AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1921, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN.

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. THE PEONAGE MURDERS. NEW YORK, March 29. Judge Parks has declared that he will ask for military protection during the trial at Atlanta, of the Peonage murders. Governor Dorsey in a state ment said that in certain sections of Georgia, brutal landlord! were their labourers away by cruel treatment, |l and making it impossible to secure operating capital for the plantations. There under-current of resentment at the action of the National Association for th c Advancement of the Coloured Race despatching telegrams to President Harding, Mr Dougherty, (At-torney-General), and Governor Dorsey, making charges that peonage is being practised generally in Georgia and other cotton-growing States. The planter Williams denies the charges and his son has been released. Reports from other ‘parts of the State has been circulated that, the negroes plan an uprising against the , whites. Many other rumours are curj rent tending to engender race hatred, ! The people of the State are aroused over the situation. All the authorities I promise strict and quick justiee.

NO MOVE TO DISARMAMENT. WASHINGTON, March 29. While there is ground for a belief that Sir A. Geddes (British Minister) has had informal conversations ivith th ( . State Department relative to disarmament, it is authoritatively learned that nothing in the nature of formal negotiations have been taken up. FRUIT CROP DESTROYED. WASHINGTON, March 30. The IBS. Department of Agricui-. ture announces that a sudden drop in temperature, varying between 30 and 60 degrees Fahreneit during two days and extending over the Eastern seaboard and the Middle West did_ probably one hundred million dollars worth of damage to the fruit trees. Virtually «11 the early crops have been frozen, March has been an extremely inild month, and all the trees were bloomings The frost has ruined the early peaches cherries strawberries, plums, and* apples. Tn Missouri alone the damage is estimated at ten million dollar's. O’ CA llagha ns MISS lON. WASHINGTON, March 30. The laird Mayor of Cork, Mr O’Callaghan remains in America. It is understood the State Department will contest .Mr o‘Callaghaii’s pica that h e is entitled to remain in the United States as a political refugee. The Department’s ground will he that Britain has not demanded his surrender and that he promised the Immigration Officials when he arrived, that he intended to stay only 60 days. However, the State Department and the Labour Department, in the meantime will not hinder Mr O’Callaghan from visiting the^j

different, cities with large Irish-Ame-rican populations, and there are delivering speeches on the Trisli situation.

CHINA AND FOREIGN POWERS

WASHINGTON, March 30

Mr Hughes (Secretary of State) sent a letter to the P. Morgan Company, bead of the American group of bankers promoting the 1 Chinese Consortium, giving the Harding Administrations full approval of the consortium and the principle of a co-operative effort for giving assistance to China. Mr Hughes has also published hitherto unrevealed notes and documents, exchanged between th e United Japan, France, and England that resulted in the organisation of the Consortium. The correspondence illuminates Japan’s attitude and portrays the manner in which the United States and Britain assumed a united stand against Japan’s seeming effort to establish a possible sphere of influence in Manchuria, Eastern and Inner Mongolia, and brought about a Japanese change of position, and acceptance of th e maintenance of an open door in China.

DIPLOMAT RESIGNS. WASHINGTON, March 30. Mr Morris’s resignation as American Minister in Japan lias been accepted by President Raiding. STILL BANNED. Ottawa, March 29. Instructions were given not to allow Esmonde to enter the country when the Makura arrives on Wednesday except for the purpose of boarding a boat at Victoria for United States. NOT RECOGNISED. WASHINGTON, Mar. 29. The State Department announced that thp American legation at Pekin had received a communication front the Far Eastern Republic of Siberia asking United States recognition. It is learned ’that the communication will be ignored for the present. WIRELESS PROJECTS. ‘ WASHINGTON Mar. 29. Th 0 Commerce Department announced the Federal Telegraph Company, an American concern, will build the world s largest wireless station at Shanghai. This is regarded as the most. important step yet taken to advanc e American trade in the Far East. The American Government also secured from the Chinese Government concessions to build stations at Pekin and Harbin. Take no risks with that cold securi a bottle of “NAZOL” at once. Only 1/6 for 60 doses.' .All chemists and stores. For liglit cost under heavy loads there’s no truck tyre to compare with NORTH BRITISH §OLID TRUCK TYRES. Guaranteed for 10.000 miles. Pure, piquant, and low in pnee— SHARLAND’S VINEGAR. Made from Experienced housewives always use SHARLAND’S BAKING POWDER. It makes lovely light pastry, cakes and scones. Most economical.