AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CMIILE ASSOCIATION. AN AMERICAN 'IT I B FAT. WASHINGTON. .Inly 38. America has sent a note to Teheran threatening to break relations with I’ersia. unless the guilty are punished lor the murder of Consul Rubric. Tlr note demands a guarantee on protection of American ollieials in I’ersia.

SUGGESTED All! TBAVICI

(“Sydney Sun” Cables). (Received this day at 13.30 p.m.) VANCOUVER. July 33. Sir Keith Smith says England Australia b.v airship in ten days, is icnmincreiul possibility. Within tv years, great airships, now beiii” bui by Vickers, for this service, "ill u crude oil, instead of petrol, avoidii the danger of tire, one of the create hazards of the former type of airshi| Vickers’ airships will have a eapaeii for one hundred passengers and ha; gage. The ships already built will I used for experimental flight. .Meat while Vickers are constt'iming two a vessels to inaugurate the actual so vice.

BRAZIL REVOLT BROKEN. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). (Received this day sit 1.30 p.m.) RIO I>E JANEIRO, July 28. (iovcrnmeiit claims that tho rebels have capitulated and lied after doing great damage to Sao Paulo. During the bornbnrdment, more titan thirty tbousaml Federal troops were engaged over the week end. Placards announce the Federnls have occtijiicd the city of Itu fifty miles northwest, and are endeavouring to cut oil' the retreat of the. revolutionary forces.

AEROPI A NLv FATA LOT. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON. July 38. Osman Belthor was so pleased with his new aeroplane that he had invented at l>os Angeles, that lie loaded his wife and son and niochanie alsiard tor the trial flight. A crowd of several thousand ] eople cheered them as they ascended, hut after ten minutes the wings collapsed and tin- quartet we:c instantly killed. This i- the fust instance of an entire family being wiped out hy an aeroplane accident.