AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1920, Page 2

A MERICAN ITEMS.

'By Electric Telegraph— Co n-ngnt A WILL O’ THE WISP, ).. NEW YORK, May 16. / Reports from Mexico City state the whereabouts of Carranza is still unknown. • ■ Another report states Carranza has arrived at Verb Cruz. > , . a « • MEXICAN FIGHTING, (Received Thiß Day at 8 a.m,) MEXICO CITY, May 17. Revolutionists have captured ' 2,009 prisoners, 24 trains, four pieces of artillery, 200 machine guns and a great quantity of ammunition, gold and silver bars. Fighting began 'on Friday . morning and after a three hours' battle/ Carranza and the leading members of his party abandoned the trains and. fieri in automobiles, escorted by 500 cavalry. Rebel cavalry are pursuing. Unconfirmed reports of Friday said Carranza was captured.

CARRANZA’S GALLANTRY. (Received this’ day at 8.40 a.m.) I * MEXICO CITY, May 17. Carranza’s last stand was a. heroic spectacle. Without water or food, outnumbered and surrounded, the Carranzists fought desperately against overwhelming odds, General Murguai, and Carranza personally leading, charges .by which finally, mi way was cut for the escape to the mountains. The rebels pay a generous tribute to Carranga’s heroism. His horso was shot under him, but he remounted and continued the battle.

EUROPE’S PLIGHT,

HUMAN TRAGEDY IMMINENT, 4 deceived this day at 8.40 ( a.m.) | NEW YORK, May' 17. A message- from Des Moines, lowa, states Henry P. .Davidson, chairman ' of the League of Red- Cross Societies, 1 declared at a genoral conference of th e | Methodist and Episcopal Churches, that . starvation and disease had undermined middle and eastern .Europe, and that a complete economic, political, moral and physical collapse was imminent. He urged the vital necessity of Congress appropriating five hundred millions for use in Central and Eastern Europe, and inviting other Powers to follow suit and co-operate in feeding the people. The crisis was so acute that delay would be fatal and the re-' suit would be the most terrible tragedy tbe human race has known. To be despised for evfer as a greedy, pharisaiscal nation, was a fate of United States must not incur. > •;

UNITED STATES NAVY. (Received this day at 10.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 17. Mr Dainilels (Secretary for the Navy) declared in his evidence before the Naval Investigation Committee, the effort to Prussianise the American Navy and make a rubber stamp of its civilian head, was behind the attacks. He challenged Admiral Sims’ party to face the issue before Congress and the poople.