AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) CANADA'S NAVY. OTTAWA, Doc. 27. The Government will seek the authority of Parliament to purchase two modern destroyers to be delivered within three years to replace the Patriot and Patrician, considered obsolete. Arrangements were completed with the Admiralty to secure the destroyers Torbay and Toreador, which will be reconditioned at Portsmouth, and arrive in Canada in March for use, pending the building of the new vessels, which will be commenced immediately.

POISONOUS LIQUOR. NEW YORK, Dec. 26. Fifteen persons died of alcoholism or poison liquor in the metropolitan district since Friday, while three succumbed to alcoholism or poison liquor and fourteen others are ill in Chicago. SIN MEN SHOT DEAD. NEW YORK, Doc. 26. At South Pittsburg, a coal and iron mining village in Tennessee, militiamen are keeping order to-day alter six officers of the law have been shot dead and a score of otheis wounded in a pitched battle between county and city police. The clash resulted from a dispute in a local factory, the county sheriff siding with the union workers while the city marshal sided with the non-union men. The State Governor was compelled to order out the National Guard to restore order. AMERICAN CITIES POPULATION. WASHINGTON, Doc. 26 The Census Bureau reports that the estimated population of the leading cities of the United States on Inly 12 was:—New York, 5,970,000, Chicago. 3,102,000; Philadelphia, 2.036 000, Detroit, 1.331,000.