AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1922, Page 1

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TRANSPORT ARRIVES. 'Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan 13. The transport steamer Crooke has arrived under her own steam, listing. The engineers spent twelve hours in the cold fighting the intush of water, and finally concreted the leaks. A LAWYER FLOGGED. NEW YORK, Jan. 13. A telegram from Shreveport, Louisiana, state Harold Mults, attorney for two l.W.W’s. recently convicted on vagrancy charges, was kidnapped by two masked men from the porch of an hotel arid driven in an automobile to the outskirts of the town, unmercifully flogged, and put on a train leaving the State. He arrived at Dellas, Texas, whore lie went to the hospital for treatment. Another lawyer named Carney received similar treatment last week, liecause he defended an T.W.W.

ALIEN FUNDS. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 13. The Alien Property Custodian, Mr Millar, has announced a plan by which $400,000,000 of alien property liquidated in United States will he held in America for the resumption of trade with the Central Powers. It is believed if remittances arc now made to the owners ol property abroad, the German and Austrian Governments would confiscate ninety-five per cent thereof. It is pointed out that United States is not expected to apply confiscated property to pay American reparations, since it would involve the confiscation of private property which would be repugnant to feeling here.