AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1922, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

.U3TKALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCI Allt-ft. ' U.s. A. PRESIDENT’S IDEAS. NEW YORK, June 9. At the Princetown University, President Harding dedicated a war memorial to fallen graduates and received the dfegre of Doctor of Laws. In a brief speech lm declared that the problems of peace depended for a solution upon the education of man. President Harding added: —“ln the fruitful intellectual soils of universities we may trace the germination of ideas, systems and institutions, which have been greatly responsible for the advances of mankind.”

WORD’S WHEAT SUPPLY. WASHINGTON, June 10. Thfe Foodstuff’s Division of the Department of Commerce has issued a—— — statement as to the World's Fair havgin a shortage of wheat-, which will begin to be felt at the end of June, and the stipplies added ot the world’s wheat stocks will be lower than for sfeverHl years, since both Argentina' and Australia have considerably less than last year. The United States carry over will be light. Only Canada will possess considerable stocks in hand. There is an upward trend in the Europe consumption. This indicates a larger demand than last year, whereas the prospects are for a smaller crop. The international wheat trade will, until next February, be dependent largely for sup plies upon the North American surplus and a limited quantity from India:

MEXICAN DISTURBERS. WASHINGTON, June 10. A report from the town of San Antonio, in Texas, states that there is a possibility of further troubles in Mexico. where some rumours are already current that a new revolt against Pres- . ill nt Obregoit is foreshadowed, in the discovery of two dead bodies of Mexican lenders in the Rio Grande river. [These were Colonel Martinez and General Blanco, who was Secretary fob AVar under Carrailza. They were shot through the heart and handcuffed tot gntlien .