AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) QUDBEC TBAGEDY. QUEBEC’. Dec. 14. Fourteen persons, twelve of whom are children, are known to he dead as the result of a fire which destroyed the hospice of St. Charles. It is believed that thirty altogether perished. ADYEBSE PRESS COMMENT. NEW YOBK, Dec. 14.

The New York ‘ Times,” in an editorial, deprecates the likelihood of approval by the General Board of the Navv programme, and says it is the intention of the administration to include a clause providing that in case of agreement by treaty to reduce naval armaments, the new ships need not he constructed. The President, by this mentis, in the event oi another Naval Conference being summoned, would have in his hands material with which to bargain. This was not the ease at Geneva last spring. The American delegates asked other nations to make sacrifices, hut they had only trifling of their own to offer, even with the modest building programme approved hv Congress. The President would next time he in a better position to negotiate.

The New York “ World ” says: One may well ask what new threat to the security of the nation explains or justifies the greatest of war programmes in time of peace. The programme is a repudiation of Mr C’oolidge’s own position, a blow to economy, and a defeat of moderation. It is a victory for dogma. It is the irony of Mr Coolidge’s attempt to help disarm the world that larger expenditure for ships was in a single building programme, and is now recommended, than in any other administration. The Chicago “ Tribune ” says the answer is that the United States will build according to its judgment of its needs.

LINDBERGH FETED. NEW YORK, Dec. 14. Lindbergh’s flight to Mexico City has brought about a recurrence of the same intense popular interest as did the Paris flight, the newspapers in the United States devoting a large amount of space to minute descriptions of all details, while in Mexico. The newspapers are breaking all precedents by emerging from the conservative treatment of news, printing large photographs of Lindbergh, and heralding the flier as one of the greatest modern heroes. Anxiety regarding the lateness or his arrival was extremely intense, and the relief was great when he landed safely. He explained that he lost his hearings in a fog. probably over Tampico. To-night Lindbergh is being feted, and has already been presented with a large number of gifts. The newspapers in Mexico suggested that the National University should confer an honorary degree upon him, similar to the tribute only paid to high dignitaries, such as Colonel Roosevelt, Air Thomas Edison, and Victor Emanuel.