AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1924, Page 1

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. MANY FIREMEN KILLED. NEW YORK, April 19 Afore than twenty firemen arc believed to have been injured when the front wall of a four-storey building collapsed suddenly .while the men were directing streams of water from the street level upon a terrific fire in a paper box factory located on the upper floor of the structure. The firemen and their apparatus were buried under tons of debris. The work of the rescue parties is seriously hampered by the collapse deranging the electric lighting supply, plunging the neighbourhood into darkness. It is also feared that other walls will collapse.

IMMIGRATION BILL AND THE VETO. WASHINGTON, April 21. It is stated on reliable authority that President Coolidge is hearkening to his political counsellers. He will not veto the Immigration Bill despite its Japanese exclusion feature, hut will defer action for ten days after its receipt so that the measure will become law without his signature. TJ.S.A. SOLDIERS’ BONUS. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). (Received this day at 9.45 a.mA WASHINGTON, April 22 Four and a half million soldiers will he entitled to consideration if the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill is finally passed b.v Congress, but nearly two hundred thousand have died siucc the war. The cost will he twenty-five millions sterling annually for twenty years.