AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1923, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

NORTH pacific; blizzard VANCQUOER, Feb 1-f

During tlie worst coast bli/.zaiil experienced for a generation, tlie American motorship Coolcba, bound I nun San Francisco to Nanaimo, was stranded on Moresby Island, in the Georgia Gulf. The hull is badly punctured, but the crew are safe.

DESTRUCTION OK A CHURCH. OTTAWA. Feb U. Trinity Church, "Hic-b was burnt.!. Intel been sold recently to Symy C « holies ,nml was being remodelled for than purposes. It is tbits tbo fourteenth Catholic Church destroyed. WAR SHTEOCKS. WASHINGTON, February 11. In the Senate’s debt debate, Senator Borah said : “When the world considered how America put her blond and treasure into the war and asked nothing afterwards, and how the other nations profited tremendously in the post-war division of. spoils none should call America a Shyloclc, for the terms she accorded Britain are very generous. The example of the United States in refusing material gains from war was nnparalcllod in all history. et, heir and abroad, there has been a- propaganda to demonstrate that the Shylnck of the war was the United States.” Senator Borah quoted figures showing Jiow the war settlement gave Britain, vast new territory, embracing some of the world’s richest oilfields, while .France got A6OO square miles of Europe’s richest industrial section.

STEAMERS IN TROUBLE. VANCOUVER. Feb. 15. There is a heavy easterly gale off the Washington and Oregon coasts. The steamer Nika, rudderless. is afire near the Umatilla reef. The steamer Tuscan Prince is ashore in an unknown position south of Capo Flattery, and breaking up. The crew of forty-two is in peril. ’Pile steamer Santa Rita, while proceeding to the aid of the Nika, struck a rock, and is sinking lasi oil the cntrane to Juan <le Fuen. The motor ship Cooleha is aground near Victoria. 8.C.. anil has been abandoned.

\ rescue stormier is proceeding the Tuscan Prince and .Santa ltita The Nika’s crew was saved.