AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

CANADIAN AFFAIRS. OTTAWA. June 30. Following on a split which, lias occurred in the Progressive Party’s ranks which has resulted in the new Conservative Government carrying early morning divisions in the House, Mr Robert Forke to-day resigned the leadership of the aprtv. The Acting Minister for Customs, Mr Stevens, announced on Tuesday, that, as an immediate step towards carrying out the recommendations of the now famous Customs Report, members of the Canadian Mounted Police were being now stationed at all the vulnerable points on the Canadian border from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

U.S.A. ACTION. WASHINGTON. June 30. Th,e strengthening of the Canadian border uatrol will he lollowed next week by the addition of over a Inindread United States officers along the same, boundary. NOTABLE COMPOSER. NEW YORK, June 29. Tins death is announced of Mr Frank Alfred Rowsoii, Australian composer ami musical director, aged 85. He had boon a resident of the United States lor GO years. He first came to America with the Howson Opera Company. Last year he composed new musical settings for Mr Ruilyaid Kipling’s “Rolling Down to Rio.” U.S. PROHIBITION' LAW. WASHINGTON, July 5. The Government has begun a supreme effort to enforce prohibition with a special appropriation of three million dollars for a campaign against organised bootleggers. In this connection nine hundred new agents have been added to the prohibition foicc. Mr Andrews also lias a general appropriation of eleven millions this year for carrying out the provisions of the Volstead ' Act. Mr Andrews is going to Europe next week to negotiate anti-smuggling treaties with Britain, Germany, France, Denmark, Netherlands, Spain and Italy. Upon, his return lie will make an inspection of the whole border and visit Alaska.