THE ANARCHIST SENSATION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 226, 6 January 1911, Page 5

THE ANARCHIST SENSATION

DRASTIC TREATMENT OF ALIENS DEMANDED. PETER THE PALYTER AT LARGE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, January 4.

The police announce that a third body, that of Peter-the-Painter, has been found in the ruins. ' The others have been identified as Fritz and an associate named Jacobs. There is definite evidence that the defenders set fire to the house.

The police believe that Peter-the-Painter and Fritz did not reside together, but kept in close communication with each other by means of women, including Bessie Gershon, in whose room in Sidney street the police discovered both Fritz and Peter. Bessie Gershon was arrested prior to the attack on the house.

The Telegraph says that an English girl was lured to the house by a couple of foreigners, and ill-treated. Information was subsequently given to the police, and the men were identified as Fritz and Peter. A third man named Rozen was also concerned. This led to the raid.

Newspapers recall the similitude of the Cato street conspiracy on February 23, 1620.

Among the ruins two large automatic pistols wer«' found. Sixteen police, soldiers, civilians and firemen are being treated for injuries caused by falling debris. London, January 5. Later information is to the effect that owing to the fragmentary recovery of remains, it is now definitely announced that only two bodies have been found. Peter-the-Painter is still uncaptured.

NEWSPAPER COMMENT. London, January 4. Earl Cawdor, in the Times, states that he hopes there are not many such desperadoes in East London, nor is it very likely there are. Other newspapers express the widespread Btupefaction and indignation of the public at the abuse of British hospitality, and demand rigid supervision of aliens.

The Daily News protests at' any possible attempt to identify East End aliens as a class with desperadoes such as this gang, who are a problem by themselves. What is needed i 3 a notoriously efficient police deterrent to their landing, and the continuation of the Government policy of expelling criminal aliens. The Times says that the fact of a detachment of Guards sweaung the streets with bullets because to anarchists were firing pistols from a house from which they could not eso le needs more explanation than is ye forthcoming. Other papers cxpre< '-similar opinions, and the press genei&lly demands closer scrutiny and more drastic treatment of aliens and more protection against desperadoes. Sir Robert Anderson, formerly head of the Criminal Investigation Department, insists upon the introductions of * stronger Aliens Act. |

DISUSE OF THE ALIENS ACT. A ' CONDEMNED BY RECORDER AND PRIEST. "A SPAWNING GROUND FOR BREEDING VICE." Received 5, 10.30 p.m. London, January 5. Mr. Lawes, the Recorder of the Salisbury Quarter Sessions, said that the Houndsditch sad occurrence in London Taised the question of whether the very ■wise provisions of the Aliens Act, which he was afraid had fallen into disuse, should not be enforced—and everybody demanded it so as to prevent alien criminals landing. He did not wish t» see alien political refugees refused the asylum heretofore provided, hut there was such a thing as going too far in allowing the refuse of other countries to enter without question whatever.

Father Bernard Vaughan, speaking in London, said that all would agree that foreign desperadoes must be stopped from making England a spawning ground for breeding vice for foreign exportation. The Aliens Act had not sufficient restraining force. In the East End there was not work or food enough to go round, and if any starved surely it ought not to be the members of our own family, hut the undesirable and lawless alien.

VIEWS ON THE CONTINENT. FRENCH AND GERMAN CRITICISMS. Received 5, 10.30 p.m. London, January 5. "While French public opinion and the newspapers warmly applauded the British authorities for the prompt and determined measures in Sydney street, and ■welcomed the suggestion that the Aliens Act should be more rigorously applied to tighten the meshes against undesirables, the German comments are very diverse* according to political predilections. The Lokal Auzeiger, discussing the formidable array of police and -"military,. With a Maxim, to capture a couple of criminals, compares the action of the London authorities to shooting sparrows with a cannon, and hopes the incident will lead to the abolition of what it describes as a foolish right of asylum. The Berliner Tageblatt, like the Neue Frei Presse of Vienna, strenuously protests against the idea of restricting the right of asylum which hitherto has been one of free Britain's chief glories.

REGISTRATION OF ALIENS. FAVORED BY FOREIGN CLUBS. Received 0, 12.30 a.m. London, January 5. Mr. Churchill has decided not to issue any Home Office report on the siege. He is considering, with the assistance of

the chiefs of the .Metropolitan City Police and others, what future measures are necessary to cope with the alien criminal. Enquiries show that members of foreign clubs in London are generally in favor of the registration of aliens, with a view to excluding those unable to produce satisfactory credentials from the country of their origin.

Twelve 'Mausers and several Browning pistols were found in the ruins at Sidney street. Of the two dead bodies found, only that of Fritz Svaars has been identified.

The police are convinced that both were present at Houndsditch. Twenty detectives are searching for Peter-the-Painter in the East End. It is uncertain whether the companions of Morountzeff regarded him as the leader of the gang.

The Cato street conspiracy referred to was a conspiracy by a band of desperate men, headed by Arthur Thistlewood, who assembled in Cato street and proposed the assassination of the Ministers of the Crown at a Cabinet dinner. They were betrayed and arrested, and five were executed as traitors.