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Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1925, Page 3

FOREIGN MONOPOLISTS WARNED (Received this day at 8 n.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. til. The Foreign monopolists of raw materials essential to American industry were warned by Secretary Hoover in a speecli at Erie, 'Pennsylvania, to-night, that if the unfair exactions were continued they could expect the Cniled States to retaliate by organising a Government ally to shove the upward prices on the commodities it produces for world trade. The United Stales had enforced anti-trust laws to prevent the producers combining to mulct the consumers of American products, lint now could easily countenance the creation of combinations which would deal with tin* prices of cotton, copper and oil and what bad been done by English, Brasilian, French, German and other producers of ran- materials imported into America. HONDURAS DEBT. WASHINGTON. Oil. 3(1. A Honduras debt, of live million pounds, floated in Britain in 1810. with compound Interest. now totals nearly thirty million pounds. It is being settled at the British Embassy. Ilfliidliras will have to pay twelve hundred thousand pounds yearly without interest for a period of thirty years. CANADIAN ELECTIONS - TAustmlia it N.Z. Cable Association.] OTTAWA, Oct. 81. With fourteen seats still unheard from this morning, returns slum the Conservatives have 120, Liberals 111, Progressive 17, Labour 2, Independents 1. From out. of the wreckage caused by yesterday's political hurricane the following points are conspicuous: (1) The seeming inadequacy of the Conservatives majority to permit its protection policy being properly completed at this stage; (2) The probability of something approaching a Party stalemate; (3) The strong probability of another election shortly in order to afford an opportunity for n more decisive mandate. It is considered certain that Mr Meiglmn. if he succeeds in forming a Ministry, will carry on for iit least one session, before going to the country. New possibilities developed, however, to-day when Premier King denied that he had decided to resign, stating he was awaiting the (imif returns before discussing the matter with the Governor-General. Liberal organisers declare tnat Mr .Meiglmn ennnoti overcome the combined oppositions ami that Air King can meet Parliament and challange a vote of confidence on the issue of high protection. On such a vote, the Liberals say all members of the House not definitely aligned with Air Aleiglian will vote with the Government. Mr Meiglmn declines a statement until the official returns are complete. OTTAWA. Oct. 31.

One of the sensations of the election is the defeat of the .Premier and seven Ministres in Ontario province, with the largest number of seats where the Conservatives secured a victory only paralleled twice since the Confederation. Acrncs MncPhnil, a Progressive is again the only woman member ot the House. Three other women were unsueessful.

WALT/ STREET PLEASED. NEW YORK, Oct. 30

Wall Street is pleased as the results of the Canadian elections. It considers it a Conservative victory, with the probale resultant high tariff, the most constructive development of Canada in years. The Liberal Free Trade policy retarded agricultural industrial development, causing a large emigration to Fnited States.

IT.S. EJECTION day. (Received til is day at 11.25 a.m.i NEW YORK, Nov. 1. Tuesday will l>e election day throngh<»ut tlie nation when many officials from City Mayors to State Governors and Federal Congressmen will he elected, and by State referendums. the people .'will decide upon expenditure of many ’ hundreds of millions of dollars for var--knis public improvements. Peculiar in- * torost attaches to the contests in several places either lieeau.se of old and hitter issues revived, or extraordinarily Large outlays involved for peculiarly necessary state undertakings. Detroit has lived through a stirring campaign. The Mayor, John Smith, in canvassing for re-election has advised as the chief issue, relentless opposition to the Ku Klnx Klan, while John Bowles, attorney, his oponent, has refused to accept the issue, declaring lie is neither for nor against the Klan. This contest has interest Henry Ford, who has issued a statement denouncing organisations which directly or indirectly are undermining any church, and has declared lie will support Smith who is a Homan Catholic.

In New Jersey, Arthur Whitney, a Republican opposes Harry Moore, a Democrat, for the Governorship. The latter’s party have kept the prohibition issue to the forefront and declare that in the State, which is a great strong-hold, the anti-prohibition cry usually brings victory. Tliej quote the instance of Governor Edwards, who said lie. wanted to see New Jersey as wet as the Atlantic Ocean and was elected by a large majority. New York City will see a traditional

