AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1921, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. PAPER MILLS STOP. NEW YORK, May 11 Seven large paper millers in the United States and Canada have shut down. This fallowed on the failure of the employer and the workers to sign proposed neu agreements. Between 15,000 and 20,000 men arc now striking.. Tlie output of the mills that are closing was four thousand tons daily, being 60 per cent or the entire paper production in the United States and Canada.

J. H. THOMAS HOOTED. NEW YORK, May 11 Mr J. H. Thomas, the British Labour M.P., Secretary to the Railwaymen’s Federation lias arrived here. He was given a hot reception on his arrival by a big crowd of Irish and American labourites. They met his boat flying banners inscribed as follows: —“Judas banged himself! What is Thomas going to do? Thomas betrayed the British miners!” The American longshoremen also booed him. While it is reported that Thomas is here on some diplomatic mission, lie refuses to give ally confirmation. He states he is here for-his health.

RECORD TRIP TO ENGLAND. OTTAWA, May 11. Montreal reports state that thirty Australian tourists are making a record trip to England via Canada. Disembarking at Vancouver from Niagara on May 6th., they Ixwrded an express, | renchiang Quebec in four days and thirteen hours later the liner Empress was rushing seaward for Liverpool to break the record. cause of china’s famine. j . WASHINGTON, May 11. < Tlie famine in China is the result of ruthless deforestation by the Chinese, according to United States foresters who have studied the situation. They say frequent floods or drought cause a famine in seven out of every ten years. WARNING IN AMERICA. NEW YORK, May M'2. Mr D. L. Simpsos, the Adviser to the Chinese President and Government Statistician, is here oofiducting a campaign for the United States, and Dominions’ support against the renewal of the Anglo-Japnnese Alliance. He has interviewed the Canadian Premier. China seeks the elimination of Article Twenty-one, from the Peace Treaty Covenant, referring to the Monroe Doctrine. because she says the British and Japanese will claim that the Treaty is a regional understanding and must thus become an acknowledged law in the Orient.

Mr Simpson predicts that Canada will make a stand at the Imperial Conference next month against the renewal of the treaty on the ground that it contains the danger of war between the United States and Japan, as China is contemplating appealing to the United States to stop the Japanese oppression in China and Japan’s reply will he to ask for British support.