AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1923, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS

vIBTRALIAN AM) N.Z. CAULK Abb' K. fA » lO.s j CANADIAN FIRES. OTTAWA. Jan I. j A, lire of unknown origin destroyed two more Canadian Ca.tiiulh insimi-l tiiioiis. bringing tlie total to twelv: ; within a year. The buildings razed j were the Hood Shepherd ( oiivent in (,1m lice, and Provincial •'•'olmol in Win-' nipeg. AAI FI! I CAN PROPOSAL. W.VSI 11 NOT ON. January I. j Jn the Lnited Slates Senate a Bill has been introduced providing that America shall semi an official delegate to the Allied Reparations Commission. ; Si’imtur |{t)t>inson is Imo jroposoi. • Speaking in tlu* SoiO'to in invour nt enacting the Bill. Senator Robinson dedared that the baited States Govern- • ment, oid not private hanker-, should , grapple with the European economic pioblcms insolnr as they allccted Am- ; orican industry and the State. Senate! Robinson criticised the See: clary ot State. All Hughes's plan for unofficial j commission. !■ was an abdication b., ; the Government oi its powers and oh- ; ligations to (lea! with foreign problems. ; Congress should authorise the L’lesideilt ' tc appoint an official I .S.A. nqaesen- : tntive on the Reparations C mmissioii. This Bill was not intended to embar-'a-s the i'residciit. It* impose was i,, nlievc him 1 rum humiliation impo, d on him 1 ."II pirtv -*sorisins. “11 is i ur al Hint •' find rnljoslment "l the reparations he speedily ell’eeted." he said, “if the United States can render efieetive assistance, an effort must he made at once, he should not wait iiuiil Hermany is hopelessly bankrupt. Both hesitation and secrecy should be abandoned. Let Lhe Senate he informed of what has : lieen done, and what the Ouvcri'inent proposes to do to save us from file harm which is inevitable it the present , 1 olit.i'-a! and economic disturbances in Europe continue.” Senator Robinson suggested that Ambassador Harvey (of London) lie called hefore the Foreign Relations Committee Senator Lodge n-'siired him Dial :li the information that ivonbl assist 'it dealing with tin's question would be obtained by the committee immed ately upon the receipt of a cable from !’n''is announcing the i'remiers’ Conference there had been broken up after a disagreement WASHINGTON, January -I. Senator Johnson attacked Senator Robinson's Bill. Ho declared : “There is too much loose talk in tic counti.v about America’s duty. In England, the feeling is that all that, the Lnited i States can do to stabilise Europe is to cancel Europe's debt. There is the tiling we can do! Do we want to do 't ? Be can play a part by forgiving . Hie debt. 11 you are ready to do it. i am not ready! There is a road.' 1 Will yon lake it? Dare you take it ’ Hr. will von continue to engage in the same'empty talk and nebulous expressinus that we have been hearing?’ r ' Colonel Harvey, C.S.A., Ambassador ai London. Inis conferred with Air . Hughes (Secretary of State), and President Harding, the President cancelling all his engagements so as to devote himself to the consideration of" tin | new situation. j J The I nitod Press understands that I | t be United States is not likely to make . : any move immediately. VANCOUVER. Jan -t. | Eyewitnesses of the Kelso disaster say that when the bridge collapsed, a 'inis carrying twenty school children i plunged into the river, and only four' of the children were rescued. The latest estimate is that eighty ; lives were lost at Kelso. lIERRTN" TIM ALT NEW YORK. Jan 4. A Afarion telegram states that at tiro miners' trial tTfe defence witness testified that the mine guards fired the first shots in the Herrin riots from a con(ealcd gun in the mine. One witness declared that lie saw a crowd of miners some with gun* noli reaching the mine. Two millers offered to persuade the non-union workers to quit. Then tile witness saw an advancing miner fall under the mine guards' lire, after which his fellow j miners retaliated, j ARBUCKLE BARRED, j NEW YORK'. Jan o. J Tlic» Public Relations Advisory C'omj mittee to the cinema industry .eomposj ed of leaders of national, civic, and educational organisations, has passed a resolution opposing Roscon Ar- | buckle's re-entry into pictures. I hey | declared it would be harmful to child--1 ren to display his films.