AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1928, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Australian Press Assn.—United Servioe DIAMOND ROBBERY. TWO GUNMEN SHOT DEAD. VANCOUVER., Aug. 30. At .. Los Angeles, Wallace Bonnell, aged 28, a ’professional gunman, anil Max Boltezer, aged' 18, the latter just being broken into the “hod-up” game, stepped into a metropolitan diamond shop while the proprietors were dressing the windows with precious gems. Bunnell covered them with guns while Max swept diamonds worth £2OOO into a sack and stepped outside. There lie ran face to face with two policemen who had watched the incident from tlie opposite side of the street. Bonnell tried to fight his way to freedom. Guns flashed while one hundred shoppers dodged into doorways to escape the flying bullets. When the smoke cleared, both of tlie bandits were dead, while nobody else was hurt and tlie diamonds were returned to the owners within six minutes of the robbery.

CABLES v. RADIO. MONTREAL, Aug. 31. It is understood that there is a likelihood of the Canadian Marconi Company entering tlie British communication merger between the Eastern Cable Company and the Marconi Company shortly. It is understood that there will be a meeting in Ottawa next week, between tlie ex-Premier of Great Britain, Mr Ramsay MacDonald, Sir Campbell Stuart, and the officials of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Coys to discuss the whole future of the merger. It is presumed that an effort will he made to explain to Mr MacDonald tlie position of the Canad- ' ian. Government in order to insure the withdrawal of the Labour Party’s opposition in the communications merger. The officials of tlie Canadian Marconi Company bore refuse to comment on tho matter. SHIPPING COLLISION. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) PORTLAND (Oregon), Sept. 3. Tlie Floridan, from Boston for Seattle, was sunk on Saturday night after a collision with the Admiral Fiskc, ox Puget Sound, for Los Angeles, 05 miles south of Tattoos Light. The' Fiske rescued a crew of forty-three.