AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS

'Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) STRIKE TROUBLE. NEIV YORK, Nov. 21. The latest from Denver says tint three miners are now dead and rhe are near death. Twenty-five persons including eight of the State poilce. were injured. Governor Adams called out the Colorado National Guard. proclaiming the rioting of the miners to lie “bodies of men acting tog?iher by force in an attempt to commit a fdonious offence of violence to persons and property.” Tli ree hundred guardsmen are now patrolling the mines in tlie Boulder and Weld counties.

OTL CONTRACTS WITH RUSSIA NEW YORK, Nov. 21.

Despite the protest of the Royal Dutch Shell group, the Standard Oil Company of New York, has entered into a new contract for the purchase of a, 'large quantity of Russian oil products to supply'its markets in the Near East. The contract calls for a delivery of a minimum of 360 thousand tons of ail over a period of six years, and is the third agreement which the Standard Oil Company has made since last December. It- is understood that the Standard Oil Company’s purchases of Russian oil will amount to 1.400,000 tons yearly, during the life of these contracts. The opinion here is that the new contract foreshadows a hitter contest for supremacy in the foreign oilmarket.

YANKEES’ DISCRIMINATION

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21

The Supreme Court has handed down its decision declaring constitutional the Mississippi law which excludes Chinese from Board Schools in that State, on the ground that Chinese are not members of the white race.

ATTITUDE OF U.S.A. NEW YORK. Nov. 21

The New York “Times” Washington correspondent says that the participation of the United States in the meeting at Geneva of the Preparatory Commission on Armament Limitation, will probably be confined to formal attendance. The American Minister to Switzerland, Mr Wilson, will represent America, but as the security question will presumably raise no problems ot direct concern to the United States, it is not planned to send technical experts, particularly as the discussion of armament limitations is not scheduled until next spring. Ihe United States may find it advisable to signify its position liy a simple declaration of policy concerning its non-interest in European politics. No word has reached the State Department that Britain is contemplating offering a resolution to the Commission for the appointment of a special committee to consider naval limitations as intimated in the news despatches from Paris, and officials doubt whether such a proposal would carry at the Geneva meeting, but if one of the naval powers made an informal proposal for Britain, Japan and the United States to consider naval limitation informally outside, during the Commission’s deliberation, the United States might consider such a suggestion.