AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1922, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

.G3l RALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. CHINA’S CIVIL WAR. NEW YORK, May 1. Following upon the declaration of martial law at Pekin, the Foreign Diplomatists’ body met to discuss precau-tionary-measures. It was decided to wait a reply, from the Chinese Foreign Office on the foreign Powers’ warning against fighting in Pekin. Tbe commanders of the Allied troops at Tientsin reported they were ready to seize the Pekin-Tientsin railway if traffic were interrupted.. The American Legation suggested that Washington should send an additional gunboat to Tientsin: President Chang has issued three proi lactations. One orders the opposing torces to withdraw in vibw of the db--111.11 nlisation of the nation's industries. The second is one asking the Pfekin gendarmes to take adequate measures to piotect the Pekin metropolitan, area. The third emphasises the need for protecting the lives and property of foreigners. - ' .

THE CHINESE REBELLION. . FIGHTING IN PROGRESS , Received This Day at 8 30 a.m. i WASHINGTON, May 1. The State Department is advffied that additional American forces from the cruiser Albany have been sent to Pekin. Another gunboat is going to Tientsin. Changtso Lin’s- forces turned back a train carrying the American Embassy officials to Nukden. Foreign powers protested to Chang against blocking the railways, stating it is a violation of the 1900 protocol. Wu Pei Fu’s army lias reached a point on the railway, between Pekin and Tientsin. Other forces are marching across the country to attack Chang Tso Len south of Tientsin. The fighting around Pekin has diminished as a result of Chang’s retirement. The woundedi and dead found outside the city indicate the fierceness of the fighting.

SENSATIONAL SUICIDE. NEW YORK, April 30.Mrs Rose Grainger, mother of Percy Grainger (the well-known theatrical) leaped from the 18-storey Aeolian building in the busiest street in New York and was instantly killed. The police believe tliat Mrs Grainger ended her life because she was suffering from a painful stomach ailment. ■ She had come to visit th» oflice of her son’s concert tour headquarters. The manageress, Mrs Sawyer, stated that she rested on a couch and com*plained of stomachial pains. She then asked the manageress to go to a chemists. When the latter returned, however, she found the room empty. Hundreds of people saw Mrs Grainger make her leap. She was 60 years old. Her son was on a Los Angelos concert tour.

GOMPERS AND SOVIET. NEiW YORK, r May 1. The President of the U.S.A. Labour Federation, Mr S. Gompers, after a conference with Labour leaders at Chicago, issued a statement flaying Bolshevism, and stating: “That in view of developments at Genoa, nothing could constitute a more needless or base betrayal of civilisation than the American recognition of tryanny.”