AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1926, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

fAustralia & N.Z. C'abla Association.]

EAST V. WEST. NEW' YORK, July 20. At William.'fltown, Massachusetts. Sir Frederick White, formerly the head of the Indian Legislative Assembly, addressing the Institute of Polities, on the Orient, voiced a, reassurance against the so-called yellow peril, lie said: “The Orient awakening is a. now incentive to progress for the United States, rather than a cause of alarm in terms of material power. If the gauntlet of a challenge is thrown ,-at our feet, the fleets of Britain and the United States would see that the issue was decided in one way alone, while tho conquest of Europe by land, aside from physical obstacles; would necessitate a degree of Oriental unity of which there is no sign.” Sir F. AVhite said the fibre of the Western character would prevent Asiatic dominance. He declared: “The League of Nations will take the .sting out of the strained relations now existing between East and West, and when Europe has assimilated its spirit, the Orient will quickly fall into line.” TO BE DISARMED. MEXICO CITY, July 29. Attributing the Government’s action to reports of secret meetings which the authorities fear are for the purpose of developing opposition to the new religious laws, the Attorney-General, Ortega, announced on Thursday evening that he had ordered the disarmament of nil the Catholics of Mexico. AN EMBASSY REPORT. WASHINGTON, July 29. Referring to the report of the lynching of the Mayor of Nocliistan, by the village people, who were angered by his fatal shooting of a priest, the Mexican Embassy '(here to-night stated that it was in a position to deny the information, which, however, in this case (said the Embassy) was not .as exaggerated as most news regarding the religious situation in Mexico. The report was absolutely false.

HURRICANE LOSSES. NASSAU. July 29,

Over 150 are believed to have lost their lives, while damage conservatively estimated at eighteen million dollars, was done, and over 75 boats were sunk or destroyed on Monday and Tuesday in the worst hurricane ever recorded in the Bahama. Islands. Many families are homeless, and the public utilities are paralysed. The town of Nassau has abandoned all efforts to alleviate its own distress and it will despatch all the available craft to the famous Bahama sponge beds, for which nearly two hundred small sloops and schoone'rs left on Friday. The majority of those missing are members of the sponge crews. BIG LINER DAMAGED. HAVANA, July 29. With sixteen injured aboard and her superstructure damaged, the liner Orizaba of New York, limped into port this evening. The damage was sustained while battling the hurricane from Monday night to Wednesday morning, when she.was standing by the steamer Ansaldo San Giogio- Secondo.

BIG LINER NEARLY CAPSIZED . HAVANA. July 30.

The Orizaba stood by the disabled Italian vessel, but could not manoeuvre close enough to,pick up the life boats, which the crew of the latter managed to launch. The American freighter West Tarshaw finally rescued the Ansa Ido’s men.

The Orizaba’s cargo shifted on Monday night. At one time the vessel listed at an angle of forty-five degrees, and her third-class quarters were flooded.