AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1923, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ATLANTIC 'RECORD. NEW YORK, Nov. 2(i. America's biggest steamship, the Leviathan, has established a new world s record for westbound navigation of the Atlantic. She travelled from Cherbourg to New York in five days seven hours twenty minutes, and this bettered by 13 minutes the previous record hold by Ciuinrdor Mauretania. R RM-Kl' X XIX (J INC I PENT. SCHOONER'S CAPTAIN DEFIANT. VESSEL VISITED BY CROWDS.

fTteoeivecl this tiny at 0.0 st.m.V NEW YOU K, N nvember 2(1. McCoy, iituisiiT of flic British .schooner, Tomokn, which was seized hy the l* it it oil States revenue cutters six miles off the shore, is thirty-six years old and .American horn, lie maintained a defiaid attitude when arniiuged in the federal Court here. McCoy insisted that lie had a right to sell liquor anywhere outside the threemile limit. The captain and crew are held on five thousand dollars hail each. The sixty thousand dollars cash which the revenue oHirers took from the sehooiiei, were returned to McCoy when ho v,as taken to the Xew Jersey Federal Court to answer further charges ol rum running- He was ideas,si on fifteen thousand dollars hail. .McCoy declared that the crew of the Tomokn had not attempted to fire on th> revenue cutter, lie said: d am an American and would have thrown the crew overboard if they had tried to lire *’ The British vice-Consul, Mr l.eooarct Parrish, was present at the hearing, but took no ] art in the proceedings. Tomokn, "Well is tied up at the lower end or New York, is drawing thousands of spectators and the mciilenl. is treated in the press like an old fashioned pirate tale. Cd.r HELP. GERMANY DOES NOT WANT ' CHARITY. (Poccivcd this day at 10 mm.) NF,W 'YORK, Xov. 28. [t. is understood that Germany preparing to appeal to the Em-o States for a huge credit with winch to ■‘'Sr?,!;”;!;,.,»™ **««»** since the State Department dit.imilits readiness to aid the Germans as she helped the Russians. White House oflicials, 1 1 were surprised when informed that Germany would not ask tor tiiiu'o it whs cstmiiitcc! tlu.t * Sm dollars credit would he , iced, , and ollicials gravely -piestu > Germany would stand lh • - The correspondent adds that t -heal will present a bus,noss-lik, 1 i»sui. s Germany eiin ' , j reparaplication therein tlu , A! ii,. s , tions eontrovei ho |,l the under the ' resources, and as the only means ol a'tit. - ino in Germany.