AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1926, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

fAustralia & N.Z. Cable Association.] TRADE QUEST. BY CANADIANS. VANCOUVER, Aug. 12. “If Canada can get the Australian market for paper alone, it would mean the additional employment in that line alone of more than three thousand men in British Columbia. With their dependents it will mean an additional market here for more than a quarter of the butter exported from Australia last year,” said Mr J. IT. MacDonald, past President of the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association, nt tlie Associated Boards of Trade of British Columbia when warmly endorsing the Australian trade treaty. It showed a balance of trade greatly in favour of Canada, lie said. The ratio was one to five in Canada’s favour in the first year of the treaty. He scouted the criticism relative to the Canadian butter industry. I-Ie cited quotations to show that the Australian butter imported did not disturb the butter market in Canada.

CANADA’S TRIBUTE. VANCOUVER, August 13

Tn a speech at Victoria, the exPremier, Mr McKenzie King, declared that he stood “ for British Constitution through and through.” He added: “I am not in favour, I never have been in favour, and never .will be in favour, of annexation.” He said he made the statement because of deliberate attempts to mislead the people of the country. He declared that lie believed the country had mo greater destiny than as one of the free-governing nations of the British Empire. “That is the highest destiny we can have,” he said. “The greatest service to mankind will be rendered by having two nations on the continent of North America.. Canada is in the happy position of being able to contribute to the pence of the world , both by her example and by her position as the interpreter for the United States to Britain, and for Britain to the United States.”

CANADIAN FISHING DISASTER. HALIFAX (Nova Scotia), Aug. 12. All the information available confirms the fears that the twenty-five fishermen missing since the vessel Sylvia Mosher was. wrecked on Sable Island on Saturday evening, have been drowned. A Government steamer seeking for possible survivors wirelessed to-day that' the fog had lifted and that the search was proceeding. . Eight of the vessel’s twenty dories (fishing ‘ boats) have been washed ashore. , AMERICAN ADMIRAL’S VIEWS. WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. Rear-Admiral Rodgers who has retired, speaking at the Institute o? Politics nt WiHiamstow.ii, characterised the Washington Disarmament Conference as a piece of British strategy. It was called because Britain objected to United States having n merchant fleet and navy higger than her own. She held up,‘as a bait, the’idea of a stalemate in the Far East as the objective, together with the abrogation of the ■ Japanese Alliance. The result of the Conference was the Treaty was destroyed, which threatened American supremacy on the seas and left England the lending sea-power, for it is developing n. cruiser class which the Treaty loft unlimited, and further released her from the Japanese Alliance, which Canada would no longer tolerate.