AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. HOD IKS RECOVERED. NEW YORK, Sept. EL Forty bodies have been recovered from the Kemnicre.r mine. PHIU.fI PINES TO GO DRY. [Reuters Tel eg rams .] (Received this day at S a.in.) MANILA, Sept.. I'J. Advices have been re eived that it is intended to extend the American prohibition law to the Philippines. Cables from the American Com-hI-Geue.ru 1 at Hong Kong notifying the amended law providing against vessels tarrying lic|iior is to he made applicable to the Philippines. The steamer Eaipsc s i f Russ-:a arlivcd without any liquor aboard. PROVOKING JAPAN. NEW YORK. Sept. 18. The New York “World,” in an editorial on Mr Will.ur's recall from California by President Ccolidge, says: ‘lf it is not due to the character of the .speeches tin the Pacific const, as "White House affirms, it should have been. Only meagre reports of these spcc.he; have reached the Atlantic coast, but these inlihinte that Mr Wilbur has been talking for a big l'.avy in the beststyle of the Jingo. All of this was diverted, pf course, at Japan, without the slightest provocation. President C'oolidge cannot afford to have his administration identified with truculent bluster of this kind, hut lie seems indifferent.”