AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1921, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN ANI) N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. POLITICIAN ON TOUR. NEW YORK, May 11 The Agent of the Australian Press Association interviewed the New South Wales Premier, Mr Storey, who declared that he was feeling only slightly better than when in London. The specialists at London forbade him to engage in active work for some time, and recommended an extended trip. Mr Storey said he accordingly will visit Japan, cn route to Australia. •

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In an interview, the New South Wales Premier, Mr J. Storey, said he went to Loudon mainly to place the necessities of New South Wales, from a development standpoint, before British investors, and to give an account of the reproductive works upon which past loans had been expended, and of the specific works contemplated in the near future. He did not go to London to negotiate a loan, but merely to gauge the position in the event of New South Wales desiring to enter the 1-ondon market. His mission was highly successful. Mr Storey added : “What I’ve seen of other countries has made me even a more confirmed lover of Australia. Although other countries have been, developed to a far greater extent by the employment of capital, Australia has shown very remarkable results, considering her youth and limited opportunity for advancement.

Mr Storey leaves New York on May 19, and sails in the Empress of Russia for the East on May 26. He arrives at Yokohama on June 6. He leaves Japan on June 13, and is due in Australia about July 12.

ENGLAND’S DEBT TO UNITED STATES. WASHINGTON, May 10 The United States Treasury has completed a minute study of the foreign loan question, and is ready to open negotiations regarding the funding of the British war loan of five billion dollars, but awaits some word from England. No move is expected until the reparations are settled.

AMERICAN MARINE STRIKE. NEW YORK, May 10. After a week’s conference between the Labour Department and the-ship-ping strikers, the Government arbitration efforts have been suspended. The unionists refused to accept a 15 per cent, wage reduction. The United States Shipping Board insists upon the reduction. / The ship owners are now preparing for a lengthy strike. The strikers claim that only 18 vessels sailed from New York since the strike began.

1 MELEE AT BALTIMORE. NEW YORK, May 11. j At Baltimore a crowd of striking seamen, numbering 1500 yesterday made several fierce attacks on the non-union-ists engaged on the wharves in place of the strikers. The non unionist workers are chiefly negroes. | Yesterday a violent conflict resulted, : during which pistols and knives were used. A dozen men were badly injured. I One hundred men were arrested, i The police were temporarily overpowered during a heavy assault in the financial district, but quiet was restored by the evening. The Merchant and Miners’ Company’s steamer Persian was partly burned at the docks, but the cause is unknown. ACCIDENT TO CHARLIE CHAPLIN, i NEW YORK, May 11. | Charles Chaplin was burned from the ankles to the waist at Los Angelos when he tripped over an acetylene torch, during film-taking, setting his trousers ablaze. Assistants threw wet blankets around the comedian, and extinguished the flames. His injuries are not serious.