AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1922, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A SCOTCH. CABINET. OITAWA, Aug Id. A new I armors cabinet in Manitoua consists entirely of Scotchmen, i,.emoers of the Presoytefian Church. BOOTLEGGERS. NEW TURK, Aug 10. Evidence in the case in Desmoiues Court alleged that bootleggers recently obtained two thousand gallons of alcohol by draining Cadaver Vans medical colleges.

GERMANY AND U.S.A. WASHINGTON, August 10. Tlie State Department atnounces that the United States has signed an agreement with Germany in Berlin to-day, providing for mixed commissions to settle America war claims against Germany (as cabled on July 29). The United States is to appoint one commissioner and an umpire. Germany is to appoint one commissioner. President Harding lias appointed Supreme Court Justice W. R. Day umpire. The agreement comes into force without the approval of the Senate. The Commission will shortly convene at Washington MINERS RESUME. NEW YORK, Aug. 11. The New York “World’s” Cleveland correspondent states:—The coal operators and miners in Ohio, Illinois, and Western Pennsylvania, have agreed to make n contract permitting an immediate resumption of soft coal mining and have named a joint committee to work out the details. The mining will probably he resumed next week. Mr Lewis (head of United Mine "Workers) said this means that 75 per cent of the six hundred thousand striking miners will return to work. STATE CONTROL OF LINES. NFAV YORK, Aug. 11. The Governors of North Dakota, Minnisota, Wisconsin and Town have informed President Harding that they will approve of taking over the railways and mines, if necessary, for the country’s welfare. THE COAL SHORTAGE. NEW YORK, Aug. 10. The Illinois Manufacturers’ Association have announced that their factories in Chicago, employing three hundred thousand workers, will be forced to shut down owing to a coal shortage, unless the strike is speedily terminated. HALS. RALEIGH. NEW YORK. Aug. 10. There were eleven casualties in the wreck of H.M.S. Raleigh, which is now among the reefs of Labrador, two hundred yards from the shore. Her bow is under water. OTTAWA, Aug. 10. J American and British naval vessels are now standing by the Raleigh, which is flooded to the waterline.

RAIL STRIKE REPORTS. '"Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 11. Declaring their lives were endangered engineers and firemen in important divisions of Louisville railway have struck Sixty-three bombs exploded in Santa Fe company’s shops at San Bernardino, California. There were no casualties. Two hundred railway heads met to vote on Mr Harding’s proposals. It i» learned a sharp division exists in Boston. STEAMER IN TROUBLE. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 11. The Navy wireless iceeived a. call for assistant from tho liner Adriatic due to an explosion in the hold. Later the captain reported be -was able to proceed unaided. Tbe ship is 1200 miles off New York. Another message states tlie Captain wirelessed that two firemen were killed and one missing, and five trimmers and electricians were seriously injured, through a bunker explosion. The vessel is undamaged.