AMERICAN ITEMS,

Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1923, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS,

lUSTRAI.IAN AND N.Z. CAIII.E ASSOCIATION. SK.VATOI! I.(>!)(.;K OS SHTTI.KM KXT. jKeeeived this <l.iv :>t. 11.H0 n..u.) WASHINGTON. Foil. 11. Sfililtor Lodge 111;. do It npOOf-ll ill till! Soiii'to in favour of ilio Debt Settlement Bill, lio doi loro.l the British settlement wns a great siib-tnntial I not in tlic midst of tlit' win I I'- eoniusioiis. For tint reason it will ho of groat vidno not only to tile I’nir d Slates and Great lliitaiii but to the world in general.

Senator l.odge enmineiided Britain for making the settlement. With regard to other debtor nations, h" deflated: We will never go to war to cidleet those debts, hut will hold on

to them and try every possible way to collect them. Il is uudersto d that the Democratic leader has annoiinecd lie would support l!:e Bill | :ovid d the Administrate n lenders' plan- to limit it tn the British debt, v ere adopted. Senator Fnderwool said he understood Senator Smoot planned tn amend the Mouse Bill, so il will not be a General Amendment Debt 15:11. but would constitute merely eoiicr. ssional approval of the British settlement.

IiFSSIAN CROWN JEWELS. NEW VORK. February I t. Another Russian crown jewel bubble exploded wluui the Foiled States Treasury agents opened the grave of an American seaman who died abroad, and in whose rotlin il was r.-jcried the Romanoff gems bed I."in mugglcd here. The conierrry was surrounded with armed guards while the ei.tliu was opened. There was nothing in it but llie corpse.