AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS

Australian & N.Z. Cable Association

BLUE NILE DAM

NEW YORK, Nov. 0

J. G. White, of the. Engineering Corporation, announces that lie will begin operations immediately to built a dam costing twenty million dollars, on the Blue Nile, Lake Thana, undci the agreement reached with Doctoi Martin, Envoy Extraordinary, an< Alfred Juttncr, local agent of tin Abyssinian Government.

It is understood that under the terms of the agreement the Company will sell the impounded waters or develop them for water power, as it sees fit, and the moneys derived therefrom will be used to develop Abyssinia.

Government despatches received here from London quote English officials as stating that the project is counter to the provisions of the treaty of 1902, between Britain and Abyssinia, and must receive the approval of the British Government. Local newspapers, moreover, state that the issue may come up before tbe League of Nations for settlement. THE ABYSSINIA PROJECT. (Received this day at 8.30 n.ro.) NEW YORK, Nov. 7. Officials of the. AYhite Corporation expressed surprise at the international sensation created by ’lsana Dam piojeet (cabled oil Nov. fitli). A\ itli tbe Egyptian Cabinet thoroughly aroused and British officials regarding the matter as most serious, officials ol AA liite Corporation said: “We have been assured that there is no clause in the treaty which would prohibit the project. There is a clause whereby Abyssinia grants Britain the first option ol any Government loans, but ’lsana said the project does not involve a Government loan, consequently we do not see what possible objection the Brit ' Foreign Office can have. Our project is removed from any political motiic. It is purely an engineering matter. Corporation officials declared both Biitaiu and Abyssinia will be ultimate beneficiaries.

AMERICAN TOURISTS. NEW YORK, Nov. 0. Vice-President Highman, of the Raymond and AA’hitcoinh Coy, states ldative to th(> reasons for tbe cancellation of the Australian tour Cuttings we have received of newspaper com-, meat on our passengers were far from conducive to sending American tourists to Australia. AYe have, as far as wo know, always been welcomed in any other portion of the world with our cruise vessels; hut one would gather from the press observations in Australia that this was not the case atdifferent ports where we touched.” U.S. VITAL STATISTICS. AVAiSIITNGTON, Nov. 0. The Census Bureau announces there were 1,020 thousand marriages in the United States in 1920, and 180,808 divorces. The increase of marriages over 1925, was 13.745 or 1.2 per rent. The increase of divorces was 5.419, nr 3.1 per cent. There were 3.823 marriages annulled in 1920. The relative increase in the number of marriages in 1920 over 1925 was 3 per cent le.-s than the estimated increase in the population which is 1.5 per cent. The estimated population of the United States on the first July. 1920, was 117.130,000 as compared with 115,370.000 in 192-5.

THE GRAFT TRTAL. WASHINGTON. Nov

AY ill run Burns, head of a detective agency, was called before the Grand Juiy to- explain the activities of bis agents in shadowing oil trial jurors. He made sensational charges tint— “Only the Government has attempted to tamper with the jury. Burns declared his men failed with Justice Siddon’s affidavit and complaint, assorting that a Government officer in a Government automobile visited I/angal flying field and approached one of the jurors. Burns amplified the statement m an interview following the appellant lxdorc the Grand Jury, but when asked what juror was approached and bv whom ho replied shortly-—’“l' md that out from the Judge.”