AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[Reuters Telegrams.]

DENIAL BY ADMIRAL FIELD.

VANCOUVER, July 2

Vice-Admiral Field has categorically denied saving at Victoria that Canada should equip four cruisers, two for service in the Atlantic and two fit the Pacific. When his attention was called to Tuesday’s discussion in the Canadian House of Commons, Admiral Field said, that, in the course of an interview in Victoria, he was asked the question: "What do you think Canada should have in the way of a ttiivyr" He (Field) has replied: "1 cannot answer a question like that. I am not here to dictate to Canada, or to offer gratuitous advice on matters of policy. All 1 can do, in reply to such a question, is to lay the plain facts before you. as a sailor sees them, and leave Canada to judge. I will put it to you this way: If 1 were a Canadian farmer, depending for a living on an overseas market, or the head of a big commercial concern, to whom foreign trade meant everything. 1 think f should he anxious to see my trade routes adequately protected in time of war. As to what naval force such protection might entail it seems to he two cruisers on this coast would he invaluable. If occasion arose, they would afford protection to farmers, and grain manufacturers’ products to a point where other ships ot the British Navy could pick them up."

I.IQFOR LAW SENTENCES. NEW YORK. July 2. The man Means (whose trial for evading the 'Prohibition Law was cabled on July I) was fined ten thousand dollars and sentenced to two years. His colleague, .larncckc, was fined five thousand dollars, and also sentenced to two years. BRITISH SQUADRON "DRY". SAN FRANSICO, July Vice-Admiral Field has notified the British Consul-General. Mr Campbell, that ships of the British squadron will he dry during the three days spent at Shut Francisco in deference to the American law. The liquor store* will he settled when the squadron arrives on Monday.