AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FROM HARDING’S VIEWPOINT. WASHINGTON. May 1(^. Mr Hughes, in a speech, intimated that the Harding Administration considers, the League of Nations a failure as an agency to enforce peace. Ha declares that peace cannot be maintained by force, and, with the present guardians of the peace disagreeing, he asks, who will guard the guardians? Tlie speaker attacked those hyphenated Americans who, having special F.urO' pcan interests, wish America to take the course benefiting them. He denied that the United States had imperialistic aims in Latin America. EMIGRATING TO UNITED STATES OTTAWA, May 17. The emigration situation in Quebec became so serious that the Government established an office in Montreal, directed by tho Catholic priests, for tho purpose of discouraging iTOiieli-Camid-ians, who comprise three-fourths of the population of the province, from emigrating to the United States. lhe office will he informed by the parish priests of any communicants intending to leave tho country, and spetal pressure will he brought to bear on such for the purpose of inducing them to stay. DECISION REVOKED. WASHINGTON, May IG. The Department of the Interior has revoked its decision (cabled March 17i pot to grant, the Roxana Petroleum Corporation the right to lease American oil fields. Albert Fall, late secretary of the Interior, had rendered this decision, but his successor Hubert Work to-dav allowed the company to obtain the lease on the ground that the lease affected private and not public lands.