AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION, COMIC OPERA WAR. NEW YORK. Sept. 23. In Oklahoma a Ku Klux Klan war has opened like a comic opera, j The legislators having called themsolves together to impeach Governor Walton, the city awoke to find three , hundred guardsmen patrolling the V State capital. The stores were closed, and many windows were barricaded, like a city besieged. There was a battery of French ’75 gmis’iii the main square. These looked ominous. The insurgents had timed the opening of the Legislature for twelve o’clock. They strolled from their hotels. They were, however, joined hy small jßr parties of guardsmen, armed with bayonets, who followed them along the (streets towards the capitol. They * found the doors locked. The Colonel commanding read an official (warning against any meeting, while the soldiers overawed the gathering, which melted silently away. AMOY STRIKE CALLED OFF. < A NEW YORK, Sept, 26. - Tim Amoy Chamber of Commerce induced the longshoremen and stevedores to call the strike off. The strikers were convinced that the strike would inflict suffering upon the Chinese population, while the Japanese would be relatively unaffected. The Japanese sailors and marines are continuing to protect the Formosans, while the Chinese are retaliating by a continuance of the an t i-J apa ncse boycott.