AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1920, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

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VILLA TO SURRENDER. . MEXICO CITY, July 28 General Villa telegraphed to a resident offering unconditional surrender. The President insists the surrender must include the repair of the railways Villa recently destroyed. ALLEGED INCONSISTENCY. * (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 29. A statement issued at Atlantic City says: —“Mr Lloyd- Gborge’s edict barring Dr Mannix from the British Isles contrasts strangely with the Premier’s attitude towards Cardinal Mereier during the war. It merely discloses one of a dozen of the Premier’s inconsistencies on the Irish question. _ The Premier abandons democracy when it is a matter of British expediency. Tin’s Premier who prevents an Irish prelate from landing, is the same who landed. Cardinal Mereier to the skies. The man who wanted self-determination for the world, with the mental reservation that Ireland was not part of the World.” AMERICA AND FAR EAST. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 29. United States Government is closely watching Japanese relations and tie Japanese policy in the Far East, because of the effect on questions involved in the recent withdrawal of American troops from Siberia-, the signing of consortium relative to Chinese financial aid, and assumption of control of Chinese eastern railway by Japanese and Jap occupation of saghnlien. United States is unwilling to concur in he occupation of Sagbalien. The British Ambassador took part in a conference with the Secretary of State, Mr Colby, because of Australia and Canadian interests in Cliinn-Japenese trade and settlement of the Oriental labour problem. TERMS FOR VILLA. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) MEXICO CITY, July 9 Final terms of the Villa surrender decided that the bandit will retire into private life at a place designated by the Government, to disband forces M relinquish his military title.

SCRAPPING THE YACHTS. 'Renter's Telegrams.) (Received this day at 12.25 p.nR NEW YORK, July 28. Neither the Shamrock nor the Resolute will race again. The Resolute will he taken to the builder’s yard and be scapped. The same fate awaits the Shamrock, which Sir Thomas Lipton leaves in America. The series of races just ended have convinced yachtsmen that radical changes in the rules are necessary, if spirited contests and real tests are to be expected in the future. Time allowances may be eliminated and any ocean course substituted for the fickle tide-swept waters around Sandy Hook. .