AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

1 itv i i:i,i:(.i:ai')i -hep. chess association.j MR W. HUGHES. VANCOUVER, March 5. The ex-i’remier ol Australia, Mr W. M. Hughes' lirst speech in America < was an eloquent defence of the White > Australian policy, which, he declared. 1 had proved its own value in Atistra- 1 lia's present development without such 1 serious rme problems as would have ’ resulted if coloured nationalities were 1 admitted. Mr Hughes added that the 1 Orient formerly despised and ignored the west, hut Mow It despised. litlt no longer ignored it. The Oriental population was increasing at a tremendous rate. This was a problem for Australia and (amnia. blit mere so lor Australia. The White Australian policy was not aimed again-t any country. The l’arilic had become a strategic world, wherein Canada and Australia were stations separated bv HOIK) miles. There was something exhilarating about this. hut. also a menace. J’ROIIIBITION IN F.S.A. HUGE LIQUOR FLEET. NEW YORK. March ti. With 21 vessels carrying an excess estimated at two hundred thousand eases ol contraband liquor already anchored in the so-called •■Rum Row.” 12 miles elf the shore here, the Customs ollicials have reported that New York’s spring liquor frvshlit is a bout to begin It is estimated that eight million dollars will he carried to sea when this liquor has been disposed 01. Tlie Federal ollicials attribute the presence of the large rum fleet to an expectation of the Anglo-American liquor treaty's ratification soon. in view of the long distance necessary tor operation now between tlie vessels and •shore. The revenue officers find the rum- • runners are cver-incrcasiugly wary and , skilful. , The British steam yacht- Liar. the t reputed Queen of the Rum fleet, has re-appeared elf Rum Row. 12 miles out, with twenty other vessels. the coastguard estimate these ships carry one hundred and sixty thousand cases, valued at 8.000,001,) dollars. : CANADIAN ROLLING RESTORED. NEW YORK. -March ti. The date of Hie plehiseiie oil the li- , quor question in Saskatchewan. ( aiiada. is set for duly 21st. In a Rill introduced by the Goveriiment'of Saskatchewan ill the legislature, the voters v, ill he asked lo vote for or against Ihe present Temperance Act. MEDICAL BCNGI.ERS. NEW YORK, .March -V A telegram from Chicago says I hat the fake physicians scandal took a curious turn when Dr Hodman, a noted Boston surgeon addressing a convention id surgeons there. declared: “There are seven thousand 1" pi'als in the Fuiled States and 550.1100 patients healed annually, but although this is tli,* age of hospitals, must ol them are inelfeioni. An investigation conduct ,-d into the treatment of four hundred cases of Sarcoma by men with degrees and apparently adequate legitimate prnlcssional training, shows that practically every one ol the eases re presented a mistake ill tlie diagnosis. j|.,.gs were ampui-ntcd "hell ihev should not have been. Patients died without ihe operating surgeons know ing whether they should have lived or died.”

|lr Ccdman. while bemoaning tli" charlatanry among Hie indii idnnls posing as legitimate physician-, condemn od even more thoroughly ihe :11(•I *i - eioncy among the ranks of the legitimate pathologists, surgeons and physicians. i'll, S< 'A NDALS. WASHINGTON. March I ’resident (.'eolldge'- name "as again mentioned ai iho Oil Investigation liter. Senator Heflin referring to some t oiled telegraphic correspondence involving notes and the newspaper publisl.ei (cabled March 3rd). Senator Heflin declared lie believes the messages, v nirh mentioned a so-called principal refeired to the President.

The message stated ilmt the priaeij al snid: “There will be no disturbances. rad i;n |« .signal ions, although some real lion must, lie expected from political al racks.’’

The democrats are now only attempting to involve the nation s eliicl ol the Executive, thus indicating dearly the oil inquiry has lost- every aspect of a in i.-partisan enquiry. H is war to the limit between the Republicans and Democrats, although it is apjiaient both parties are sufficiently involvoil.