AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1921, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

BY TEL EG RAPE —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TRIBUTE TO WILSON/ ' (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 10. A National tribute to e x-President Wilson is proposed hv a number of his prominent admirers, the idea originating with women who worked in the campaign to gain support for the League, The tribute will probably take the form of a five hundred thousand dollar .fund contributed in small amounts, the interest whereof will be given as a reward to one who, during the year, has done the greatest service to humanity. The nature of the service will he defined by Mr Wilson, who ’ expressed himself deeply appreciative 1 of the honour. 1 A LONG SEND. • (Received this day at 8 a.m.) I NEW YORK, March 10. The world’s long distance wireless re- ■ cord has been broken by the United 1 States Navy sending within tlu-ee minu- : tes from Cavite to Washington, approximately ten thousand miles, i _ ) UNITED STATES REPUBLICANS. - THROW LEAGUE OF NATIONS OUT. NEW YORK, March 9. The “New York Times” Washington - correspondent says:—Senator Knox, President Harding, and the entiro Senate are marking time on the question of peace with Germany and an Association of Nations. This is due to a desire not to enibarass the Allies in their present undertaking in Germany. A • noticeable charge has come over the t Republican Senators with respect to the ' League of Nations issue. There is 1 a distinct evidence of a more general hostility towards the League principle. Senator Lodge seems to have now graduated from a Reservationist to an irreconcilable. All those hitherto .. classed as mild reservationists are now showing signs of their willingness to throw over the League of Nations standard completely. There is discernable a - traditional attitude of “go-slow rei- assorting itself among the Republicans. i The quick peace and quick action in i relating to the Association of Nations . as promised during the campaign, seem i, to have been forgotten. t , AMERICAN AMBASSADOR, 3 —■— (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 10 -President Harding has named Colonel George Harvey, as Ambassador to England. He is editor of Harvey’s Weekly, and was a former editor or the New York “World” and “Harper’s Weekly.” He became a democrat in order to support Mr Wilson for President, and stoutly upheld him till the. League of Nations issue rose, but then he bitterly attacked Wilson and turned Republican again. i PETROL PRICES FALL. [ NEW YORK, March 10. : The wholesale price petrol has been reduced in New York, New Jersey, ar- ' Maryland to 24) cents a gallon. This > represents a two-cents decrease a gal- • lon.