from friends and sympathisers in all parts of the world, while anarchists in many places have bombed American legations and consular quarters as protests against the men's convictions.

Police guards have now been placed around the American Embassies in Argentina. Paris and elsewhere, in anticipation of violence following on tho death sentence. Judge Thayer who tried the ease and who sentenced the accused, has been a marked man and under police protection for the past live years. ITS.A. POLICY WASHINGTON. April 9. It is stated here that the French Foreign Office, if correctly reported in press despatches from Paris, was premature in announcing t luit France, Rritain, Japan and the United States had instructed their Ministers to present it joint Note of protest against the mis-treatmont of their nationals in China. The State Department is still considering whether to go ahead with its. original plan making its representations independently .or to join in with the other forces. It is understood that tho State Department is debating tho relativo weight of what advantage is to he gained in making it evident to the Chinese that, in relation to compelling satisfaction for such outrages as that at Nanking, all the countries are united on the one hand, and on the other the danger of provoking criticism in this country for entering into entangling alliances with Eurone.