AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AC ST it A. Id AN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. IJ.S.A. AIR FORCE. * "WASHINGTON March 12. The Secretary for War, Mr TV ainwriglit. in a final report, urges tho adoption of an army air programme requiring an expenditure of fifteen million dollars within the next five years. A DISASTROUS STORM. NEW YORK, March 12. According to a Chicago message, it ruinous storm, emerging from the south-west .took twenty five lives, and destroyed property the value of which lias not been yet estimated. It cutoff communication with the interior cities, which is now gradually being restored. The winds were of high velocity. and rain, electrical storms and blizzards swept a. wide sectoi during j]u- night. Rands of rescuers, who arrived before dawn, are now busy currying on relief work. CHICAGO, March 13.

The storm death total is greater than cabled earlier. It is now known to be -10. The injured number 70. Tlu- disturbance passed over seven States. Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Misconsin, Mississippi, Ohio, and Arkansas, sweeping clean before it buildings, railroads, wires and every otliei msui-mude obstruction everywhere. There was in every place either a deluge of rain, sleet and hail, ot blind-

ing snow. The rescue work was seriously hindered by the destruction of the. means of transportation and communication. The storm continued all through the night, moving across the Great Lakes into Canada. JAPAN AND PORT ARTHUR. WASHINGTON, March 12. It is learned officially that Japan will refuse China’s demand for the return of Port Arthur, and for tho abrogation of Japan’s twenty-one demands (as cabled March 10). It is explained that Japan already has returned Shantung, but the opinion prevails that no Cabinet could stand which granted China’s new demands.

VON MUELLER DEAD. BERLIN. March 12. Obituary—Von Mueller, tho Eniden s comma rider. A G HUMAN’S CAREER. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 13. The “Times" Berlin correspondent, says von Mueller was aged died of inflammation of tho After his release, he played only aminor part in the German revolution. During the following years lie- frequently lectured on his exploits, one© in Cologne with the sanction of the British authorities. Lately, however, his activities in the occupied area, had conic under ban of the Rhineland high Commission.