AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 April 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] POWERS UNITY OF ACTION. NEW YORK, April 11. The New York Times’ Washington correspondent states: “Whether in the event of the rejection or the ignoring of the demands contained in the Powers’ five identical notes, delivered to the National Government, the same unity of purpose will dominate the "appropriate measures” which tho five Powers are prepared to take is a question upon which the U.S.A. officials decline to throw any light, and, apparently, upon one feUture alone can they answer. The State Department has indicated that, to revel ! the next step in the event of non-compliance, would only he giving advance information to the Chinese Nationalists. It is understood moreover, th'Jt if live Powers are ’.agreed upon the steps to be taken, such agreement is only an informal one. A prediction that the United States will embark on no military movement AA against Chin i beyond that involved lit the protection of her nationals, has not been denied. FUTURE OF PACIFIC. HONOLULU, April 12. The Pan-Pacific Conference on Education, etc., lias opened here. A letter A from President Coolidge, U.S-A-, was rd-td. in which he said that the increase in the communications and the closeness of the relations between the nations of the Pacific have made it appropriate and desirable that moms should be found for mutual helpfulness The corner-stone of Pan-Pacific building was laid, and trees lrom tlie cations countries were planted. U.S. COURT DECISION. NEW YORK, April 11. Sustaining in effect treaties negotiated with foreign governments to aid prohibition enforcement, the Supreme Court to-day rendered a decision in the ease of the British vessel Qmulct I seized off the coast of California in I 1924. The Court upheld tlie validity ■ of the prosecution of the crew on con- ; spiracy charges on which they were i convicted. The opinion was held that " i the treaties did not restrict the Federal Government front bringing such II prosecutions, not only under the VolI stead, but under tlie Tariff Acts, it ; pointed out the conflicting evidence regarding the exact location of the seizure did not affect the guilt or in- : nonence of those aboard, as the ques- . tion was not raised during the tri’il. ! TOWN IN TEXAS LEVELLED. y , NEW YORK, April 12. I News from Houston, in Texas, states i that between one hundred and fifty I and two hundred persons have been . killed and hundreds ntoie have been , injured by a storm on Tuesday night. 1 The disaster occurred as a result of a hurricane, which laid waste almost the entire town of Rock Springs. There are so many casualties that it is ira- ! possible to cheek them. SKYSCRAPER AFIRE. NEW YORK, April 12. One of the most spectacular fires in * the city’s history occurred to-mght when a blaze of unnkown origin start- r I e d m, the 38th floor of the 44 storey New Nethcrland Hotel, on Fiftn j Avenue. The structure was surroundI cd on all sides by huge wooden seafj folding, which quickly ignited, making a huge torch that illuminated the eiir tire city, and stopped traffic for miles J round about through falling embers dropping into tiic neighbouring stioets. ( The firemen were powerless to fight tlie ] conflagration, since there was no water in the building, and the hoses were r tearing to hits under the downward j gravity pressure and the upward pressure from the force pumps attempting ~ t to lift water from the street level, (treat beams, burning fiercely, descended from a distance of five hundred feet above tlie street and crashed with tlie sound of cannons to the ground, endangering the lives of the firemen.

ARAIOUR GRAIN TRUST. NEW YORK, April 12. The Chicago Board of Trade has ordered the suspension of the Armour GiQin Company, which for several decades has dominated trading in the wheat pit, and which is considered one of the largest concerns of its kind in the world. The suspension follows upon the investigations of a State Legislative Committee, showing manipulations on the part of the Company, which the Board of Trade considers wrongful acts. It is believed the suspension will terminate the Company’s activities as a live factor in the grain trade. RISING IN NICARAGUA. WASHINGTON. April 12, Doctor Yaca, an agent for Nicaraguan Liberals, lias issued a statement charging American marines with conscripting men of all classes and ages in Nicaragua for the services of the Diaz Army, and that they are actively engaged -in military operations, but short or actual duty in the firing line. He asserts Nicaraguan citizens are seized by Admiral Latimer’s forces, promptly equipped, and transported in lorries to the front, together with war materials, and that American Army aeroplanes are constantly doing scouting work for the Diaz Army, locating Liberal forces, and appeasing their numbers and determining their movements. The statement declares this is an object lesson of inhumanity likely long to live.in the memory of Central American people.