AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. EVADING DRY LAW. WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. Governor Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, addressing the Prohibition Conference demanded that President Coolidge take personal charge of the enforcement of national prohibition, as George Washington did in the days of the whisky rebellion. Mr Pinchot declared that Federal officials are encouraging the breaking of-tho law, and were responsible for liquor smuggling, and wero acting as graft collectors. He stated the law cannot be enforced until prohibition enforcement is taken from politics, and the responsibility centred in the President. He alone can meet the emergency. The liquor violators have thrown down the gauntlet to all law under tile Government of the United States. Mrs 'NYillebrandt, Assistant United Stales Attorney-General, who is in charge of tho prosecution ol the prohibitum laws declared penalties for violations are too mild, and she attacked the acts of foreigners, who were openly contracting to violate 1 nited States prohibition laws. FILIPINO UNREST. NEW YORK. Oct. 12. The New York Tunes Manila correspondent says: “The anti-American feeling which the Filipino leaders have engendered in the past few months, has y now extended among the populace to a greater extent than is generally realised. and the Philippines are living on a volcano of suppressed passions, which may erupt at any moment. Some quarters expect a physical outbreak against American sovereignty in the Philippines. The press, under Quedon’s control. is more outspoken than ever in its opposition to Governor Wood. The legislature, which is due to meet within three days, is expected to make trouble if Governor Wood attempts to carry through any programme. A manifestation of the popular feeling is the amalgamation of all the Filipino secret societies into one. It also knows that the constabulary is rapidly getting out of band, and the officers are luring control of their men. The Philippine Scouts, are also reported to b- wavering in their loyalty. A)old from Washington that a Government Investigation Commission has upheld General AYood in the dispute of July 17t:h, has augmented tho ill-feeling.

A AIE RIC A X SCI E XTISTS. EXPEDITION TO ANTARCTIC. NEW YORK, Oet. 14. A message from London, Connecticut says the Blossom, a three-masted schooner, under command of George Summons, a well-known scientist, whose stall numbers sixteen biologists and geologists, will shortly start on a twoyear cruise of the Antarctic Island, for the purpose of collecting specimens for the Cleveland Museum of natural history. The scientists will make a special "studv of the flora and fauna of the South Atlantic regions, which hitherto have rarely boon visited, save by hunters, whose accounts are considered romantic. but- unreliable. The Blossom will also visit islands on tlie AVest African Coast, restocking at Capetown, and shipping home the specimens collected.