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Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1927, Page 4

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

I’R ISOXERS' STRIKE. [Australian & X.Z. Cable Association.] NEAY YORK. .June '2l. The prisoners who went on strike nr Lansing, and. as cabled on .Juno 2 1-!. stayed down the mine a here they worked, decided to surrender alter three days of a hunger sa-ge. I hey did so upon a promise iroiu tinLansing I‘risou Hoard that tln-ir deniands will be eonsidere'l fairly and impartially by the Hoard. The convicts bad a battle among t benisel ve- before the strike ended, some bobling cut against any sin lender. Several of the strikers had to be carried out I ruin the mine, they having been weakened through their hun-

VIEWS OF AAI ERICA. XKW YORK, dune 2b. , Professor Sin Harrison. of .Melbourne, who will deliver .Yunnan Wait Harris' foundation lettuces at the University of Chicago beginning on dune 27th. interviewed as tn his immediate American . impressions .said life among English speaking people was not. fundamentally different. Chicago was not essentially diliereiit irom Svdnev. Melbourne or oilier Australian cities. Americans wealth exposed itself in magnificent buildings in the great, civic centres, great linaneial cunimereial bouses and universities. Jt staggers one when lie looks back a quarter of a. century and then moves tip into the present to see what lavish expenditure it lias brought about. Questioned regarding leeling in Australia for Cnited States. Air Moore said we hiok upon this country as a sort of brother, with whom we have common leeling hut litth* direct contact. Such discussions as freedom of the Philippines do not concent us at all.

I'.S.A. IMMIGRATION. WASHINGTON, dune 21

The immigration quoins oi twentylive countries have been exhausted lor the linaneial year ending dune 30th. including Britain and Northern Ireland, the Irish Free State, and New Zealand.