AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

CANADA’S POLITICS. OTTAWA, July 20. The Prime Minister, Air Aleighen, opening the Conservative campaign, in a keynote speech on Tuesday evening, announced the general election for Sep- £ tember 14th.

Referring to the revelations of the Customs Investigation Committee, the Prime. Alinister asked whether the Government responsible “ for the utter collapse of a great Department of the State should get a certificate of character and be declared by the electors of Canada the kind of Government the people want?” Therefore, he said, it was natural that Air Mackenzie... King chose another issue—a- socalled U constitutional issue. “As a matter of \ truth,” he said, “there is no constitutional issue. Never in the history of Parliamentary Government as we liave( it to-day has any Prime Minister ever demeaned himself to ask for a dissolution while a vote of censure was under debate.”

He said he did not plead the cause of Parliament, hut to prevent Parliament expressing the will of an ex-Prime Alinister he had asked tor a dissolution. Air Aleighen declared that it was his intention, if elected, to restore definitely the principle of a protection tariff and to lay the basis of a vigorous ini- . migration jiolicy.

TO AVOID AIT SUNDERSTANDING OTTAWA, July 21.

Tn order to avoid a misunderstanding concerning the relations between the Governments of Great Britain and Canada in respect to the constitutional issue which has arisen in Canada, the ex-Prime Alinister, Air Mackenzie King, published yesterday, with the permission of Air Stanley Baldwin and the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, Air L. C. AI. S. Amery, correspondence with these officials aftei his resignation. Mr King points to the mutual assurances of goodwill contained in the core, respondenco as an effective answer to those endeavouring to “ involve a constitutional question with an alleged lack of good will and co-operation between the late Liberal Administration in Canada and the Government of Air Baldwin in Britain.” HEAT WAVE. NEW YORK, July 21. The Aliddle Western and the Eastern sections of the United States aie now sweltering in the first serious heat wave of 1926, with temperatures running up close to one hundred. A heavy toll of deaths and suffering is reported. At least eighty deaths have been recorded since Sunday. The humidity is high in many se"tions. particularly along the Atlantic Coast,, making the heat more oppressive. The death list is the heaviest in the Aliddle West, where 50 fatalities are already reported. Eleven have died in Ohio, seven in New York, two in Albany and eight in the New England States during the past 36 hours.

CANADIAN TRAGEDY. OTTAWA, July 21

A message from Petcrsborough, Ontario, says: Fifteen boys, mostly I>elonging to a Toronto Sunday School camp, at Balsam Lake, near here, went out in a war canoe oil Wednesday, and eleven were' drowned when it capsized. Four survivors told the story of their clinging to .the upturned craft for five hours, seeing the while their companions, all of whom were fair and experienced canoeists, disappearing beneath tlie surface. The victims’ ages ranged from sixteen to 22. They were going for supplies their canoe struck a squall.