AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[Reuters Telegrams.] WORLD FLIC;I IT. SA NFRANCISCO. Sept, i I A telegram from San Diego says; The round the world airway in fuH.ro will follow approximately the same routing as used hy the Flitted Slates world girdlers. Lieut Smith, Commander of the flight. declared that travellers desiring tu see all the .scenic air Wenders of the world with a combination til land and water planes, would best use the cuur-e inaugurated hy his parly lie said that the aviators would next jump to Santa .Monica, enroute for Seattle, where their journey ollieially ends.

SAX FRANCIS(>, .September 2s. The three F.S.A. Army world fliers returned to Santa Monica, California, to-day, six months and six days after they left on the world trip. AMERICAN NEC ROES. SOFT!I AFRICAN'S I’RAISK. NEW YORK, September 2:i. The Rev Kidwell. from Johannesburg, who has heen touring Canada and til? ("nit.'d States, for the special purpose of studying the conditions of the American negroes, sails front London hy the I’erenganiit to-morrow. Interviewed by Reuter, lie loudly praised the negro educational institutions in this country. "They are being educated on masse," he said, "and are becoming good citizens. I’ve hoard Garveyism, hut the cry of 'Africa for for the Africans.' is a bubble that soon will he pricked. Educate,l negroes ridicule the idea and regard the leaders of this movement as misguided fanatics.'’

Discussing prohibition. Rev Kidwell declared it was lirmly established in the I'uitcd States, ami that he regard ed the present outburst ol bootlegging and illicit drinking as merely a tempornrv evil that would eventually die out. He was much impressed hy the sentiment of American people towards Britain, lie declared; "'file I ailed States is mere sympathetic towards Britain than are three-fourths of the people of South Africa.

F.S. J EDGE'S DECISION. VANCOFVER. Sept. 21. At Seattle. 2d Chinese who were denied admittance l»v the immigration authorities were granted writs of hahaes corpus by Federal Judge Neterer. who held that the 192! I'uitcd 'Slates Immigratim Law does not abrogate the tirovisions of Treaties between China and Fnitcd States. This d-cisiun is the first judicial interpretation ol the exelusive provisions in Hie new Ait. p>‘lalitig to Chinese and marks the success of the Chinese efforts'to make secure the privileges eiijoved under the Treaty provisions, during the past •!!> veal*.