AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FITE BE OF BRITAIN. OTTAWA. September .'). “There are no young Liberals being Imrn in Britain to-day. Things tire changed since the days of Gilbert and .Sullivan, when every young Briton was either a little Liberal or a little Conservative. The babies ol the luturc are destined to be Conservatives or Labourites." So asserted Mr Malcolm .MacDonald, the son of the British Premier speaking at Montreal.

Jle continued: "The Labour Government is the beginning of it long Labour rule. Labour will do well next election ; but I do not think it will get it clear majority. There will be a puzzle between the Labourites and the ('oiiservatives."

He did not believe the Liberals would figure much, or that Mr Lloyd George would ever return to power. The star in the Conservative firmament. he said, would be Mr Winston Churchill, whom Mr Malcolm MacDonald believes one day will be the C onservative Leader.

DARING BANK BDRBF.BY. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). (Received this day at S a.m.) NEW YORK. September 3. Five bandits entered the defier.son batik at Springfield. Illinois, alongside police headquarters. One asked lor the change of a five dollar bill and while tile cashier was getting this, revolvers were pi.aimed. A few minutes later the robbers emerged, carrying as loot, twenty-six thousand dollars and the Bank's firearms. They escaped without tt shot being fired.