AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. WORLD COURT. NEW YORK. June 23. President Harding's new stand regarding the World Court (as outlined in his recent speech on June 20), is greeted by the press according to political leanings. The Republican papers are praising, while the Democratic editors term it a surrender to the irrceoucila bios, and a* backdown ft uni the President’s announced attitude. There seems no doubt President Harding has keen forced to yield to the Republican National Committee and the group of National Senators headed bv Senator Borah. Senator Lodge-says the President’s new proposals are regarded as lessening the chance of the United States’ entry into the Court, inasmuch as the Senate is nit likely to agree that the Court should elect its own judges, being jealous of the right of the United States to a direct voice in filling the States’ vacancies. The proposals will also be bitterly attacked bv the Democrats. Observers believe' that President Harding is convinced that tho entire scheme of American entry into the Court will be defeated, and that he is now doing political jmrgling iu order to throw the responsibility for the lailutc on the Democratic opposition. AIR. RAIDS AND RADIO. WASHINGTON. June 22. The proposed new warfare rules, governing aircraft raids, and the radio in war, drawn up by an International Commission ol Jurists tit Lite Hague as provided by the- Washington Arms Conference, have been published. The recommendations.will probably form flic basis of a Treaty among the leading Powers. The report eomhuins airplane attacks such as Germany made on London and Paris, for the purpose of teiroris.ition. It proposes that those he banned entirely. ft. is also proposed that vessels and aircraft using the ratlin on the high seas to send military intolligeme for the use of a belligerent, thereby commits a hostile act, and may be fired °n■ . . . . Aerial bombardment is legitimate onlv when directed against- milita-.y forces, works, factories making munitions, and army supplies. The report deals lengthily with the control of the radio during wartime. ARBITRATION TREATY. WASHINGTON, June 23 The United States and Britain have renewed their arbitration treaty tor another five years. HOUSE OF COMMONS. *— IuJSTRALIAX AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. WOMEN AND ’VARSITY. LONDON, June 22. In tho course of a House of Commons debate on the second reading of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Bill, which provides for inereused grants to those Universities, NTr Butler said that it was Parliament’s duty to declare that the national Universities should be open to both sexes. Tho Labourites ami Airs AYintringlinm also protested against Cambridge’s refusal to admit women. Mrs Wiiitringliam declared that, the presence of women in Parliament had been extremely Istimulating. Cambridge was the only University m the Umpire to admit women. The segregation of the sexes was in the interests ol both. , . ... The-Rill was read a second time, "Pnom a division.