AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUBTRALIAN AND 'N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

STEAM KR SINKS

(Received this day at 11 .‘2d a.m.) NKW YORK, duly 27.

The excursion steamer (iratitmle, with two hundred people aboard. sank in me harbour at Norfolk. It n helicvcil most of the passengers were taken oil' in small 'bouts. 'I he (iratitmle was returnin'' from an excursion with the employees of the Texas Oil Company and families. Some of those, taken olf sought refuse on a .sunken karoo, standing on the deck deep in the water and it is thought possibly others were carried away by the tide. BRAZIL 11KB KI.LION. (Received this day sit 1t.2.7 ti.m.) NEW VOHK, duly 27. Advices from tv.io l’aulo state that a quarter of :i million civilians tire still there despite tin occasional bombardment from the Brazilian Federal-. ’Eevry nip'll t raids cause severe fit'lltini' in the suburbs. In the city fires tire frequent and food is scarce. The leading hotels have been transformed into hospitals, and some of the finest buildings have been badly damaged bv shells. Reports circulated in Uio de daneiro suggest the rebellion has spread to other cities, but the censorship is so tight that it is dillicult to obtain an idea of the general situation. ANTHRAX OUTBREAK. NEW YORK, duly 27. Anthrax is raging amongst the cattle in the State of Mississippi. Five negroes, stung by flies from carcases, have died. ANTI-JAP CR USADK. NEW YORK, duly 28. A message from Santa Rosa, California, states warnings to dapianc.se to vlocate their jobs as packers had been delivered in Mendocino County by a party of men in an automobile according to the sheriff. Ralph Tty rues. Advices from Tokio report that .Japanese newspapers are | uhlishing articles saying the Ku Ixln.x Klan are intimidating Japanese. The Sheriff investigated the circumstances and found notes reading: “Out with the daps, fire warning. K.K.K.’" Sout" .Japanese workers are said to have left for San Francisco. 1