AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1925, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N Z. CAULK ABBOCIATION MEXICO CITY', April 8. A message from President Gallos, "'ho is visiting the earthquake zone, says that almost every house in Clialchihuitis is damaged. The majority of the inhabitants are returning to town. WAR. AGAINST RUST. (Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 9. A telegram from Baltimore says that as a result of an agreement among the scientists an American Chemical Society for the investigation of the fundamental causes of rust Ja.iid corrosion will he established here to wage a world-wide combat against its ravages, ft is estimated that rust lias cost, the United States annually three billions. FREEDOM OF THE SEAS. OTTAWA, April 8. Asserting that the freedom of the

seas is at stake the Victoria British Columbia, branch of the Great War Veterans Association has launched a nation-wide protest against the seizures by the Cnited States of suspected ruin runners outside the twelve mile zone. SUMPTUOUS OFFICES I!AIDED. A LIQUOR. SYNDICATE. (Received this dav at 10.25 a.m.) NTKW YORK, April 8. The police at Chicago raided the . sumptuously furnished offices of a lawbreaking syndicate and discovered complete details of operations in connection with the distribution of liquor and the management of disorderly resorts on a stupenduous scale, involving many I millions of dollars annually. The information was obtained from neatly audited ledgers filling the cabinets and other book-keeping devices on the premises, which included the names of hundreds of wealthy liquor customers and saloon keepers, with running accounts, the names of disorderly resorts and their inmates, lists of police officers and Government officials who were bribed; also an account of the operations of four great breweries and liquor deliveries by carloads. Johnny Torio, an underworld eharac-l ter, is alleged to he the head ol the syn- 1 dicate, whose magnificently appointed I offices bore the name of a physician and : contained samples of liquor of every i description. ] Telephone (alls recorded showed the | liqupr flowed into headquarters from | every known inlet in the United States from Coast to Coast.

EARTHQUAKES IX MEXICO. [Reuters Telegrams.] MEXICO CITY, April 8. Thousands of people in Durango arc reported to he living in the open on account of their homes being damaged by the recent earthquakes, or because they fear to return on account ol the recurrent shocks. Only minor injuries are reported.