AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1920, Page 4

AMERICAN ITEMS.

(by Electric Telegraph—Copmgur i

VIEW OF AMERICA’S ATTITUDE NEW YORK, March 11.

The “Times” Ottawa correspondent reports the President of the Privy Council, Rowell, speaking in the House of Commons, said if United States Senate should adopt the reservations now before it, and the President accept them, the question of United States entrance into the League of Nations might depend on the action of Canada, and under those serious conditions we could not possibly give the necessary consent, because we were neither prepared to cut the tie binding us to another country, nor to revert to the old colonial relationship. Rowell added:—We all recognise the importance of United States coming into the League. No country was more interested than Canada that United States should join. We should he the last people in the world to put any obstacle in the way of her entry, but if United States should finally say “We will come in only on condition that you practically get out, or have your status impaired we can only reply,” we, as self respecting people cannot accede to vour terms .

ADMIRAL SIMS’ REVELATIONS. WASHINGTON, March 10. Admiral Sims, in further testimony stated the failure of the Navy Department to use the forces properly, resulted in the unnecessary loss of 2500 thousand tons of Allied slipping by submarine attacks. If this tonnage had not been lost, United Staets would have been able to send a million men to France at the beginning of 1918. WASHINGTON, March 12. Admiral Sims stated it was impossible, at first, to induce the Navy Department to adopt the British and French convoy system. The Department proposed to adopt a plan of its own manufacture which the Allies previously tried and had abandoned as worthless. It was not until Admiral Jellicoe wrote expressing the gravest apprehension at the failure of United States to participate, that the Department adopted the British system.