battle between Tammany Hall and the combined opposition forces. In tbo present mayoral contest. involving -] .James Walker. Democrat and Tammany Hall's nominee. Frank Waterman. tlie ianions manufacturer of fountain pens. Independent and the T?e----t publican. Use fortunes of Governor r Smith, v. bo pbiyed sucb a prominent 1 part in tlie last Domoeratie National Convention. are involved in Walkers , candidacy for wlii-h be is actively earni- pnigning. while ex-Sccretary of State, » Hughes. is campaigning for Waterman. • Smitb is also sponsoring the expenditure of four hundred million dollars foi rebuilding fire trap prisons etc. and the elemination of dangerous railway crosss ings, which take an annual toll of - hundreds of lives in motor accidents. ' Hughes has greatly discoucerned the ’ Republicans In- supporting Smith in these expenditures. Two Federal C’on- ? gressinen will he elected in New Jersey ■ and Kentucky to fill the extraordinary . vacancies. Governors will also lie. elce- - ted in Virginia while State Legislatures in Virginia, Kentucky, New .Jersey and .Mississippi will he chosen. These contests are looked upon as valuable indications of the country’s trend for the important general congressional election in H)2f>. BRITISH % FORFIGN HEWS [Reuter Telegrams.] SRAM bI.NCKR INDfSROSF.I). (Received this day at 8 a.niA LONDON. Nov. I'. Advices h'ciin Geneva reporl that Spahlingor is suffering from a nervous breakdown and had In leave Geneva temporarily, while, owing Lo a lack of capital, lie will shor'tTv he selling off his horses and cattle which will" detail long delay in the manufacture of scrum. Medical officers in the North of Englaml are holding a conference shortly the outcome whereof it. is anticipated, will la* tlie rehahilit.il ion of Spahlinper’s laboratory enabling him to con- j tiiino his operations as soon as liK health is restored. A TRAGfC DKATII. RERUN. Oct. 31. General Mueller, commander of flic Rcichswohr. Saxony, who iron liandedly suppressed Gommunism disorders in Saxony two years ago. died tragically. ! While watching shooting practice at I Jnterherg lie suddenly fell and expired, r At first it was thought to lie due lo a stroke, bet it was ascertained lie was i struck by a bullet fired from a machine i gun half a mile away. ’ MOTOR SHIPS. i LONDON. Oct. 31. The monthly newspaper “Motor Ships’’ suggest that in a few years there will lie so nianv motor vessels afloat that they will influence the freight market, owing to their lower operating costs. The total tonnage of motor vessels now being built- all the world over is 1 .(Kid.o23. compared with steamers totalling 081.788 tons. Thir-ty-eight per cent, of the tonnage now being built in the United Kingdom and sixt.v-foiir per cent, of that- being built in foreign countries will lie fitted with oil engines. A BTG FIRM LOSS. 1 VANCOUVER. Nov. 1. A fire swept a block in ‘ Automobile Row” Seattle on Snttirdnv night. The - damage is estimated at two million dollars. SHAH OF PERSIA DEPOSED. NOT UNEXPECTED. (Received this day at 8 .vm.j TEHERAN, Nov. 1. Tilt* Mc.jli.ss passed a resolution by a. majority of eighty in the name -. of Hie national welfare to depose the ruling ('ajar Dynasty and to give temporary Government within the consti- , tutional and national laws Lo Ilezu Khan Pehlcvc, leaving the national assembly with constitutional power to decide a permanent Government by I changing certain articles in Lhe constitution. This means that the Shall, . who is at present living in Paris, is deposed. PARIS, Nov. I. Tlie Shah, who i- residing at the hotel Majestic, expressed no surprise- i when informed pi the news it his de- '• position. He has lately given up his , visits to racecourses and night restau- ( rants and has been living- in comparative cpiietitude. His secretary stated that His Majesty had been long of the opinion that his return to Persia would he ill-advised. CHINESE FIGHTING, PEKIN, October 31. Official reports, originating in Allied quarters from Nanking and Hankow assert a division of Eciigtien troops mutinied and looted at Tlsuehow and retreated, whereupon Allied forces oecu- jpied Hsuchow. According to Wupeifu’s headquarters q Honan and Tupau Provinces joined the i Allied forces, Ilonanites marching upon ~ Hsuchow and Eengyuhsinng and de- i, dared war against C hangtsolin. .MAN UNDER KUfCIDES. ; PARIS, November 1. | .Max Linder, the French film actor, s and his wife, were discovered in bed in the hotel Baltimore in a pool of . blood. Both had severed the arteries , of the right wrists. The ra.'.ur was t alongside tlie wile who was dead. | Linder, who was believed to be suffer- | ing from tuberculosis, left a letter in- , dieating they agreed to suicide. lfe succumbed latter. THE CORPSE FACTORIES. DR STRESEM.ANN’S STATEMENT. , LONDON. November 2. Dr Slrosemann in a letter to the newspaper “Weekly Dispatch sayGermany created her wartime establishments to utilise the carcases of animals for industrial purposes. The allegations that the establishment was intended for the utilisation of soldiers’ corpses was officially repudiated ns a shameful lie, which the Germans, 1 mourning the loss ol many sons on the battlefield regarded as one of the most j cruel and poisonous lingeries of the ( war which were penned.