AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1921, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

. ittatllAl.lAN AND CABI.t: ASSOIa.-YltlN AMERICAN legion CONVENTION •NEW YORK, Oct: 31. : t’hc Aiiiorican Legion Cokivcntioiv, at winch Marshal Focli, Admiral Beatty. Ci&ncral Diaz and General Jacques are guests of honour, lias opened at Kansas City, the National Comniniuler intimating that the Legion will push efforts to”obtain federal aid for disabled veterans. 7 Vice-L’resident Coolidge 111 the course of a speech, said nothing is closer to President Harding than the question of relief for the incapacitated. 'I he l’ivsident will do all that can lie done to Jireveltt the need of you again sacn-fir-ing yourselves for the country’s wcliafb:

General Diilz said peace liiust arise from tiie world war. lie presented Italy’s greetings, General Jacques offering Belgium’s. CHINA AND THE KXIM.OITKHS. NEW YORK. Nov. 1. The Chicago Tribune’s l’ekm correspondent states: A financial crisis of an acute nature faces the Rok.ii Government, whose unsecured loans total 37(1,000,000 dollars, whereof 170,000,000 represent Japanese advances, and there is do limans of paying the. debts. T ie civil administration has decayed, and money in the provinces is not collected. American loans are falling due. It >s believed that Japan wili revive ail agitation for the appointment ol an International Debt Commission t» Cbuui. This may come before the Pacific C onto re nee. ItUHifEN-IH^MIUTAIUSNi. WASHINGTON. Oct. 31. Senator Stevenson. ranking as a Democratic member of the Semite Committee on Naval Affairs, in a said iliat Government oxpemlitincs, unless greatly reduced, would certainly lead to further industrial distress, which would finally culminate m universal bankruptcy. "The mad international competition in armaments can only he ended,” be said, by the success Of 'the Washington Conference. c Lulled States Government » taxing l n people ten per cent ot their total '»' come. This is more than three times the 1910 tax. The people v> ill ‘‘* to labour when they are t m- “ deprived of the. fruits of the. .oil. a Vnited States should recognise n< tleiiei.dc.ee of England on ae.ess tsea. alike in times of pence ami »■' ■ for the sustenance of her people amfor a continuation of her nidus. G<--. h„t we should insist that tins gives England no right of naval supremacy, or to place tin’ commerce of the under her control or dictation.

•j.XPS AT SAKUAMKN , Received This Day al Ml a AYASIIINGTON. Nov. 1. It is learned that Japan has informed I-nited States that she is not yet le.idy to withdraw her linlitnij f northern half of Sakluilien Is.am ■ SENS ATI ON A L C’H AR < 5 ES. AGAINST AMERICAN OFFICEBS. (Beceived This Day at p.m.) WASHINGTON. Nov. 1. - jvss&’sssu.*? a eonrtniartial. shot hy olheor* and inhumanly treated in many «<>*• AH Watson said he had photographs of - • L lows on which twenty-one soldiers * executed, lie offered to product witnesses if they were granted an indom--IUMr Borah produced a photograph showing several soldiers hanging from 1 Mr <l Watson declared privates were frequently shot hy officers of com plaints against the latter > ins>len<e and others wore hanged ndhoul n frinl of any sort. \ MTTRDERER’S sentence. ' LONDON. Nov 1. Harold Jones pleaded guilty to i\‘' murder of the girl Little at Abert.llerv His confession to the chaplain described how the murder was perpetrated from a desire to kill, and lie confessed lie killed the girl Burnell. .Tones was sentenced to detention during hi< Majesty’s pleasure.

11 FISHERMEN DROWNED. (Received This Day at 1.5 p.m.) NEW YORK. Nov. 1. Eleven fishermen wore drowned "hen two boats foundered in a storm off Ne Jersey coast.