AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1928, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS

U.S. CONCESSIONS TO FRANC 1‘

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16,

Treasury officials indicate in connection with the French loan that the French Government also will he given credit with the Federal Reserve, to aid return to the gold .standard, and may even he permitted to float Government loans in the United States, tne.se privileges are sought.

MUBI )EB EB ARB AIGN ED. NEW YORK, Jan. 18.

Adolf Hotelling, charged with the murder of Dorothy Schneider, at Flint, Michigan, was arraigned in a farm yard to avoid a mob <it six thousand, who threatened to lynch him.

A pica of not guilty was entered for Mini, owing to his present state of confusion, due to hysteria.

DENOUNCES WAR. NEW YORK, Jan. 18

Senator Wheeler, speaking at the Eeoiunoic Club, said: ‘‘To all intents and purposes President Coolidge and Mr Kellogg are waging an undeclared war against the people of the little Bepublican of Nicaragua, serving the purposes ol a small banking group. No person of sound judgment can review the utteranes and activities of the State Department and the President. with their present dealings with our southern neighbours, without coming to the conclusion that moral chaos reigns in the Department.- and moral confusion in the White House. Iho waters surrounding the country are churned up by the procession of American batleships. and the marines landed in the manner of Roman Cohorts when Borne was over-running the world. Our airplanes are being used to drop bombs upon non-combatants—. men, women, and children, and our boys in the Marines are being killed upon foreign soil without war being declared.”

U.S. NAVY. WASHINGTON. Jan. 17. Admiral Hughes, chief of Naval operations told the House Naval Committee to-dav that a twenty-five per cent increase was necessary in the Administration's new construction programme to provide the United states with an adequate navy. He defended a reasonable navy as a fleet with afair chance of doing something anti an adequate navy, as one which had a. sure chance ol doing something. Asked if it was the navy’s thought to have a fleet equal to Britain’s, he declared that the navy did not wish to have a competitive building programme, but that thought was underlying the idea. Continuing his testimony Admiral Hughes said that in 1910. it "as the policy of the United States to have a navy second to none ami lie did not know that there had been any change in this policy.