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Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1923, Page 2

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. AMERICAN CONFLICT OF VIEWS. NEW YORK, October 28. Flit; “New York World” Washington correspondent says:—Distinct con. grcs-ional opposition, especially from Hie irate Jrrccoiicilables. must be expected to Air Hughes’s acceptance of the French reservations on the repar-' ation- sou],‘incut plan, by which the expert- committee becomes an adjunct of the Reparations Commission and the Treaty of Versailles. The Irreconcilable senators, whom the correspondent-Jp-interviewed, declared a bitter revival of the Treaty of Versailles light will occur immediately Congress is convened in December. The objectors state that-, since Franco controls the Reparations Commission, no independent findings can be expected, and Air Hughes’s original proposal is effectively nullified by the French action. High Governmentofficials, meantime, insist upon France’s good faith, and state the French reservations are not a nullification. They indicate tlie Experts Committee will onlv l:o concerned with Germany s capacity to pay. and once this is determined. it will have a moral influence upon M. Poincare’s dictum that the committee must not reduce Die total of the reparations. HUGE ROBBERIES. NEW YORK, (let. 29. Declaring that they are menaced with extinction, due to the unprecedented number oi hold-ups and robbetic- from jewellers’ simps in the last nine months, in which the losses exceed five hundred thousand dollars, a protective committee, representing every branch of the jewellers’ trade ill New' York, has been organised. It lias voted a subscription of 2-10 thousand dollars to be spent on the protection ol their members. One of the simplest otfoet ive methods of robbery has been to burl a stone wrapped in a newspaper into the simp windows in broad daylight, and seize a tray of gems, and tlii'ii flee into automobiles. Few such robbers have been apprehended. The jewellers are considering the installation of steel wire glass windows, and other devices to save their property. THE TWELVE MILE LIMIT. . - “Thk Times’’ Slrvr-k. j 'Received this day at 9.0 a.in.) LONDON, October 29. The discrepancy between the announcement ill America that is likely to agree to tin- twelve mile limit and the semi-oHh itd denial issued in London, seems to be explained by an authoritative American statement publMied in the “Times” as follows: “As Lord Cnrzoii previously declared. there was no chance of Britain agreeing, in any circumstances whatever. to t hi' twelve mile limit. Tho Briii'h denial is natural enough but whal American reports attributed to Britain tv a- her willingness to. accept the (Melee miles limit in principle. Ame ten is not askng Britain to accept it in principle, but as a special privilege to cope ttiili Hie liquor smugglers alone.’’

The statement add- Hun if such an agreement is re-adied (here i- lit He doubt that tlie American Senate .will meet Brit ish vessel- need •: but it is considered that Britain ought to accept tbe bargain oil the lines oi .Mi .Hughes s proposal. fiFie three mile limit could be specially safeguarded by a definite insertion in the preamble to the AngloAmerican Treaty, which she de.si:e.i.