AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS

| BY TEI.KtiHAI’II—PKIt PUKES ASSOCIATION.] BIG LINER SEIZED. WASHINGTON, .March 10. Federal Agents seized the, Royal Mail Gtinard steamer ‘'Ordiitia” following the discovery of liquor aboard, valued ten thousand dollars. The Government immediately began foileiture prucet(lings of ollieials regarding her. o! the .saute category as a rum-runner • ■Alight within the twelve miles limit. The agents also arrested eight of the e;ew, including two oflicnl's. This seismic is the first of its kind. Ti erefore. diplomaiie mtgot unions are i-onsideretl iineerlain. A STEAMER SINKS. NEW YORK, March 19 Twenty-six mem tiers of the crew of the steamship Santiago which is reported sunk oil’ Cape I bitterns, are believed to have been lost. Wireless reports stale that the steamer Cissy picked up a lifeboat with eleven survivors. No other boats were seen. FRESH REVELATIONS. WASHINGTON. Mur. It 1:1. Edward McLean, the millionaire! newspaper publisher, np;i--:t:vd ? >• *i oc• . the Senate Oil ('iiminiitee. Sena I - r . ll.add has succeeded to the ( hai: iiian- 1 ship of the ('oliilnil t"e. McLean testified that at ex Minister Eall’s rejties!, he had iui om-rlly allirmed that he had loautd Tall 1 <‘- 000 dollars, thus implying that Eal! thereby sought to eom-eal the lari that niottev came Irom an oil magnate. The publisher, after denying he hud iiiiv personal interest m oil. ident tiled Attorney General l)au_herty a-, the >o called •‘Prineipal,” hut saul he was nnto explain tic- ntr-aning of the telegraphic phrase “Better access to White House."