AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

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[Reutriih Telegrams.]

TO WED CANADIAN*. DANISH I’ll INCH AUIUVES. OTTAWA, .J iitio fi. Prince Viggo, of Denmark, has arrived lor his marriage to .Miss Eleanor Margaret Oreon next Tuesday. CAUSE OF C'ANCEIC NEW YORK. dune !). According to a telegram from I’liiladelphia. the “North American.’' in in article that has heen with-held from publication for lo months “in the interests of science." says that the cause of cancer has heen discovered, and also a treatment which though still in an experimental stone, is producing remarkable results. The discoverer is Dr T. J. (Hover, a native of Toronto, who in an article, says that lie has established scientifically the fact that the di ease is due to a micro organism, and who has isolated the germ and proved hv a conclusive laboratory test, known

as the Koch cycle, its part as a causative factor. Dr (Hover has ((inducted research work in New York for foil" years. Regarding the cancer cure. Dr Glover is now making significant progress in perfecting a method of determining the presence of the microlx* organism in the blood in order to detect the disease in its incipient stage, thus affording a greater possibility of cure. CANADIAN ATTITUDE. [lt Kt’TKHS TkI.KOH AMS. J (Received this (lav at 12.30 p.m.) OTTAWA, .June 0. In the ( 'ominous, I’rcmier King declared the Dominion Government had never questioned the fact that when the Lausanne Treaty was ratified, it was binding on Canada, hut the reason the Government did not bring down the Treaty for approval in the House, was because the Government did not believe Parliament would approve of it. Government was required to tala* the responsibility for submitting to Parliament what it thought .should he submitted and for withholding what should lie withheld. EIGHT PERSONS DROWNED. NEW YORK, .June 0. A message from San Francisco states a huge wave ettpsised a motor launch at Halboa beach, half a mile out. Ol fourteen occupants, eight were drowned. The remainder gained the shore with diliieulty. BOYCOTT OF EVERYTHING AMERICAN. TDK ID, .June 0. The political ruffians who, on Saint'-, tiny, invaded the Hotel Imperial, ininterru|.ting the American dance, called a mass meeting at the Methodist Church, which adopted a resolution demanding that the churches under American aegis should not tolerate the exclusion clause and not only refuse further contributions from the I’nited States, hut expel till American missionaries from Japan. The newspaper “Yorod'/.u” announces that the boycott of American goods lias now extended northward to .Manchuria and the Island of Hokkaido. The cinema houses ill Tokyo have agreed to discontinue the showing of American films, after July Ist. U.S.A. REI'LY TO JAPS. (Received this day at 11 .‘Jo a.m.) WASHINGTON, June !». The Government's reply to Julian's formal protest against the Exclusion Clause will proha lily he handed !c Ambassador Hanihara on Tuesday. It is understood the Government will definitely and rlcarh state that there has been no violation of existing treaty obligations. The reply will be dignified and friendly but firm. A TER RIDGE PREDICAMENT. (Received this day lit I I .Jo a.in.) NEW YORK. Juiie ft. Six men winking over an auto plant at Chicago became trapped and their only ehiince of escape was the choice of dashing through the wall of flame nr wading ii vaL of boiling paint. Four chose the former and died. 'I he others waded’ the vat and escaped, though badly burned.