AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1922, Page 1

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION TILDEN’S FINGER. NEW YORK, Dec. 14 Another inch has been removed from the middle finger of Tilden’s right hand. The tennis champion’s finger is now - down to the second joint. Rll 13SIDENT -AND FARMERS. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 President Harding sent a message to the National Council of the farmers cooperative marketing association. He declared co-operative marketing among farmers promised more help for present relief and permanent settlement of agricultural conditions than any other movement. Government were anxious to do everything reasonable, but Government aid 1 cannot he effective unless the farmers organised and were alive to their own responsibility to establish practical instruments of distribution. “TIGER’S” DEPARTURE. WASHINGTON December 14. Ex-President Wilson telegraphed congratulations to M. Clemencean upon the admiration in which he is held by the American people. HELP FOR AUSTRIA AND GERMANY. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) AYASHINGTON, December 14. Representative Newton on belialf of twenty-one members of the House introduced a resolution asking Congress to appropriate seventy million dollars for relief of famine conditions in Austria and Germany, the money to be used for the purchase of food in United States, which would be distributed by Red Cross organisations. The resolution stated widespread starvation even now prevails among seventy million people in Austria and Germany and unless relief is immedately extended, one hundred thousand, if not millions will die of hunger and cold during the coming winter. FINANCE FOR GERMANY. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 15. The New York “Herald’s” Washington correspondent states United States hankers are considering the flotation of a loan of one hundred million dollars, with the aid of an international financier, for Germany, being the only visible way of saving Germany from economic collapse. The correspondent adds that Government favours such a loan, but only on condition that reparations be limited.