AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1925, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[Reuters Teleurams.J ALARMING TREMORS. OTTAWA, March 2. Alarm was felt by many thousands of people during Saturday night throughout the province of Quebec, according to a .Montreal message. The tremors have not yet altogether abated. Reports from the outlying districts show that further damage was done than was at first thought, and they seem to establish the centre of the disturbances as in the Sagucnary river district. The old Jesuit missionaries’ histories record a series of earthquakes in much the same district, lasting for six months in the year 1603, which earthquakes lluug up tho present towering hilts in the Sagucnary district almost . instantly. It is said these are similar disturbances now, and they might demolish Montreal City. The. results, so far as are known, include two women’s death from shock. The Catholic Church of St, ITilarioii in Quebec, one of the finest edifices in Canada, has been destroyed. The telephones were cut off in some districts. PHOTOS BY' RHONE. WASHINGTON, March °. The regular instantaneous transcontinental transmission of news photo graphs over telephone wires starts on April 1, according to the officials of the American Telegraph and Telenfi.moCompany, who declare that the apparatus has been perfected, and their ' photographic service is being placed on i a commercial basis, especially design--1 ed for the newspapers. Photographs, t five by seven inches, can he transmitted in seven minutes. The cost will > by 50 dollars from New York to ( Hifi eago, and one hundred dollars fir tv. - New York to San Francisco. > The work of improving the t-ransuns- - sion lias developed rapidly. The first 1 tens produced only crude results. l-t.t __ . -t the latest pictures are onlv i.i.-uu-v guishable from the originals by .means I of a magnifying glass, though the same ■' general method is used, the < empany e claims that further develoauieot de- - .Lends upon the response from ihe s newspapers and business houses. s e PLANS FOR PEACE, o s WASHINGTON, March 3. c The Secretary of State, Mr Hughes • s the retiring chairman, presented the Goterning Board of the Pan American s Union with thirty-one projects, drawn V up by the American Institute of InII ternatioual Law, for the modification r - of international law as alfectiug this I s hemisphere. These projects will form a basis for discussion at the forth--11 coining international Congress of jurists at Rio de J'aniero. h Mr Hughes described the projects '* as embracing " a declaration of rights 0 and duties, of nations; statements of y the fundamental basis of international H ];iw, and of the fundamental rights 0 of the American Republics, and tho :t formulation of rules with respect to >s jurisdiction, international rights and duties, and the pacific settlement of international disputes.” “ Mi- Hughes declared, “Thanks to lc American initiative we are on the 11 threshold of accomplishments in tho most important endeavour of the human race, to lift itself out ot the sav- '• agery of strife in to tl*c domain of law.”

I’AN-PACT FIC CONFERENCE

t )BJECT RACIAL STUDIES. (Received this day at P, a.m.i VANCOUVER-, March 2. Plans for a non-political Pail-Pacific Conference of prominent nationals from seven countries which is to he held atHonolulu next Julv to discuss common problems arising from tho increasing intercourse ot peoples on the Pacific borders are announced by the executive committee of the United States group of which Mr Wilbur Ireland, who is president of the Stanford University will he Chairman. Tho Conference will he a preliminary to a permanent Pacific Institute to lie called biennially. It will he attended by publicists from the United States, Canada, Japan. Australia, New Zealand, China and the- Philippines. The meeting is expected to lead to the establishment of the fact of finding machinery which will malic scientific racial studies in accordance with a 10-ordinated plan of research in which all countries will cooperate on equal basis.