AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1925, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z.. CAULK ASSOCIATION AMERICA'S NEW WEAPON. WASHINGTON. April 23. The Navy Department Inc. announced the development of a live-inch atitiaircral! gun that greatly ex' cd.- m range the three-inch gun now u.-ed by the naval vessels. The first ol the new guns will lie installed on the battleship Maryland this summer. It has net only I ecu peiiected. but it will be in-tallcd with complete antiaircraft control equipment, thus guaranteeing greater accuracy in tiring, which the present type lacks.

In announcing (lie new gun. the Dep:u t it: ci it. hr (lie first time, gave out detailed reports of the results of recent tests ill whii h the Elect gunners succeeded in regi--Wring a large percentage ol hits against sleeve targets towed bv planes, ul’irli i al.n iiiat uni hitherto' lias been a aly-gua l ale, I secret. 11l forly-twn tests. siace-slul hits were scored in 48 per cent, i f the shuts. .MEAT PACKERS’ TRAD! XU. WASIIIXUTOX. April 23. A decree, oidering the "Rig Five” meat packers of Chicago to divest themselves of ail their holdings outside the meat business, as cabled on 2,th February, i!>2!>. was to-day siis|KUided bv the District of Columbia Supreme Court. The decree was not declared void, hut it was suspended in its operation indefinitely. This is due to a loss sulfered by certain ( alifoniian eanneries, which had contracted relations with the packers. ’I lie Department cf Justice in l!20 obtained the decree under the Anti-Trust laws, the Department alleging restraint ol trade, which was putting the contiul virtually of the entire food supply of the United States into the hands ol the meat packers. ’I he suspension ol the decree permits the packers now to deal in butter and eggs, and ipjiltitudinous other food products, and to participate in other circulated businesses. RRITAIX AX'D KUAi RUXXINU. AEW YORK. April 21. Recent American criticism of lirilain's altitude towards the American rum-running and nan otic problems, and of her foreign policy as being one of ••pure greed and selfishness. ’ were con trio li’.-i :-i! bv Sir l’.snic Howard, the British Ambassador, in an address to the Sous of Si. Ueorge, at Pliilatieipliia. The Ambassador said that lie had heard of many criticisms which either denied to the British people any virtu” at all. or questioned the “British pro-' Cessions of disinterestedness ' m their attitude towards the opium, liquor and smuggling questions. He declared that he took no notice ol the first kind of criticism, hut the second was ton insidious to overlook. He said there was no decent-minded man in Britain who did not deplore the iaet that there were evil-disposed persons who abused Hie British Hag. in order to violate the laws of tlm t nited

Stales in regard to liquor and smuggling. He declared that the recent liquor treaty between United States and Britain was intended to remedy this e\il. and. although some arrests had been made which were not quite within tlie terms of that treaty, the Bnt--1,1, Uoveiiiiiient had refrained from protesting, in view of the nature ol the ofi’enoe. 11l outlining Britain s record m establishing liberal reforms. Sir Ksmo Howard maintained that British rule, Hie world over, stood not for oppression. not for greed, not tor grail, not for power and force. He denied the statement that 'Britain had. not contributed her share of sacrifices in Hi” world war. and said the Empire did not benefit as greatly from the war as some persons contended.