AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

Lft Kerens Telegrams.]

THE U.S.A. NAVY

■ NEW YORK, May 1. Mr Butler, vict’-Clisiirma 11 of the JloiiNo Couiuiittcc on National Affairs Ilf's introduced a Bill to renppropi into (i.oOl) thousand dollars to alter the gun turret elevations of certain battleships, (cabled April 2.1 and June 1!) the last). He declared that American experts in international law affirm the I'nited States Inis the right to make changes despite British opposition under the Washington treaties. Air Britten stated Hie range of the American guns "as inferior to those of the British. Mr Wilbur has conferred with President Coolidge concerning Admiral - . Coonta’s report dealing with the Atlantic and Pacific Fleet manoeuvres (rubied Feb. 10). It is understood Admind Ccontz indicated tint there is a shortage of ships adequate for the exercise of the commaml. 'flu; tenders and supply ships are insullicicutly speedy to accompany the slowest ves sels of the lighting licet, that there arc considerable defects in design and some faulty atluiinisfiation of many vessels of the licet.

U.S.A. ANGLICANS. NEW YORK, May 2. A telegram from Philadelphia states that the Rev. Barry, of New York, addresing the Episcopal Convention announced a plan whereby the Anglican Church might he reunited to the Church of Rome. Rev. Barry Mlg. gested that the Roman Catholic Church recognises the validity of the Anglican Ministry, and its sacraments, while the Anglicans, reciprocally, would accept the Primacy of Peter, the allocation of all jurisdiction to the Popp, and also the recognition of the Pope’s infallibility, not on the basis of personality, hut upon that of the revelation of the divine will, authenticated liv the ap| nival of the Church body.

BRAZIL COPYING U.S.A. RIO JAXIERO, May I

The Brazilian newspapers are urging the exclusion of the Japanese, following ufon the American action. The Brazilian Academy of (Medicine has adopted a resolution to restrict the Japanese lo five per cent of the* present Japanese population of Brazil. The Japanese have established in B: a. hit a very successful colony at Sao Paulo where they are prosperous rice planters. *

TERRIBLE TORNADO. MOW- YORK, -May 1. Tin l Atlanta storms (cabled April .'lo' assumed unprecedented proportions , wiion tlie tally was receded. So far -.108 (load liavo boon aconntod for, mostly womon and oliildron. Approximately five liuiiilrcil were injured. The damage probably will exceed ton million dollars. The tornado swept .-oven states with devastatin'; violence, leaving a path of desolation a thousand miles loii';. Its destructive force, however. seems to have been already spent, it having diminished upon reaching Virginia, after (‘orbing l.ouisiana and Arkansas. The deacT. injured and many of those who even escaped unhurt, were lifted hv fierce winds and hurled hundreds of feet. Entire communities in certain sections were destroyed. Armed guards are now pa trollin'; the hardest hit localities, while relief is bein'; rushed hither under extremely adveise oireumsti'iinos. Torrential rains are Hoodin'; the roads and destroying bridges, (making eoiiimiiniiation and transportation dilfieiilt or impossible.

STOCK DISEASE LOSS. SAN FRANCISCO. May 1. Although the State ollicials announce tliat the hoof and mouth disease situation is encouraging, nevertheless the lasses already recorded are caii-iim genuine alarm, not only among stock men, but among merchants. Tentative figures indicate that at least 00,A OIH) sheep, cattle, hies and goats have been destroyed within six months. The butchers meantime complain that the people are not buying meat, owing to epidemic hysteria, while the embargoes set up by various States (as cabled April 2Hh), have reduced drastically all shipments, including farm produce. A continuation of such embargoes seems probable, and this will cause losses of minions of dollars when the height of the fruit shipping season is reached. The quarantines likewise have seriously reduced the- tourist trade, with consequent losses to innkeepers and dealers in motor accessories. An oil company attributes /iO per cent of the decrease in petrol sales to the exigencies of the disease.