AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. WILL NOT SEIZE SHIPS. WASHINGTON. June 23. The Prohibition Bureau has announced that foreign ships bringing liquor into American waters will not be seized for toe present, the Government considering tho seizure of liquor alone sufficient', because tho foreign steamship lines are only seeking to make a legal test of the law. The Government also desires not to cause any serious complications with foreign powers. HAG EE TRIBUNAL. NEAY YORK, June 20. The four United States representatives on the League Permanent Court of Arbitration have received Irom the League of Nations Council a request for a new nominee to succeed the late Brazilian Judge Barbosa on the World Court. This direct communication is interpreted as a reflection on the State Department which last year failed to foiward a similar notification promptly to the individual representatives. NEAY YORK TRAGEDY. NEW YORK, Juno 2-> Two ears of an elevated train toppled off the railway structure, and fell thirty feet to the street at the busiest shopping corner in Brooklyn, while the train was crossing.

The first reports stated that six were dead, and a score were injured. It is believed that the accident was due to the rails at a sharp curve spreading under intense heat.

The casualties in the New York elevated railway accident were eight dead and 71) injured. TORNADO DISASTER. NEW YORK, June 2(5. Telegrams from St. Paul, Alinnesota, report that tornadoes and rain storms are sweeping the central and northwest portions of the State. I hey have killed 20 persons, wrecked the telegraph service, devastated tho standing crops, and capsized passenger boats. AIR HARDING’S DECLARATION. NEW YORK, June 26. President Harding, speaking at Denver. said the prohibition issue was fast becoming to be recognised not. as one between the "wets” and the “drys," lmt as one involving the question of whether the country s laws can and will he enforced. He quoted his previous declaration that tho Government means to enforce it, and declared his conviction, not only that t lie Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution will not he repealed, hut that, whatever changes may he made they will represent the purpose of Hie effective enforcement rather than any moderation, of the general policy.