AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1928, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. - )

t AN ADI AN IMPORTS. OTTAWA, Feb. 1. A -harp attack was made on the A us. tralian trade treaty in the House of Representatives this afternoon by Dr Peter MeGibbon (Conservative member lor Muscoka) who said the treaty provid'd for radical reductions in tariff on Canadian commodities, notably butter. In 11)21 imports from Australia amounted to a million dollars; and exports to Australia nineteen millions. In 1027 imports from Australia bad risen to six millions and exports bad fallen to eight millions. Importations of butter from Australia and New Zealand had risen to ten million pounds per year. The price to the Canadian farmer had dropped thirteen to fourteen cents per pound. Was it, he asked, patriotic to import such a. large quantity of butter from these dominions while Canadian farmers suffered. He hoped some person would rise and demand that the treatv be modified.

WHY GENEVA FAILED. WASHINGTON. Feb. 1

Rear-Admiral Hilary Jones bolero the House Naval Affairs Committee to-day. said the failure of the Genova Naval Conference was due to the refusal of the Washington delegation to submit to a programme making the United States inferior on the lug'll seas. He said Britain sought to limit the United States to warships id low tonnage and small armament, and that the compromise proposals offered by Britain by “this camouflage” always came back to tN* original British programme of light cruisers with six inch guns, which were little use to this Government.

Rear-Admiral Jones said he saw no conference in the near future that would again he taking tip naval limitation. and he vigorously supported Hie seventy-one -hip programme.

He added that lie believed it would not he ethical to build airship carriers below ten thousand tons, without Hie consent of Britain and Japan. U.S. PICTURE COY. SENDING CAMERAMEN TO N.Z. NEW YORK. Fob. 1. The Universal Pictures Coy. announces that it will send on February Bth, an expedition of cameramen, beaded by Alexander .Markov, a former editor of Rearson’s .Magazine, into New Zealand to film a story of the interior. The east is to be composed entirely of natives, twenty of whom will return here to appear with the film.

F.S. PRESIDENCY. WASHINGTON. Eeb. 2

A me.-sage from Richmond, Virginia, stales' that the Smith-McAdoo feud which resulted in the frustration of Democratie efforts at the presidential campaign in 1921, was revived w.iei: McAiloo to-da.v delivered a speech considered an attack on Governor Smith’s wet view. Senator MeAdoo argued that to expect prohibition enforcement lrom a president hostile to prohibition was ••upon its face an absurdity.” He strongly opposed the election ol any wet. AMFRICAN REPORT. 'WASHINGTON. Eeb. 1. Senator Johnson has demanded a Congressional I inquiry into the salt coal strike, which lias been rontinining for many months. He said women and children were starving in mining camps in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Miners ami their families were being ejected by thousands and left freezing in Hie streets. Senator Reed confirmed Senator Johnson's statement of the conditions in Pennsylvania. Ex-Governor PinehePs charges are being quoted, that the coal companies employed 40'X) thugs and lelous ns private policemen in Pennsylvania.