AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1926, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

U.S.A. POLITICS. LIVELY DISCUSSIONS PROAUSKD. AYASHINGTOX. March 22. The Scnato this week is taking lip the question of the Italian debt settlement. It is expected there will begin n lengthy discussion on the American foreign policy as various Republican irreconcilablcs intimate they will attempt to discuss the League, questions and the attitude of .European commentators upon Senator Borah’s recent resolution asking Secretary Kellogg to inform the Senate what steps have been taken to negotiate a settlement of the claims of American citizens against Britain and France for the violation

of tho rights of neutrals Ixitwecn the A Ist of August 1911 and 10th April 1917, having reference to the blockade. It is understood that Senator Borah will probably question the British attitude towards the reports of his resolution cabled'to London. Tho irreconcilablcs appear angered at the feeling of the British newspapers, some of which arc reported as having asked what Britain intends to do concerning the many British claims pending against tho United .States as the result of the war. • WASHINGTON, March 22. '['lie Houghton incident became today the subject of a debate in the United States Senate, and a Hurry between Senator . Borah and Senator Glass revealed the probable manner in which the report came to he circulated concerning Ambassador Houghton’s views of Europe. Senator Borah declared that there was indisputable evidence contained in the League of Nations’ meeting recently that the European statesmen were returning to the practice ol secret agreements, and to tho old balance ol power. There could he no disarmament he said, as long as these practices continued.

Senator Glass interjected : —“ But what right has our Ambassador to come over here and attempt to disrupt tiling!” Senator Roraih replied: “We cannot contribute to peace by concealing facts. I suspect that Ambassador Houghton has told the facts as he understood them, and if he erred, it was an error of judgment.”

Senator Borah said that he had talked with Ambassador Houghton, and the newspaper reports did not differ materially from those which lie had received from tho Ambassador himself. Senator Glass said: “ I demand that if Ambassador Houghton has failed to express Lhe views of President Coolidge he be recalled, so as to show all the world how the Washington Government stands.”

Many other Senators then spoke

Several asked to know if there had been any development nullifying the Locarno agreement, and others questioned whether President Coolidge intends now to call his own armament

conference. (GIGANTIC AIRSHIPS. OTTAWA. March 23

Gigantic airships, with lines encircling tho globe, and with fast airplanes feeding them, were outlined hv Air Vice-Marshall Sir Sol'ton Brnncker, the director of civil aviation at the British Air Ministry, in an address to (he Empire Club at Toronto. He declared that Britain was developing two gigantic airships with, a capacity of five million cubic feet, for a service between India and London, which service eventually would include Australia. This, in turn, would bring Canada within twenty-five or thirty hours ol England. The new ship would carry one hundred passengers.