AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION RUM RUNNING. OTTAWA, Oct. 16. Toronto reports state that Americans are directing virtually the entire Canadian and American rum-running industry, according to a statement made hv Commissioner Williams, of the Ontario Provincial police, in refutation of a charge that the Canadian bootleggers are keeping the United States supplied with liquor. RUSH TO U.S.A. WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. Efforts to prevent the recurring monthly rush of emigrant transports to (he United States will he made by Mr Earley (Chairman of the United States Shipping Board) at the forthcoming trans-Atlantic passenger Conference at London. AM E 1! ICA X SP EEC II IE VINO. NEW YORK. Oct. 15. The conviction that Britain. the United State*, and probably France, > v ill stand for democracy against the wave of autocracy which is spreading in Europe and the world, was expressed by Mr Lloyd George when addressing the Chicago Association of Commerce. He asserted that democracy, after its great triumphs in the world war. was imperilled through a movement to ho seen in the guise of dictatorships in Europe. Referring to the prosperity and tranquility in the United States and the distress in Europe. Mr Lloyd George said: “Ultimately Europe will find a way along the path of peace, unite arid brotherhood.”

BIG FLOOD DAMAGE. 'Received this day at 0.45 a.m.) NEW YORK. October l". Two persons are known to he dead awl many unace.' 'till ted for, and twe thousand homeless in Oklahoma city as the result of floods which began to recede on Tuesday. The property damage is estimated at two ami a half mfe lion dollars. TfI.DEN AS CINEMA ARTIST. NEW YORK, Oct. 17. William Tilden (tennis champion) has joined a. cinema company in New York State, and has abandoned tennis for tins season. MR LLOYD GEORGE. NEW YORK. Oct. 17. Mr Lloyd George has cancelled a day's engagements at Chicago owing to the continuance of a slight temperature. His doctors ordered him to remain in bed for a day. He may tie able to speak to-night.