AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1927, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

[Australian & X./. Cablo Association.] ENORMOUS DAMAGE. NEW YORK, Api i! 20. Nows from Kansas City states beneath overcast skies thousands of limners and townspeople in Southern sind A/iddle Western States on Wednesday were marooned on the levees of the hanks of the Mississippi and its tributaries, I hey need food and shelter, and are faced with the uncertainty that the floods, which have already taken toll of scores of lives, will have reached the crest. Tornadoes, which followed the Hoods, increased the death list, which is well over one hundred.

Tuesday’s freak storm at Illinois alone caused damage estimated at a million dollars. Red Cross and other relief workers are hampered liy impassable roads. 'I lie worst inundations are reported in Arkansas. Special trains carried materials to strengthen the dykes, which nevertheless broke away in many places. In some districts refugees are reported to be clinging to trees, and church steeples to escape the rising waters. AN" ESTATE. XEAY YORK, April 20. News from Rakerslield, California, states John Wilson, senior, seventyfive, a resident of Australia, who left a family in England in 1888 and emigrated to New Zealand receives £3OOO under a. court decision awarding him the estate of John Wilson, who died at Oildale, California, in 1921. Four cousins in England bad demanded the estate as the nearest next-of-kin. BANDITS’ OUTRAGE. MEXICO CITY, ‘April 20. 160 passengers, and a military escort of seventeen soldiers were killed or burned to death, when bandits wrecked and fued a train bound for Mexico City, last night, from Joliseo State.

A A lAZING A XXOU XCEMEN T. [Received tiiis day at 12.25 p.mA MEXICO CITY, April 20. President Calles’ office announces it lias received reports tliat tliree Cnt'iolic priests headed the outlaws concerned in Inst night’s train wreck. JUDGE’S STATEMENT. SAX FRANCISCO, -April 20. The Judge’s opinion was that the seizure of the Canadian owned vessel was sheer aggression and trespass such as-tliat which contributed to the war of 1812. It was contrary to the Treaty and cannot l>e sanctioned l>y any Court. It cannot he the basis for any proceedings adverse to the defendants. Decent respect for the opinions of mankind and national honour, harmonizes the relations between the nations and avoidance of war requires that contracts in law represented by Treaties shall be scrupulously observed and not made mere scraps of paper.