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Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1923, Page 2

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«*s» - AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. / I'.S.A. NAVY. AYASHTNGTON, April .5 Tho U.S. Navy Department has aibr' nounced a further stop in carrying oup the Navy Treaty. This will be taken in September next, when two new battleships, the Colorado and the West Virginnia will be completed, thus requiring the scrapping of the Delawnre, and the North Dakota. The new ships will carry eight sixteen inch guns, with a range exceeding 32,000 yards. Six new cruisers will also be delivered between dune and September. WAR ON UNIONS. WARNING TO CAPITAL. WASHINGTON, April ? Air S. (tempers (President of tho American Labour Federation) has uttered a warning to the employers’ torosts, who have asked President Harding to make an nix'll ship campaign tho issue at the presidential elections. He said:—‘'This smacks of Fascism in America, where Labour and the general public will not tolerate it. Organised labour is more than ready to moot this issue.” Mr pers declared that the strikes during 1922 wore the cause of the business prosperity in 1923, because the depression was the result of tho attempt at a general reduction in wages, which Labour had vigorously opposed.

NEW WOMEN’S RECORD. NEW YORK, April 5. Miss Gertrude Kderle has set three new world’s records for swimming. In a hundred foot pool she swam two hundred yards in 150 1-5 seconds; 200 metres in 105 1-5 sees; and 220 yards in 16(5 1-5 secs. / AEROPLANE MISHAP. NEW YORK. April 1. A telegram from Ellerhe, North Carolina. says Kirkwood, the golfer, who left f inchnrst, on route for Asheville, in mi aeroplane piloted by Janies Cole find a narrow escape from death, when the plane was caught in an electrical storm, causing a short circuit in the magneto, which compelled the machine to make a forced landing. Kirkwood escaped injury, but Cole had three ribs 'broken. . A TORNADO. (Received this djiv at 9.25 a.in.) NEW YORK, April S. Fourteen persons are known to he dead and fifty injured, and heavy property damage done by a tornado at Piucville, Lonssane.