AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

CANADA AND TREATIES. GOVERNMENT'S ACTION APPLAUDED. ["The Times” Service.] yßecnivod this day at' 9.2.3 a.m.) LONDON. April 9. The Toronto correspondent of tli*

• .lines” says the .Manitoba "I 1 ree Press" applauds the attitude of the King Government over the Lausanne Treaty, declaring the decision not to ask Parliament to authorise ratification constitutes a. practical application of first class importance of the new procedure in the treaty making bv liritish nations. The "Press” pain!-; out the principle behind the new theory is far reaching, as it will enable one or more of the liritish nations to contract treaties with other c.iuiitries without involving other HriliG, nations not particularly coneern-

T|,e .Montreal "Gazette” contends that as the treaty is not of special interest to Canada, the Canadian Govern incut properly reposed lull confidence in the liritish representatives. Some people have the idea that Gax*ada should act as a world power and

insist upon bating a voice in every impnrtanl mallei. thereby attracting international attention. 'lbis is not necessary, either tor Canada’s status, comfort or growth.

RODMAN!AX ENGINEER'S DUKIM CTIOX. NEW YORK. April 9. Dimitri Lonnovici. a Roumanian engineer, has written to the United States, liritish. Dani-ii ami Canadian Governments claiming that an ice cap ten thousand feet thick will crush Greenland and throw the world "It its axis, lie proposes to Rudd a dn.n across the Fury and Herb, Straits between the Ray of Bothnia and the Ton Channel, throwing the arctic cunen north and along the Gulf Stream to reach Greenland and melt the ice.

INCREASE KOR RAfl A\ A\MEN

.Received this day at 9.0 a.m.) XKAY YORK. April 9

A five per cent, wage increase, affecting half a million western Amelina.! railway employees, is announced in Chicago. The increase will “ fifty billion dollars to the, rad.oa.is payrolls.