AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1922, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

»C3IRALIAN AND N.*. CABLE ASSOCIATION,

LYNCH LAW. NEW YORK, July 9. Atlanta telegrams report that two negroes in Wayne County, the State of Georgia, who had been sentenced to death for an attack on a white woman, were granted one month’s reprieve bythe Governor of the State, to permit of the introduction of new evidence. A mob, however, took the Negroes from the g 'ol and lynched them. The Governor declared this act should not go unpunished, and has offered a large reward for the arrest of the lynchers. DIPLOMATIC SECRETS. WASHINGTON, July 9. The Japanese military attache has reported the theft of valuable diploma, tie correspondence, covering a period of twenty years. The papers bore the United States and Japanese seals. documents, which had been taken from a safe deposit vault for classification, disappeared from the Attache’s heime on July Ist. U.S.A. ARMAMENTS. NEW YORK, July 9. It is estimated that the cost’ to the United States of scrapping its war vessels under the Washington Naval Treaty will lie £500,000,0000. The re- . imliursements to the contractors for uncompleted vessels and the payment for labour in breaking up the existing ships, are estmated at £70,000.000. The cost of partially completed vessels doomed to destruction is £330,000,000. The vessels now in commission which ‘are to be scrapped are valued at 100,OOO.OOOdoI.