AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1923, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. JAPAN* AND SOVIET. /Received this day at S a.m.) WASHINGTON*, Sept, 15. The Japanese Embassy stated the Home Government hud rejected Soviet relief, barring the steamer Lenin from Yokohama on Sept, 12th., because relief was allegedly intended only for labourers, and because the authorities suspected the presence of communistic literature aboard supposedly contained among the relief stiplies. The Japanese declared they were constrained not to use this relief, because they believed the Soviet Relief Mission regarded tnc disaster ns a providential opportunity for the furtherance of the revolutionary movement. OX THE OCEAN WAVE. (Received this dav at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 15. Because lie wished to see New York again Gerbault, an international tennis star, a descendant of French Breton sailor folk, arrived from Cannes, via J Gibraltar, traversing 5.G00 miles in 142 days single-handed, in a 30ft. lOin. racing cutter. Hurricanes enveloped the frail craft on three separate times, whipping it along at the rate of 70 miles (in hour, eventually sweeping his food into the sea. and forcing him to subsist on a cup of water daily, for the succeeding 20 days. Finally after being 43 hours unconscious, a Greek steamer passed and replenished his food, permitting him to proceed. During fair weather, Gerbault spent the time in day dreams, reading Kipling and Conrad. Then a fierce storm overtook him and a thirty foot wavo struck the ship which disappeared into a wave as tons of water thundered overhead. Then, with miraculous suddeness, the storm subsided. Gerabult now wishes to sell this boat j and buy another, with which to sail the South Seas, whither he is attracted hv current novels.

THK .SOI.AI! ECLIPSE. (Received tUiM (lay at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. IG. A message from Los Angeles, C'nlifornia states Professor Mnrfield, of Melbourne I'niversity is returning from an unsuccessful solar eel if sc expedition. He reported to tlic Australian Press Association that the perversity of road and atmospheric conditions frustrated the efforts of astronomers to observe the solar corona. Mnrfield states the sky was entirely overcast during the time of totality, thus preventing all observations except by myself, concerning tbe total light during the eclipse, which light I found to lluetu'lte just before totality. My equipment consisted of a polarizing coronagraph oquatorially mounted and fitter! with special devices for impressing the standard intensity scales on plates, also a diffraction.’'grading spectroscope and objective grating for analysis of the corona’s light. We arrived in good time but were unable to go to the place o'ri gmnlly planned owing to poor roads, lienee were forced to locate fourteen miles to tho south-east, the attempt ultimately failing because the sky was overcast during the crucial moments. KMJ KLUX KLAN. (Received this day at 8 a.m 1 NEW YORK, Sept. 15. A message from Oklahoma City states that tho entire State of Oklahoma was placed under martial law at midnight by Governor Walton n a light against the Ku Klux Klim.