AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

I USTItALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIAI/ON. THE MONEY MARKET. NEW YORK, Sept. 5. Tho £1 sterling is now quoted here at $4,60 0-10; another low record. EMIGRANT RUSH. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. Two thousand immigrants rushed to the harrier before midnight on September Ist. to bo at the barrier when*the September quota were ordered to lie admitted to-day, but fines of S2OO ter each person were imposed on the steamship companies. LORD BIRKENHEAD’S STRAIGHT TALK. OTTAWA, September C. Mr Martin Corby, of New York, in addressing the Canadian Bar Association at- Montreal said that the United States is satisfied to live her own life and not meddle with Europe. Lord Birkenhead immediately followed, bluntly suggesting tliaat this was what he said in New York in 1918, when he raised the fiercest turmoil in tno United States.

Lord Birkenhead, continuing, said

—“Now it appears, after all, that I was quite right. It was a bit late, but you know that we were very stupid when the great Peace Conference "as on at Versailles. If wo had’ only then realised unit tho united States intended to live its own life, we would have been ahead. If at Versailles we knew that the United States was to remain out, endless trouble in the world might have been spared. Wo should have known and been prepared for what the United States did with Armenia and what happened in Greece and in that caso tho Ruhr crisis might have been avoided. What I am saying, I am perfectly aware, will raise a storm, hut I am prepared to back up my statement at any time in any country. Either school of idealism which predated last election in tho u nited States is right or it is wrong. I am inclined to believe it is right.”