AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1922, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. THE “TIGER.” NEW YORK, Nov 21. M. Clemenceau, ex-Premier of France, has taken New Yoik by storm, although his first address, explaining France’s position to America, will he made ,to-morrow, and to date his public utterances have been few. Tie rises at four in the morning, and has visitors all day long till his retirement at eight in the evening. Hundreds of public men have been granted audiences. His repartee and sardonic humour amaze everyone meeting him. He attends dozens of receptions every day, and is whisked from <me banker’s homo many miles out in the country to another’s for breakfast, luncheon, and dinner. Newspaper men dog his footsteps all day, and, his friends, somewhat alarmed, took him to a diabetic specialist to-dav lor examination, since lie has been suffering from that disease for ten years, the physician declared be is fit physically, though li« is eighty-one. but the first signs of grave fatigue crept in to-day, when, at the end of sixteen hours’ activity, ho had to he helped to bed. It is iecalled that he said:—“As the result of my American trip, a little bit ol me "ill die!” TO EXCLUDE ASIATICS. VANCOUVER, Nov 21. British Columbia Legislature passed tilna.nimously a. resolution demanding Federal legislation totally excluding Asiatics.

Meamer Disaster.

EIGHTY PERSON'S DROWNED. BEUTKII’S TEIiEGKAM 4 ** (Received this day at S a.m.) NEW YORK. Nov 21. Kbditv persons were drowned while 'attempting to land from a steamer which went aground at the mouth ot Colorado river. Twenty were saved.