AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[ll KI’TF.HS TfXKCKAMS.] CHINESE IN CANADA. OTTAWA, June 15. July Ist, which is Dominion Day, will he observed by the Chinese residents throughout Canada a.s a day ol humiliation. in order to show their indignation at the new immigration regulations. which under the penalty of fines, imprisonment, or deportation, require the registration of all Chinese in Canada. with photographs and ] ersonai details. It is said that Hags will he How it at, half mast, and the Chinese homes will be festooned with mourning wreaths. MILLION DOLLAR COUP. NEW YORK. June di. News front Chicago states that five men and one woman had been attested and charged hy the police with being involved in the hold-up of a train on Tlnusday night. The robbers have been identified, and the arrest of others is expected soon. It is hoped part .it their loot, which amounted to over one million dollars from a registered mail will l.v recovered. MIGRATION TO HAWAII. WASHINGTON, June 15 ■pile first tangible economic result of the Japanese exclusion from America is a prospective migration from Porto llieo to Hawaii of labourers as an oflset against any impending labour shortage due to tile exclusion ol the Janattese.

The C.S.A. War Department is conferring with the Porto Rican officials and the American planters in Hawaii, and has tentatively approved of a plan for the transport of Porto llica labourers, thus relieving Porto Rica’s unemployment, and thereby reducing the labour surplus there, which exceeds four hundred thousand. it is understood that the Mar Department will recommend Congress to permit the use of army transports for the offering of passages to Hawaii at reduced rates. The War Department asserts that migration should he encouraged. from the standpoint of national defence, thereby overcoming the present racial preponderance of the Japanese in Hawaii, and making every immigrant a potential Amercan soldier. C.S.A. ELECTIONS REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES. WASHINGTON. June 11 The Republican Rarlv ticket is commented on favourably hy the Conservative Eastern Republicans hut it has not aroused much enthusiasm in the sections of the Party that are dominated hv the Progressives, and the Western Agriculturists. Disappoint in*, tit is expressed hy Republican Members of Congress that the Middle West and the Agricultural West are not

represented. Colonel Dawes. Republican nominee for Vice-President, is one ol Chicago’s leading financiers, lie is an open and bitter foe of organised Labour. He was the leader of the •'open shop" movement in Chicago. It is claimed by malty that his selection for VicePresident will serve to alienate the Labour vide in many districts. As the chief of a big financial organisatitin, lit? is unlikolv to attract the fanners vote, si nee many of the Western agriculturists blame the financiers in the big cities for their troubles. Impartial observers declare that it the Democrats name a strong ticket, and Senator La Collette runs as an independent candidate, the outcome of the campaign will he highly uncertain. This feeling is not shared hy President Coulidge, who. in a message of congratulation to Colonel Dawes, said: "It will lie it pleasure to he associated with you in the public service.” thereby a-siiming I lie certainty ol a .Republican victory. NEW YORK, June 1! For the first time in the history of the Republican Party, women sat in equality with men on the new Republican National Convention, which met ill Cleveland, and inaugurated a

programme for electing the ticket nominated by tlte Convention, which clo-eil yesterday. The assistant set—rctnrv will be a woman.

CLOUD BURST. NEW YORK, June 11

At least twenty-two people are dead as the result of a cloud burst, which wiped out two settlements, Carters Bluff and Hunter, near .Johnson City, in Tennessee.

CANADA'S WHEAT CROP. OTTAWA. June U

Reports indicate that Canada will have another bumper grain crop, the growing conditions being very favourabb' and there Is a noticeable absence of pests.

A DEMONSTRATIVE CROWD. SAN FRANCISCO, June, 15. i At San Pedro. California, a crowd of sailors and civilians angered by disparaging remarks allegedly made by radicals bout fort\-eight were killed in the explosion on the battleship. Mis-j sissippi wrecked the industrial workers of the World Hall, while an entertain-j meiit was progressing. Two girls who were serving coffee were scalded when the coffee urn was overturned and a man resisting the attackers was woundid. The crowd broke the window- and door- and throw the furniture and lixtures into the street where lliev. were burned.