AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1921, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. sugar deal. HAVANA, August 3 The Presidents Secretary has announced that the sale of a million tons of sugar to the German Government is likely. disarmament con fek enc k WASHINGTON, August 3. The State Department has announced officially that they proposed November 11th. for the opening of the Disarmament Conference but an agreement has not been reached. BANK ROBBERS. NEW YORK, Aug. I. The police are busy hunting down a gang of mail robbers and counterfeiters whose alleged head is a man named Worthington. Their peculations total a million dollars, including a million from a Toledo bank and 300,000 from a Chi cago bank; also three and a half millions from the Council Muffs (lnwa) bank. Among the effects of the gang which the Government seized were nearly half a million dollars worth of its own bonds, which have been identified as part of the proceeds of bank robberies.

SOVIET FUNDS STOLEN. \ NEW YORK, Aug. 3 / Tlic “New York World” reports the '*'■> arrest of Roliert Gibarie, charged with the theft of 130,000 dollars of the Russian Soviets funds. It is stated a - - shortage of nearly 1,000,000 dollars has 1 been discovered in the Soviet funds, deposited in a New Aork hank. CHICAGO EASE 11 ALL SCANDAL. NEW YORK, Aug. 3 Seven members of the famous \\ bite Sox Chicago baseball team were yesteidav acquitted by a jury on n charge of selling the 1010 series of games. They were to-day, .however, banned by the Mascha 11 Commission from ever again playing.. The Commission decided that !my players who had confessed to throwing art.ay a game, or conspired with gamblers with a view r.: throwing a game away, should not bo reinstated.

CALIFORNIA AND THE JAVANESE Washington, A"g»«t 3. It is understood that the Japanese Exclusion League of California have filed a brief with Mr Hughes (U.S Secretary) petitioning for the abrogation of the “Gentleman’s agreement” with Japan. They declared that no self-respecting world power should have made such a pact. A letter signed ‘by the Californian senators and congressmen has accompanied the brief, generally approving of its contents and inviting serious consideration by Mr Hnglms. The brief states: -“To-day the intelligent, white business professional and labouring elements, which until a few months ago derided th ( . warnings of the Japanese peril, are openly, secretly directly and through commissions petitioning for protection.” The Brief adds: —“The Treaty of settlement with Japan proposed would lie a violation, an invasion ol our states’ rights.