BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) SOUTH AFRICAN PROTESTS. (.Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) CAPETOWN. Au-i. 24. Saoeo-Vanzetti protest meetings were hold throughout South Alricn. Tn .Jolianiiesbmgli the American Hag ' va * hiirncd nu the Town Hall steps to tlic .strains of the “ Red Flap:.” and a boycott of American poods was advocated. [ American Consuls in the various centres were guarded by the police, hut no clashes occurred. Memorial' services will ho held on Sunday. FRENCH RIOTS. PAR,IS. A up. 24. ■Women arid children ran screaminp for shelter. Manv were trampled down and there was revolver firinp in many parts of the city. The police eventually pained the upper hand aided considerably by heavy rain. There were 211 arrests. Communists blame the police declarinp if they bad not intervened everything would have passed off quietly. Ihe nutlioi itios say disreputable cosmopolitan, as well as distinct French Communists seized the opportunity for lootinp. Ihe police bad distinct orders to disperse patheriups. The chief of police announced lie was prepared to take the stronpest measures to maintain order. A Communist newspaper Hoists the workers were masters ot the streets. FRENZIED KfOTINH. (Received this dav at 11.0 a.m.) PARIS. A tip. 24. When Paris took stock of the frenzied riotiop which was not quelled till ] on cr ‘ifter juidniKht. it found a thousand injured, including 124 policemen. I Property damaged is estimated .at £IIO,OOO. The majority of injuries are only slight, though various reports say several policemen arc in a- critical condition as a result of knife wounds. At Montmartre, which was singled out for special violence, the mob without interruption smashed shops and hurled the contents into the streets, because only limited police were available. They tore up decorative street trees which they used as weapons. Motor cars waiting at Moulin Rouge were stripped of the contents. The tyres were slashed anil the vehicles then overturned to make barricades. Tree guards ami newspaper kiosks were oiled in liea-ps in front of Moulin Rouge's wreckage. Though the maddened crowd were prevented from entering windows, the fronts of famous -resorts adjoining were also smashed. Continuing their frenzied progress the rioters jeered and attacked American tourists. NEW YORK’S MAYOR HISSED. BERLIN, Aug. 24. En route from Berlin, Mayor Walker of Now York, was given u translation of threats from radical newspapers, warning him. to avoid the city in consequence of the Sacco-Vanzetti fooling. Though- ho jauntly told tho British press he was determined to remain three days and study housing and other conditions in spite of bomb threats, he took tho Embassy’s advice and left the train at an outlying station. Later demonstrators hissed Walker a.s ho entered the City Hall. He .replied to the hisses with “Hallo hoys!’’

TWO VIEWS. RIGA, Aus. 24. Customs officials and traders, cabled oil 22nd., wore shot. In contrast to the Soviet Government's attitude in this case, meetings are passing the fiercest resolutions to take full vengeance for Sacco and Vanzetti.

A PRESENTATION. PARIS, Aug. 24. l'n recognition of tbo British municipalities gift to M. Poincare in 1910. containing addresses of gratitude and of sympathy with France, a French committee proposes to present Sir A. Chamberlain with a volume containing prefaces by M. Poincare and M. Briand, illustrations by French masters. comments on Anglo-French amity by President Doumergue and M. Clementeau, tributes to the British Army by Generals Focli, Joffro and Retain, and also an epitome of' France’s glories.

FIRE IN SCUTARI. LONDON. Aug. 24. The “Times” Constantinople correspondent says four hundred houses were destroyed and two thousand people are homeless as the result of a fire in Scutari. A BISHOP'S PB.OPOSAL. LONDON, Aug. 24. The Bishop of Saint Albans Proposes as a tremendous test, of Christianity that business men seated in morning trains to the city .shall smile at strangers entering a compartment. Ho declares God meant man to be happy. EXPORTED RUSSIANS. LONDON. Aug. 24. The “Standard” says Wan Klioniavko and Deltin, the departing Busman oil directors asserted they had devoted themselves exclusively while in Britain to administering business, without participating in political activity'. a proof of which was the Home Office’s continual renewal of their vesas for a period of years. The Home Office’s present action has reduced six directors to four bin cloning them to the task of administration, thereby not assisting in tbe development of Anglo-Russian business associations. SENTENCES SUSPENDED. RIGA, Aug. 24. Sentences on Annenkov and Denmsov, cabled on 12th August, have been suspended.