AMERICAN ITEMS. RACING DECISION.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1921, Page 1

AMERICAN ITEMS.

RACING DECISION.

BY TEIiKGIUriI—I'IIESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TARIFF RILL. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. ! The Senate passed the conference report on the tariff bill by 49 to 36. -Mr Wilson has four days within which to veto or sign the measure. TRAIN DISASTER. | reuter's telegrams. (Received this day at 8 a.in.) NEW YORK, March I. Details of the Gain wreck show a Canadian train travelling at fifty miles an hour was derailed crossing the, New York Central track. The Central train, travelling at a speed of sixty miles an 1 oui- plunged into the derailed coaches and several were telescoped. ROCK FELL ICR’S GIFTS. NEW YORK, Feb 28. Rock fellers have donated two million dollars to European relief funds. AN AMERICAN YARN. NEW YORK, February 28. A Philadelphia newspaper has published a sensational Paris cable stating that .Japan is having constructed in Europe a great fleet of war aeroplanes, some 100 machines of special construction, enabling them to rise easily from the deck of a battleship. They have been purchased in France and French airmen have been approached to proceed to Japan.

r AMERICA’S NAVY

MUST BE EQUAL TO ANY

NEW YORK, Feb. 28. .Mr Denby is the newly appointed

-re I ary of the Navy. In the course of a statement at Detroit, lie said the size of the American Navy is a matter of the gravest importance. “I believe,” be said, ‘‘the present building programme with perhaps some alterations suggested by experience and careful thought, should proceed. We are to-day a power to such an extent that, our Navy must be the equal of any other. This seems justly and naturally to be called for. I believe in, and will urge, a strong first line of defence. Primarily my duty will be to help keep our Navy marine corps, not i.nlv ready to fight, but fit to fight, and trained to the minute.

At Lexington Senator Harding announced that cx-Scnator Jolm W. Weeks lias been appointed Minister of War.

JAP MOVES IX THE PACIFIC. NEW YORK, Pel). 28. Tin.* '•Chicago News” correspondent i t .Ronk, in the Caroline islands, states the Japanese naval authorities are making two important strategic moves under Japanese mandate over the South Sea Islands. It is understood for one thing, thgt foreigners will he able to enter the islands only after securing papers , a permission which is rarely given when commerce is the object. New high power radio stations are being erected on the islands ot \\ itje and.Palan. — hub—laMMßW

(Received This Day at 9.-15 a.m.) LONDON, March ]. The Jockey Cluh stewards have decided that Donoghtie must vide Poltava in the Lincolnshire Handicap, in view of his undertaking to ride for Raphael before Joel arranged a second claim lor Ilia services. King John, Tractor and Paper .Money are leaving Newmarket on Thursday for New Zealand.