AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS

AUBIUALUN ANI) S 7 CARLE ASSOCIATION CANADA'S NAVY. OTTAWA. August 22. SlHiaking at a dinner in his huuAdmiral Field strongly contested the view that naval defence could be effected by aircraft and submarines. Surface vessels would be. necessary so long as trade was lurried by suilacc craft. Ho stressed the need of maintaining defensive measures on trade routes.

Premier King in proposing the least ol the Admiral, said some people arc apt to criticise Canada’s Navy, hut he declared the Canadian Naval service is new blood in a great naval power, which meant so much in the history of the world, but should a critical situation ever ttri.se the new blood in any department of our national life may be expected to do its part in a manner which will do credit to the whole world.”

CABARET SHIP STORY. NEW YORK, August 23

Tlio floating earahol ship, wliit-li was reported to he beyond the twel vo milt* lim.il, Dll' New Volk, tin* scout 1 of hilarious drinking parties, is now admitted to lie a myth by the paper which printed the story. The reporter rcs|M>nsilile has boon dismissed from the stall'. MISSIXO AYIATOI!. WASHINGTON, Alio. 23. According to a message from Ideal. Smith, the American aviators in Grccnland believe l.oeatelli. who accompanied them oil the hop Irom Iceland, and who has not arrived at Frederieksdals, failed to net through the dense fog and never passed Cape I'arewell. N.Z. PROFESSOR. WASHINGTON. Aug. -A. A message from Seattle states Doctor MacMillan Drown (Chancellor of the. University of New Zealand) >areturned there. lie is studying ti< islands and stretches of the mainland of the North Pacific coast, with the oliiect of investigating the origin oi the natives or the Pacific Ocean to confirm the findings of Cook. Vancouver. I’otlock and other early explorers. He stated that, he believed that because the coast Indians do not make pottery or grow cereals, they cairn- to America hundreds of years before. Indians, a declared lie found in clo-e resemblance between Coast Indians, llawaiians and Maoris of his own country. ASSOCIATION FOOTRALL. VANCOUVER. Aut;. - ;> - The Corinthians, liritish amateur footballers, ' touring Canada, Relented the All Star Canadians, "ho just returned from Australia, by two to one. SEARCH FOR ITALIAN. (Received this day at 10.23 a.m.) WASIIINOTON. August 21. 'Hie American “World livers arrived at Irigtut, Greenland, on Sunday. Two j,lanes made the jump from Fredericksdale to Irigtut in two hours and fifteen minutes. The Army Air Service was informed to-day that a radio message sent by .Lieut. Smith, the commander ol the flight squadron, hut it. made no mention of Lieut. T.ocatelli, the missing Italian aviator. The cruiser Milwaukee, however, reported to-day that the search for the Italian had Iwn fruitless.