AMERICAN HEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 April 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN HEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION. NEW YORK, April 11, l ord. Director or the Pan-Pacific Union, advocated the creation of a Pacific League of Nations, out of which would naturally grow a world League. GUARANTEE OF PEACE. NEM’ YORK. April 11. George Taylor, of Sydney, said the Unity ol Britain and United States was the world’s best guarantee ot peace. He stressed the importance of wireless as the creation of public opin-~ « ion. Canadian budget. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). OTTAM’A, April 10 The Budget speech shows, the Canadian debt was reduced by thirty million dollars during the financial year ending March 31st. The surplus of the ordinary revenue over all items of expenditure is twenty million dollais. Tariff reductions on agricultural implements and lumbering machinery aie to be submitted to Parliament. The , . Canadian Government is firm in its" view that it is not bound by the British Lausanne Treaty with Turkey, and is therefore not required to sign, or ratify it. as the Dominion did not participate in the Lausanne Conference. BOOTLEG KING. NEM’ YORK, 'April 11. Mike Cusainano (a Sicilian), tho King of the 'American bootleggers, desires to leave America, not because of the severities of the law, which ho lias been Hooting for several years, but because of his 11-year-old daughter’s tears. Cusainano had been for long a prosperous hanker and really agent, when he entered the bootlegging trade, which netted him itt three years a fortune of a million dollars, blit bis money „ could not dry Rosa’s tears, when her V -■ .si hoolmtc.es pointed their fingers at her and sneered,’ remarking “Your Pa is tin' king of the bootleggers. He is arrested again.” Cusainano accordingly visited the office ol the Prosecutor, who is now preparing two further indictments against him. and he asked: “Would you drop the charges if 1 went hack to Sicily? There I would he the richest man in the village, and Rosa would never cry again.” It i.s understood that the charges will he dropped. Meantime Susamalio is preparing to sail, but in any event, —4, he is determined to quit bootlegging.