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[BEUTEK'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

NEW YORK, August 10th. The police state that yesterday's Sacco-Vanzetti demonstrations in

New York passed off more pescably than had been expected...

The most serious trouble occur red at a meeting of -5,000 people in Union Square, which was broken up by the police after a half-hour running fight.

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BOSTON, August 10th. It is estimated that G.$100,000,000 explosion, sítike, and riot insur-

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Judge Scorns Guards. WORCESTER, Mass., Aug. 10th, To the astonishment of armed policemen guarding his house: Judge Thayer, who öriginally tried Sacco and Vanzetti and has now refused to revoke the sentence, calmly left his home last night and went for a stroll with a pet bulldog. The police all day long had fal- lowed Judge Thayer wherever be went, and wher earlier in the even- ing he motored out with his wife he was escorted by police motor- cyclista.......

Sacco Rahises to Sign a Petition,'

BOSTON, August 10th. Sacco refused to sign a petition for & writ of habeas corpus which was rubmitted to him in prison to day by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defence Committee attorney.

Swedish Bluf. STOCKHOLM, August 10th. The Swedish Sacco-Vanzetti Defence Committee bas urgently

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2-Recruits.

During the month of August any member of the Corps wishing to introduce a recruit for enrolment should report at Corps Headquar- ters between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. on. Monday evenings.

3. Examination. No. 032 Pic. F. X. Delgado, No. 9 Platoon, is granted if months" exemption from Military Duties, from August 15th, 1927, to Decem- ber 31st, 1937.

4.-Resignation.

No. 530 Sergh F. Brett, Engineer Company, is permitted to resign from the Corps, as from July 21st, 1027, having completed three years' service in the Corps.

R. A. WOLF-Murray, Major,

Adjutant, HK.V.D.C. Hong Kong, August 12th, 1927.

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DUBLIN HONOURS MR. O'HIGGINS.

WIDOW'S LAST KISS.

IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL

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DUBLIN.

The people of Ireland's capital: did all that was humanly possible to honour Mr. Kevin O'Higgins, the murdered Vice-President of the Free State Executive, when his body was borne to the grave.

One could enlarge for long upon the details of his funeral upon its royal length of two miles or more - watcher from the air would have seen the procession as a line stretched across the whole city upon the hour and a half it took to pass a given point, upon the thousands who took part in it.

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Everyone ia, Dublin, who not infirm took his share in the last pageant, either as a silent ob- server from the roadside or as a walker behind the bier upon the gun carriage..

THE QUEEN AND A SUPERSTITION.

PAYING FOR A PAIR OF SCISSORS.

SIXPENCE FOR LORD PROVOST.

EDINBURGH. There was a delightful incident when the King inaugurated a new bousing scheme “at where his Majesty and the Queen each planted a tree.

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Taking a spade the King put threc

generous spadefuis ́of soil round the spling's roots, and, striking the spade into the earth in workmanlike fashion, said, Tronah Hinse "There, I think that will do." Ural Caspiant

The royal party then moved to the second tree, which was suspend

This is a city normally Tull of“ addies and brooks, where it is noted by three strands of ribbon above. the hole in which it was to be easy to make people rally together,

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O'Higgins gave Dublin for some hours an entire population bearing all the same air and many of them walking with the same desolate tread.

Mourning and Hops. In the church of St. Andrew, the parish church of the Dail, the Re- quiem Mass for Mr. O'Higgins was

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The committee has telegraphed urging the similar committees in Paris, Oslo and Berlin to do the

same.

The Condemned.

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Boaros, August 10th. The three weeks hunger strike plainly telling on Sacco, who stares dully at the ceiling of his narrow cell. The warders are of the opinion that a premature death from starvation is his only hope of

cheating the chair."

infinite sadness about the earlier the altar remained, as usual, unoe- part of the ceremony. During thes

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"The principal machines will be four main 230 volt generators of 200 K. W. each four 250 volt auxi-

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Housing, especially for the working classes, enlists the deep sympathy and. warmest interest of the Queen and myself.

Their Majesties were accompani ed by Princess Mary and Lord Lascelles, and along two miles of On the route from Holyrood Palace

Prestonfeld to

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children were massed and they gave their Majesties a wonderful

The Tragic Widow. There were many who turned their heads away at the sight, and Vanzetti, whose fast has not liary generators of 73 K. W. each, been. so rigid, paces bis cell and a double armature 1,000 volt sorrow-stricken figure, with tears all the more as the widow, a frail, feverishly. His only interest re- main propelling motor of 2,800 streaming down her face, staggered cheer. cently has been correspondence; able for a sta speed of 11 knots.

S.H.P. running at 95 R.P.M., suit forward with outstretched arms. especially welcome letters from The four six cylinder engines will Italy, Like Sacco, he has abandon-be designed for a normal output of ed hope. I die for anarchy 750 B.H.P. at a speed of 223 R.P.M.

-North has been the burden of his missives

Phing Daily News, to friends and relatives.

La Holland,

THE HAGUE August 10th Threatening letters in connection with the Sacco Vanzetti case have been received by the American Minister and also the police.

The latter are guarding" the American Legation and the Minis ter's residence,

Prison Well Guarded,

BOSTON, August 10th.

