AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. CRI MP. IN U S. A. NEW YORK. November ID. Ciime conditions are such that the authorities have ordered policemen to work a seven-days’ week, to cancel their lunch hours and vacations, to wear their uniforms at' all times, and he ready for emergency cn!!-. The detectives arc to work 1G hours daily. Another 0(1,000 dollar robbery occurred at a- fur shop on Friday. PERU REVOLT. NEW YORK, Nov. 18. Reports from Peru indicate that President l.eguia has nipped a prospective revolt in the hud. though.despatches from Lima are conflicting. Discontent has been smouldering since duly, when Seiior Augusto Castro, a well-known editor, died aboard a battleship where the President had imprisoned him. Castro’s widow licensed Lcguia ol ordering his assassination. It appears the plotters stole the President’s note-paper, and forged military orders, calling upon the troops to support Senor Martinez, a member of the Supreme Court, in whose resilience the chief plotters were arrested. The bombardment of the President’s palace and the assassination of a number of the President’s leading followers had been painned. Senor J.eguia’s dictatorial method of deporting scores of his opponents is one oi the causes of the revolution and unrest.

DRY LAWS. NEW YORK, Nov. 17. President C’oolidge approves of the Treasury plans for the expansion of the coastguard for the prevention of rum smuggling. An expenditure is contemplated of twenty million dollars for new cruft and additional personnel.