BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

CABLE NEWS.

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PANAMA CANAL TOLLS. WASHINGTON, June 13 The Senate Committee has reported favourably on Senator Borah s lesolution providing for free tolls through the Panama Canal for American ships.

MEXICO AND U.S.A. WASHINGTON, June 13. The United States-Mexico Treaty negotiations have reached a deadlock, President Obregon is disinclined to enW ter into a treaty of amity and com- *. merce, as his advisers are divided over the manner in which American property rights would be treated under the 1917 Constitution. America contemplates recognition of Mexico with the treaty’s signature. President Obregon has refused to sign l until recognition is made and he considers himself bound by the constitution to provide against treaties which abridge any citizen rights.

BIG LOANS FOll STOCK RAISERS WASHINGTON, June 14.

A group of Eastern State financiers, headed by J. P- Morgan, has pledged itself to finance the'live stock industry to the extent of twenty-five million dollars, and the Middle West interests have agreed to supply the same amount The loans will be. in /the form of long -term credits for from two to three years, subject to renewal. This will obviate the necessity of Government aid being given, as had been contempalted, because of the gravity of the situation. Unless the bankers could be persuaded to be more liberal, control would be put into the hands of a Western Committee that is meeting at Chicago to tfork out the details.

JAPANESE STEEL WORKS. (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) i TOKIO, June 14. The Government Economic Investigation Commission recommended the Amalgamation of Government and private steel producing plants, in K»rder to restore the industry which is practically - bankrupt, and obviate the present large outputs, to make Japan self-supporting and enable her to compete in the world steel markets.

FAMOUS MURDER RECALLED

REUTER* 8 TELEGRAMS. (Received This Day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, June 14. A famous murder was recalled when Mrs Rutherford petitioned fo r a divorce from Lieutenant Colonel Ruther- ' fodd, who is an inmate of Brfoadmoor Asylum, having been convicted in April 1919 on a charge of murdering Major Seton. The suit was undefended, but Amy Richardson, cousin of respondent with whom the misconduct was alleged intervened, and denied misconduct. The judge found misconduct proved and granted the decree nisi. A stay of execution was granted. AN APPEAL COURT DECISION. (Received this dav at 1.30 p.m.; LIONDON, June 14. The Appeal Court granted injunctions to two trade unionists restraining their respective Unions from expelling them Wause of their participation in the Lever Bros, co-partnership scheme for the benefit of employees, thereby reversing Justice Eves previous decision that he had no jurisdiction. The Chief Justice said if the Court did not hold jurisdiction over trade union expulsions. It would be disastrous leaving trade unionists at the mercy of a dominating section within the Union. Justice Younger said the importance of the cases could not be exaggerated.. Unjustifiable expulsions of trades unionists were little less than a sentence of industrial death.