MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1919, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

t ßy Electric Telegraph—Copyright.! , AUSTItALIAN it N.2. OAlil.B ASSOCIATION] MAJORITY REPORT. WASHINGTON, September 15. Attacking the majority report, Senator McCumber characterised it as selfish immoral and dishonourable seeking to isolate United States and to cause hoi to desert her Allies. The reservations were voiced defiantly and discourteously expressing a jingoistic tone which ought to be eliminated from the American spirit. The majority report failed to explain the League’s aims and purposes. Regarding the British Dominions Mr McCumber declared tbey were almost independent and their votes would not effect' United States as it was necessary to secure a unanimous vote before the Council could act. United States would, therefore, be untrammelled.

UNEMPLOYED PROTEST. LONDON September loth

Twenty-eight' unemployed demobiisod soldiers are walking from Manchester to London, as a protest against Govern* inent’s apathy regarding the unemployed question. The Lord Mayor of Manchester witnessed their departure and wislied/tho part Godspeed.

PARIS CONGRESS. PARIS, September 15. The Nationalist and Socialist Congress canned a resolution excluding 'rom membership those Socialist Deuities who voted for the ratification f the Peace Treaty, but not exclud'd g those who voted for the war credits.

COTTON CONTROL. NEW YORK, Sept. 15. Great Britain fins' withdrawn her irbhibition on the re-export of Ameri•au cotton in British territory.

PEACE LOAN NOT TAKING ON ' SYDNEY, Sep. IG.

Applications for Peace Loan scrip are materialising very slowly, despite the active campaign. The Colonial Sugar Company have bought £IOO,OOO worth of stock.

HURRICANE LIFTS LINER. NEW YORK, Sept. 15. A hurricane demolished buildings at Port Aransus, on Mustang Island, with loss of life, and also lifted the steamer Medina ashore at the dockbead at Aransas Pass. A hurricane caused twelve deaths at', the town of Corpus Ghristi, in Texas. / A CAPITALIST PLOT. WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. Mr Da Jiekker, the journalist, giving. 'evidence before the Senate Committee that is investigating as to Mexico, stated that the Mexican petroleum companies were plotting to bring about American intervention in Afexico, and that every oil company in Mexico was partial to this plot.

COAL -MINERS QUESTION. LONDON, Scplt. 14. Regarding the uncertain political position, it is now suggested in some circles that Air Lloyd George, will possibly consider tbe advisabilty of [tutting the question of nationalisation of the miners to a referendum.

NEW HEIGHT RECORD. NEW YORK, Sept. 15. An American aviator, Roland Rohlfe, as reached an altitude of 34,000 ft. in a Curtiss aeroplane, thus beating the world’s record.

SPANISH INFLUENZA. (Received this da_v at 9.20 a.in.) NEW YORK, Sep. 10. A message from Chicago states there as been a recrudescence of Spanish ulluenza. A total of 07 eases have een reported'.

MEXICAN TREATMENT. (Received this dnv at 9.20 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Sep. 16. M iss Agnes Laut, a woman journalist, who has been making an investigations of the Mexican situation, gave evidence before the Senate Committee, which is enquiring into conditions in Mexico. Miss Laut made an appeal for American women who had been carried off by bandits and tortured. One American farmer was tied to a tree and stabbed until he became insane. Women captives are at the mercy of bandits. Mexican troops are equally guilty with the bandits.