AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1920, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyrights ALLEGED MEXICAN PLOT. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. A message from San Antonio (Texas) says that an American Senate Committee is engaged in the investigation of flie Mexican frontier disturbance. It has been informed that a plot was batched in Mexico with tho knowledge of Carranza, to separate six American States, and gain them to Mexico. Some Texan attorneys and others disclosed details during the evidence of raids to kill Americans and burn bridges. It was stated that German money was believed to be involved.

PAPER SHORTAGE. FIGHT IN CANADA . .Received This Day a t 8 a.m.) ’ OTTAWA, Jan. 21, The newspapers in the Western Provinces of Canada are undergoing a severe printing paper famine. The newspapers in some cities have suspended. In the cities they have joined and are issuing single, condensed editions. The Canadian Government has ordered large paper mills belonging to Fort Francis Company, of Western Ontario to divert to these cities a large proportion of its output which was intended for shipment to the United States. _ Fort Francis Company has refused to do this, on the grounds that Government is not fulfilling its promise to supply the Company’s United States customers from eastern Canadian mills.

Governent thereupon declared an embargo on all-Fort Francis printing paper being shipped to United States. This had the expected result of a forty per cent, diminution of paper supplies to western United States newspapers.

MANDATE OVER PALESTINE. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) - NEW YORK, Jan. 21. Charles Cowan, asistant Secretary of the Zionist organisation in America, declared the Peace Conference will shortly announce that England has been given a mandate over Palestine. CHINA AND JAPAN. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. China i s expected to respond favourably to Japan’s invitation to begin negotiations regarding Kiachau.

A SINKING SHIP. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 21 A later wireless message contradicted the previous statement that the Powhattan’s passengers were taken off by the iCedrio. The pasengers are still aboard, waiting a calmer sea. Tho destroyers are standing by. The Cedric has resumed her voyage. The Powhattan is reported to be 225 miles south of Halifax, in tow of the Western Comet, bound for Halifax.

The Canadian Government tugs aro going to her assistance.

HAGUE TRIBUNAL. (Received This Dav qt 8 q.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. President Wilson has reappointed the American members of the International High Tribunal of Arbitration at (be Hague, whose terms had lapsed during the war. It is believed Mr Wilson intends utilising the tribunal as the mncliincry for the settlement of disputes coming up before the League of Nations. ■;! THE AMERICAN CUP. * NEW YORK, Jan. 19. The New York Yacht Club, in an official statement, says that it will race Sir Thomas Lipton’s Shamrock qt Sandy Hook about July 13th.

LIQUOR CONFISCATE. NEW YORE, Jan. 19, Three million dollars worth of liquor has been confiscated since Prohibition became effective, ABSOLVED FROM BLAME. (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 19. The Morgantlian Mission, which has been investigating, reported Pogroms in Poland, absolves the Polish nation from responsibility -for the excesses.

PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS. (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. The pan-American Financial Congress has opened. North, Soutji, and Central American countries were invited to lay their financial needs before the United States Government. The delegates emphasised that United States must finance Latin America or lose the trade acquired during the war. LOAN TO EUROPE. (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 21. The Finance Corporation announces it has granted a credit- of ten milling dollars worth of machinery fpr England, Franco, Italy and (Belgium.