AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 December 1924, Page 1

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[Rut-inns Tklkoiiamh.] JAP STEAMER A EIRE. VANCOUVER, December 30. A message from Los Angeles reports that the Japanese passenger steamer Ginyomaru bound from Yalpariso for Japan, is afire and calling for assistance, north-west of Acapulco, Mexico. She is asking that aid come quickly. All the passengers have been lowered in the lifeboats, live of the crew remaining aboard.

BRITAIN’S POLICY. WASHINGTON, December 29. In the twentieth century. Great Britain must choose between an association of nations anil the notorious doctrine of the balance of power, with its spectre of inevitable wars. So declared the British Ambassador, Sir Esmo Howard in an address before the American Political Science Association. He said; “The Fnited States, on account of its geographical position, might hold oil' from European entanglements. Due ol the chief duties of Britain in futuie would he to explain and interpret the necessities and difficulties of Europe to Americans and to the overseas dominions, while at the same time working for enduring peace in Europe.”

AMERICA AND JAPAN. NEW YORK, December 29. i Me Japanese and American War Departments have arauged lpi: an exchange of language officers, who will he attached to regiments in bufli armies for a period of six months. The Secretary ol War, -Mr Weeks, has approved of the plan, emphasising that this is the first such arrangement with Japan, and that it is indicative of a friendly feeling existing between the two War Departments and the armies. EMIGRATION TO CANADA. VANCOUVER, December 29. The Winnipeg Tribune says that a In,go colonisation scheme, sponsored by °the Roman Catholic Church, will settle some hundreds of British families on the farm lands of Western Canada next summer. . Thousands of acres of the prairie lands and a vast capital expenditure arc involved. An advanced stage in the negotiations has already been reached between the Catholic Church ami the Provincial Government and the Nation-1 al railways. Rev. Father Quinn, ol Humboldt, Saskatchewan, is now proceeding to Britain to establish an organisation. The settlers are to he selected front the agricultural classes of England, Scotland and Southern Ireland. McCOY CONVICTED. NEW YORK. December 29. Kid McCov, the ex-pugilist, was convicted at Los Angeles of manslaughter in connection with the shooting on Arnnist 12th. last of Mi’s Theresa Mors. T he penalty for manslaughted is fiom one to ten years’ imprisonment.