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Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1928, Page 2

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'Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) CANADA’S RESPONSIBILITY. OTTAWA, Jan. 4. -Mr Kerr, a former Secretary to Mr Lloyd George, addressing the Canadian Club, said that Canada was best qualified to act as interpreter lietween Britain and the United States. It was Canada that made the Washington Disarmament Treaty possible. Canada bad signed the treaty and covenant to the League of Nations and had expressed approval of the Locarno Pact, mid therefore had assumed responsibility in protecting world peace. - Air Kerr expressed the opinion that if Britain and the United States had appointed delegates of a similar calibre to those at the Washington Conference, the Geneva Disarmament Conference might have had different results.

CANADA’S FUTURE. VANCOUVER, Jan. Addressing the Canadian Club today. Air Bennett, Conservative Leader, emphasised the necessity of Canada making a decision as to whether her strength economically was cast in or without the Empire. •• We must decide within the next few years, if we arc to combine with other parts of the Empire or combine with economic interests elsewhere. It is economic union within the Empire or with our cousins to. the south.” KILLED BY BAD LIQUOR. NEW YORK, Jan. I. j lie New York “ World ” states that statistics just published by the Department of Health disclose that i<o persons were killed by bad liquor in 1927. New York City bad the greatest number of any year since the Volstead Law was enacted, and more than the deaths in any of the ten preceding wet years. The rate of alcoholism deaths in 1927 was thirteen per hundred thousand, or slightly more than the rate for measles in petit years. SUBMARINE DISASTER INQUIRY. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. President Ooolidge asked Congress to authorise him to appoint a Commission of five, three of whom are to be civilians, to investigate the sinking of the submarine S 4.