AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1920, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS

(by Electric Telegraph—Copvriirur •

SOVIET CONSPIRACY. NEW YORK, March 4

Documents before the Senate Committee reveal a Soviet conspiracy to start a Bolshevik revolution in United States.

FIND OF DIAMONDS. NEW YORK, March 4. Diamonds valued at three million roubles were discovered at Athens. A Soviet courier who was arrested had hidden them ill the false bottom of a valise, with compromising documents.

AMERICAN OFFER. WASHINGTON, March 4 Mr McAdoo suggests that United States should purchase the British possession- o'! (be Atlantic Coast including Bahama, Bermudas, and Jamaica, giving Britain credit for them against the war debt of £4,267,000,000 sterling. Prohibitionists support the proposal because Americans are flocking to these islands, where the liquor trade is flour-

ishing. British circles view the idea with little favour and point out that British pride is an insuperable obstacle to acceptance.

AMERICAN SUGGESTION. WASHINGTON, March 8. Mr Lodge has introduced a resolution into the Senate urging the Peace Conference to give Greece territory in Asia Minor ,Northern Epirius and the chief islands of Agean Sea. The press points out that United States suggestion is worthless without the personal backing of its reoresentatives at the conference.