AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1920, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

lACBTBALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ISSOOIATION J SOVIET-SIBERIAN DEAL. AMERICAN ATTITUDE. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.)r ; NEW YORK, Oct. 27. Martins, the selfstyled Soviet Ambassador, announces he has received a cablegram from Tchitoherin, stating a syndicate composed of Americans, has obtained a concession of four hundred thousand square miles in Siberia for the exploitation of oil, coal and fisheries. Negotiations are proceeding for an arrangement under which the syndicate would become fiscal agents for the Soviet in America, financing purchases up to five hundred million dollars.

N WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. ' Mr Colby announces the American representative at Riga, cabled that he had learned Americans were negotiating with the Soviet concerning the concession, and discussed with Lenin the question of recognition by the American Government, in the event of Mr Harding being elected .ns president.. Speaking at Marion, Mr Harding denied any knowledge concerning Russian concessions,or recognitio*. Official circles in Washington -have been stirred by the reports of the concessions in Russia. It is pointed out that Government warned Amerioans that in new business relations undertaken with the Soviet, they would not be recognised or protected.

' / „ MR WILSON ON ARTICLE 10. (Received This Day at 12.20 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. Discussing Article 10, Mr Wilson said—“lt is a specific pledge of League members that they will unite to resist exactly the things that Germany attempted, no matter who attempts them in the future. We have now to choose whether we will make good or quit. 'The issue is between Unittd States spirit and purpose, and the spirit and purpose of imperialsim, no matter where it shows itself. No one who opposes the ratification of the Versailles Treaty and adoption of the League Covenant, has proposed any other adequate means of bringing settled peace. There is another means, the socalled Americanism we hear so much prating about now. It is spurious, and 1 invented for party purposes only. The whole future moral force of right in the world depends upon United States, rather than on any other nation. It would be pitiful, indeed, if we should hold aloof.

ME WILSON’S DISSERTATION. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. Mr Wilson received a delegation of representative Republicans who favour the (League of Nations. The President said-—“We entered the war not merely to beat Germany, but to end the possibility of a renewal of such iniquitous schemes a 3 Germany entertained. Thera is only one way to assure a world peace, namely, by making it so dangerous to break the peace that no other nation will have the audacity to at- ' tempt! If there are other nations likely to be powerfully moved, or who are already moved by commercial jealousy, or by a desire to dominate and have their own way in policies of enterprise, it ie necessary lo check them, and apprise them that the world will be united against them, if they attempt anything similar to Germany's recent enterprise. The great moral influence of United States will be absolutely thrown away unless we complete the task our'soldiers and sailors under, took tp execute.”

-THE. JAP TROUBLE. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 27. A message from Sacramento tepor>.s the Japanese exclusion League of California has issued, a statement that California is 'xscruputously guarding the Treaty and vested rights of Japanese but declines to accord them rights not accorded to Americans, and the way lo inlsui'e misunderstanding and - trouble with' Japan is to permit the growth here of an. unassimilable alien community whose advantage in economic competition and .great birthrate make a race conflict inevitable.