BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

U.S. STATE GOVERNOR

INDICTED FOR RIG THEFT.

NEW YORK; Jub' 22. Governor Small, of Illinois/ who has been indicted at Springfield on a charge of conspiring to defraud the s State of 2,000,000 dollars, and of em. baling 700,000, declares that upon the advice of his counsel he will resist the warrant issued for hi« arrest *** basing his contention upon the comanon/ law dictum that “the* King can do no wrong.” Lawyers point out that each State considers itself a sovereign state, and the governor is its supreme power,' and can immediately pardon himself if. convicted. Impeachment is the only method of removal.

conference proposal. NEW YORK, inly 21

Tlie New York “Times” Washington correspondent says-“ The IT S. Administration does not regard sympathetically a suggestion now made f,om London that the Disarmament Conference should be postponed till next spring, in order to allow the Dom.ntarf Premiers to reton, home before going to Washington. It is felt the Conference subjects are too important to admit of delay.

AIR TESTS

NEW YORK, July 22,

Tests carried out on tbe Virginia coast demonstrated the value of aeroplanes against naval craft, am con vincinglv proved tbe ability of aeria combers to sink dreadnoughts, oix planes dropped six one ton bombs upon the German battleship Ostfneslai.d, sinking the vessel in 25 minutes.

INDIAN EMIGRATION. LONDON, July 21

The Australian Press Association learns that the Fiji Legislative Council is about to introduce a special ordinance in commonplace with the der mands of the Indian Government guaranteeing that the position ol Indian immigrants shall be equal to that of the other subjects of tbe King. MrKungou, a member of the Legislative Council of the United Provinces of India, and Mr Corbett, Deputytarv to the Indian Government Commerce Department, are to join Mr buttri’s commission lor I'iji, " " 1,1 charged with reporting as to whether Indian colonisation in Fiji should >" permitted. . .... Under a new Indian Emigration Bill, it is understood that the abolition of Indian indentured labour m IHi and elsewhere will be imperatively demanded, hut there will be no objection to Indians proceeding to Fiji if a suiia do field'for Indian colonisation js there offered them.