Great searchlights and a battery of machine guns are mounted out side the prison walls in the event of sympathisers who are holding "death watchon " attempting & rescue of Sacco and Vanzetti.

BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

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Girl's Homely Piano Solo. to the side of the coffin. Convulfive miles to another housing estate

For a moment she clung sobbing

The royal party drove nearly sively she kissed it. Then, her at Lochend, where they visited strength seeming to ebb away, she four of the houses. The visits were

Ora, 4 months'sight... 1,270 gave a low mean and sank back unexpected, but the homeliness of into the arms of her friends.

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With a supreme effort she rallied put the householders and their SUV wrangler

her exhausted power yet again and walked on by the side of the cofân, the saddest figure in Ireland Though she was anxious to go on to the final scene at Glasnevin, friends prevailed upon her to drive home instead.

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RUGBY, August 10th. In connection with the Sacco and Vanzetti executions, and merely as a precautionary measure, the Bri-

Immediately the King" and tish police authorities have posted hushed, crowd, and a gun-carriage played the National Anthem in On You On demand.

In the street outside was the Queen "entered Margaret, aged 15, guards at the United States Em drawn by mounted artillerymen homely fashion on the piano, and Or bassy, and Consulate in London..

with an escort of cavalry. On this

US SLIGAPORE~~OB. on being complimented by the

demand... E [THROUGH REGTER'S AGENCY.] the, coffin was placed, and the Queen gave an encore performance On Batavia-On demand

Wreaths on, ten Army tenders. Later in the day the King and. Ox Hairsuse.—On demand ... covered in black cloth, behind.

Queen, with Princess Mary and Balans-Un damand In front of Parliament House,

Viscount Hyde Park, held a protest patred, build, his country's his 80th birthday, at Dalmeny Ban Sivas, per os.

Lasoelie visited Lord O BAGKOK-Un demand Kevin O'Higgins had Rosebery, who recently, celebrated SOTEIN, Bank' Buring rata $10 against the execution of Bacco and

GOLD LEAF, 100 flas, por Vasett, thousands of people went future, was gathered, by inten House and took tes with him, i in procession to the American Em tional chance, many young chil

dren,, and it was under the timid bassy, in Grosvenor Gardens...

eyes of those for whom he fought They found their way barred by most that this quiet and selfiess foot and mounted police, the latter thinker, passed, understood at last

British Demonstrators. meanLarwowprikaguash. 10th. After a Communist meeting in

A triple line of guards patrols the walls of the penitentiary and repeatedly charging and thus dis- by his countrymen, and perhaps for

other officers guard the adjacent streets and approaches to the bridge. The whole region is pack- ed with guards, and policemen.,

persing the crowd, many of whom fed before the horses.

*** [RMUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

No Hope Held Forthi BEVERLY, Mass., Aug 10th.

ever requited..

LORD BIRKENHEAD.

impossible for, Lord Birkenhead to Bad weather at dawn made it

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By to Ireland to attend the funeral of Mr. Kevin O'Higgins, the 16-- sassinated 'Vice President of the Irish Free State Executive. r

Lord. Birkenhead not only want ed to stand at the graveside as a British Minister, but also as mark of his great admiration, and

charactere in Ireland.

MR. COSGRAVE'S TRIBUTE.

Speaking at the graveside, Mr. *. Sacco's Outburst."','"

Cosgrave, President of the Execu "They have crucified me for

tive, sid:EN "Seven"""yesiz,””Znd I have nothing Counsel for Bacco and Vanzetti, Kevin O'Higgins died a noble mare to do with them," angrily ex- after an hour's conference with Mr. and a happy death. It' aceds ra Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, of intimate: association with him to claimed Bacco, when he refused to the United States Supreme Court, describe the character of the man respect for one of the strongest sign the petition for habeat corpus at the latter's house, told journ. Such was his own natural power

But high winds and rain, made bazardous in the eyes of the

On the contrary, Vanzetti seemedalists who awaited him on the that his mind made itself felt and might flying over the sea seem tog pleased, and signed readily lawn, that no human power at the understood throughout the land.

Map! Get Reprieve,"

present time could stop the -men- The possibility of postponement from going to the electric chair of the execution is indicated. In an after midnight.

Counsel then returned to the announcement by Judge Bander- son, of the State Supreme Court, State House. that he will give his decision to- morrow on a motion by defence counsel saking him to permit a bill

If fho seemed insensible at times thorities. Not to Lord Birken- towards the tinctions of others, be head, however, for he sat up until was at all times merciless towards o'clock, until daya brought the himself. From disorders, the comnews that the authorities had re- bined result of long misgovern commended the cancellation of the Respite Granted.”

meat and revolt, in a few years fight. time under his direction arose, ni New York, August 10th:.-

Not until then did he give up It is announced that Sacco and new and stable edifice of public hope of reaching Dublin in time. of exception from his refusal to Vanzetti have been granted & order and public peace His In the eyes of colleagues in Lon- grant writs of error and habens respite.

example of duty, sanity, energy, don, however, and of friends in and enterprise-will inspire our Dublin who are mourning the pass

ing of the stateaman, the gesture nation to the end.

has not been lostamam samaymakam

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Sacco and Vanzetti have been given a respite until Angust 22nd.

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