AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1920, Page 1

AMERICAN ITEMS.

il3y Electric Telegraph—Copj ight.)

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. NEW YORK, July 22. A telegram from Lincoln Nebraska, rtatos the Prohibition Party has nominited Mr Bryan for the Presidency.

MR HARDING’S PROGRAMME. NEW YORK, July 22. y According to a message from Marion, Ohio, Mr Harding promised to sign, im,mediately Congress passed, a declaration to the effect that there would be 4‘No surrender of rights to a World Council or military alliance, and no assumed mandatory Power ever shall sumT)ion the sons of the Republic to war.” Tie would approach the nations proposhig to commit ‘‘the moral forces of the World, (America included) to peace and international justice, still leaving ■ America free, independent and self-re-liant, but offering friendship to all' the world.” He approves of collective bargaining, but insists the exercise of it Inust not destroy the right ol the individual in the pursuit of bis livelihood of the right to strike against the Government, properly denied, as its service does not involve profit. He opposes government ownership, and approves of a" free Panama Canal for American shipping, a protective tariff, care of the Veterans, especially disabled men, to effect an understanding witli Mexico, enforce prohibition, and give America maritime supremacy.

i HONORS FOR JOURNALISTS, i (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) \ OTTAWA, . uly 23 ■The McGill University at Montreal will confer the honorary doetorship of laws on visiting journalists, namely, Lord Burnham, Sir Harry Brittain, Messrs Ralph Stapleton, and Ward Jackson, (Johannesburg). Messrs Leys, (Auckland) and Currie officiating Australian journalists, left Vancouver after being the touring guests of the Vancouver newspaper proprietors. They are now enjoying the mountain resorts. EXCHANGE RATES. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 23. The foreign exchange market suffered a serious relapse. The pound sterling is 375) cents; French*francs, 747 cents each, and German marks, 2) cents. Other European exchanges have also fallen heavily. It is thought the RussoPolish situation and the probability of an Allied intervention has caused the market’s condition. UNITED STATES TRADE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) j • NEW YORK, July 23. It is announced at Washington that the United States exports for the fiscal year ended 30th Juno were:—Blll mil. lion dollars, and the imports 5238 millions. The gold imports amounted to 151 millions and the exports to 467 millions; silver imports, 102.800,000; exports 179,000,000. NOT IN DEMAND NOW. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 23 A Seattle message states:- —It is reported here from Halifax, that two submarines constructed here for Chili am sold to Canada during the war, will In auctioned shortly to the highest bidder.” HELPING THE HELPLESS. BUENOS AYRES, July 23. Parliament has approved of an appropriation of five million pesos to send food to Vienna.

GOLD FOR JAPAN. 9 (Received this day at 8 a.in.) NEW YORK, July 23. It is expected that four million dollars in gold will be sent to Tokio before the end of July. Akira Don, the financial Commissioner stated neither the Japanese Government nor the Bank of Japan had any connection with gold export, which was only the normal exchange of private banks. The present total gold reserve held by the Government and Bank of Japan, consisting oi the home gold reserve and credit abroad amounts to 1,921,000,000 yen. THE RAILROAD BROTHERHOOD. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 24. A Chicago message states the executives of the Railroad Brotherhood have completed an order for a country wide referendum on the Federal Labour Board’s wage award, strongly advising against a strike, and intimating cightyper cent, of the empoyees had agreed through the representatives to accept. BRITAIN AND AMERICA. NEW YORK, July 21. Sir E. Geddes (British Ambassador) speaking at Ashville, a holiday resort, in North Carolina, said: “There is no need for our nations to gaze suspiciously at each other. There is every need in the world that' they should regard one another with mutual respect and understanding. The mass of British people -are very much What they ha'e always been, only that now political powers are more widely diffused. ’ WIRELESS TELEPHONY. ST. JOHN’S July 23. The Marconi’s Wireless Company’s experts announced that they heard wiieless telephonic messages from Chelmsford station (England), and said that 1 they recognised the voices of Captain 1 Round, expert in charge, and identified 1 several words hut failed to pick up any ; connected sentences.