AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. I’.S.A. PLAYING IMPORTANT PAJIT NEW YORK, Jan. Id Alter his return home Sir Kric Gedties will emphasize the opinion that America is pla yiug an important role in the world in trying to solve her own vast problems. According to a statement he made during an address to the Pilgrims Society the retiring Bri-ti-li Ambassador said that nothing was so important as complete and frank co-operation between the Englishspeaking people to provide a nucleus lor a world that js to arise front the ashes of the world war. AY HAT SAVED BERLIN FROM CAPTURE. NEW YORK, Jan. Hi. Mai shul Koch personally, saved Berlin from invasion by the allied troops, according to a statement by General Allen, a former commander of the American Army of ■ Occupation. He reveals that just before the armistice in 1918 the matter was discussed and Both conferred with Generals Haig, Pershig and Retain. Haig took up tho attitude that there had been sufficient saeriliecs of men and the Germans were already routed. Petain favoured a more decisive defeat of the Germans. The gigantic task of holding the vast territory across the Rhine, therefore, was the deciding factor in saving Berlin front capture.

i WHAT PROHIBITION’ HAS 1)0X1 J WASHINGTON, Jmi. 16. ! "Four years of national prohibition lias brought happiness to thousands of homes, helped to solve the unemployment problems and to increase the consumption of home-made products. It lias lengthened the terms of education and has cleaned up the main streets of the cities," declared the Prohibition Commissioner, Mr Haynes on the fourth anniversary of constitutional prohibition. NEW AMERICAN LAW. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 Approval has been given by the U.S.A. House Immigration Committee to an Immigration Bill clause barring Orientals from the United States. It stipulates that no alien who is ineligible for citizenship shall be permitted to enter the country to take j up permanent residence.