AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1923, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION CANADIAN STRIKE. OTTAWA. July 19. Lour thousand Cape Breton miners voted in favour of a continuance of the strike, in defiance ol the order u! Louis, tno President of the l nited Mine Workers Union who cancelled the district charter .ami instructed the -Hikers to resume.

THE CHESTER CONCESSIONS. ■.Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 19. The State Department, answering the National Popular Government League’s questions concerning the Chester concession .cabled on Nov Itli) denied that the concessionaries had been given moral political as-ur-ances that in the event of a dispute the United States Government would he bound to defend the validity of the concession. The reply asserts that the United States Government took no

part in the negotiations, and concerns itself only with the maiiileiianee of the open door. The League s membership include- eminent educationalists, lawyers, labour leader-, and publicists, all of whom regard t‘ - denial as tin-

most sweeping and explicit, "hieli ihe State Department lias matte. ARBITRATION TREATY. WASHINGTON, July 20 The ITaiieo-Ameiie.-iit arbitration Treaty of 19J3 has been renewed for another period ol live years.