AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 February 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CADLE ASSOCIATION. BIG ROBBERY. NEW YORK, Jan. 30 At Norfolk, Virginia, bandits kidnapped the Paymaster of the Longleytield Air Station. They, tied him up to a tree, aucl escaped with a pay roll of forty-two thousand dollars. WORKERS SHOT. NEW YORK, Jan. 31 At Corbin, in Kentucky, two men were killed by special police. These police were battling with railway employees. The police claim they were attacked while seeking to investigate shots fired in the vicinity of a group of raihvaymen. FALL IN ANGLO-FRENCH CURRENCY. NEW YORK, Jan 30. The latest news regarding the Ruhr has sent the French franc down to the lowest level it has reached for three years. To-day’s quotation is 6.00 cents to the franc. Sterling exchange has also dropped to 4.G3 cents. BALDWIN’S STB ICTURE. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. Senator McKellar in a speech in tho Senate, said that the British Government should disavow Rt Hon Mr Baldwin’s statement (cabled on January 27), wherein he asserted the United States Senate was made up of members of agricultural and pastoral communities, who did not realise the existing position regarding the meaning ot international debt. Senator McKellar said—“l cannot believe Hie British people entertain the view which Mr Baldwin expresses. They have always been a debt-paying people. They have not treated their obligations as a scrap of paper, and it is inconceivable that those self-respecting people will permit one dI their own number to utter thesei uncalled-for, untrue, and discourteous

words.” Senator MoKollar demanded the disclosure of the identity of the American diplomats who gave assurances that debt funding would he carried nut under certain conditions not- published. which a London newspaper says provided for two to three per cent interest on £20,000,000 annually. Concluding, Senator McKellar said: “Where is the great Ambassador Harvey ? Whv does he not raise his voice oil behalf of the Government and the Vmericnn people? Has be lost his voice permanently? He never seems on hand when something real is going on.’ . Senator McCormick says no eeonomio conference could restore Europe to normal, and it must learn the. same thrift and frugality that is used in American finance.

17.5. A. OBLIGATIONS. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. Representative Kitchin, who is a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, said: “When the United States granted loans to the Allies, t cautioned the members of the Committee against the tremendous cost of tno war, ami against propaganda to have the Allied debts cancelled, and tho Secretary of the Treasury assured mo that payment would he demanded in full.. Otherwise, the Committee would, not have voted the loan bills. It will be time enough for patriotic Americansto consider foreign debts when the holders of our own war bonds signify their willingness to release the United States from its obligations to them. FATTY ARBUCKLE. NEW YORK, Jan. 31 A telegram from Los Angeles says: Roscoe Arburkle has announced that he will never act again, but that he has signed a contract with a cinema firm to act as the director of their comedies He said; “From now on, the public ' will hear from me only through the medium of the pictures I direct.