AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1925, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

(."Sydney Sun” CatHesj. ANULO-AM E 111 CAN CO-OPERATION NEW \ OUK. March Jo. Lord Thompson, who was Air Secretary in Mr Ramsay Macb'unaiu's Cmimim’l . addresMug Ihe SI adonis’ Asscmbß at the Carnegie Institute.o! Icchnologv at I’itsburgli. advocated world wide Ajiglo-.tmepeaii co-operation in the development ol commercial air routes. ißrilaan, he explained, was working eastward, because of the necessity of drawing together the component parts of the Empire, but the most bcnciieiai results would follow world wide cooperation between the nations. The British were working eastward, through India, to Australia and the Far East. The Americans were working eastward across the Pacific. Thus, between them, they were girdling the globe. The joint control of the upper air, he continued, should not he used haast-l ully or aggressively. but the knowledge that Britain and America were at one and cooperating in progressive causes would inspire confidence in the friends ol peace and sanity, and would render impossible another suicidal conflict like the world war. RUM RUNNERS GAOLED. SAN FRANCISCO. March 10. Captain John O'Hagen, the Master, and Guiseppe Caiupanelli, the agent ol the rum-runner, Guila, which was scuttled oif the Californian coast, after she ran out of fuel, were found guilty of violating the Federal Prohibition I ,;iws. Captain O'Hagen was given fifteen months in gaol, and CampaueUi received two years, and he was fined 500 dulla is.

The crew took to the boats after scuttling the vessel. They were picked up and brought here. At their trial they were acquitted.