AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. AN INDISCBKKT Ml NIST KB. WASHINGTON, September 17. Presumably :is a result ol publicity in the morning papers, the President to-day deemed it advisable to issue an otiicinl denial of a rumour that the sudden recall from the Pacific (oast (where he had been campaigning on behalf of the President) of tile Secretary of the Navy. Mr Wilbur, was the result of inopportune speeches made by Mr Wilbur on such topics as Japanese exclusion and the necessity tor a strong American navy for defence in the Pacific. President ('indulge declares that he had .summoned Mr Wilbur to return because be requires immediate consultation with him oil the domestic concerns of the Navy.

Tile newspapers, however, think it strange that the President's .summons was so summary, that the Naval Scclelarv alnimb u-.-d a speech-making lour aml is now soeeding back to \\ nsliingtca by tlm fastest that train and aeroplane call carry him. lie experts to arrive al tlm end nf the week.

ITALIANS ATTACK LOI'ATELLI. NEW YORK. September 17. A patrolman defending Lieut 1.0-(.jileHi. (.jileHi. the aviator, from an attack by ,iml* ol Italians outside a thcalrc nas st(itil..'.l three times and seriously i ii| m ••• 1. Anthony Colillc. who .mil.-.-cl to Lciim a member ol tin* 1.W.W., was arrested. MINK DISASTER. NEW YORK. September 18. Twenty-three bodies have keen roi ovciv.l from the Keititilclcr mine. Twelve men are still missing.