AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1923, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. GERMANY AND AMERlCA(.Received this day at 8 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 1< • The visit of Hails Dikhoff, of the German Embassy to Mr Hughes, which aroused the suspicion m Germany th. it was intended to ask for the friendly offices of United States in respect to the Ruhr situation, was it turns out oi the purpose of handing 1 in led States a memorandum which outlined the gen oral situation in Ruhr from the German standpoint, and reviewing the status of the reparations question. The State Department declared the memorandum in no wav constituted a settlement of the proposal or asked that a memorandum should he presented to the French Governnint. No reply was requested and none will be given •

OIL RIGHTS. (Rereived this day at 8 a.in 1 NEW YORK. March 18. The “New York Times’’ AVashington correspondent says the Department of the Interior has issued a statement and decision declaring it would prevent the Roxana Petroleum Corporation , which is British and Dutch owned from .“-obtaining leases for exploration of pu i- ' fie oil lands on the ground that Great Britain and Holland are refusing similar rights to Americans. The statement emphasised the United States’ intention to refuse oil exploitation rights to citizens of those nations which did not. grant like privileges to Americans, ft points out that early in 1 891 Great Britain refused entrance to ‘.American concerns into the exploitation of ml lands in Burma, and gives at length a list of restrictions Holland and Britain imposes in their various domains. AIRCRAFT AND radio. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 18. The New York Tribune’s Washington correspondent telegraphs that President Harding will suggest an international convention governing the use of aircraft- and radio in war, and preventing the bombing of unfortified cities and the protection of neutral rights between the United States and the principal Bowers, which attended the Washington conference. The correspondent says the State Department has indicated officially the convention will bo based upon a report by .Tohn Bassett Moore, the American delegate to the Hague. The conference drafted comprehensive rules concerning the employment of aircraft and radio.