AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1928, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS

j y (Australian Press Association A Sun.; CANDIDATES REPLIES. .'Received this day at f 1.30 a.m.) Washington, Feb. 23. I_ Air Hoover answered Air Bomb’s prohibition questionnaire and staled he does not favour the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. He said: “1 stand off the course for the efficient, vigorous and sincere enforcement of the laws enacted there under.’’ v Some amusement was caused by k Senator Wills’s comment that his rel>iy was much more concise than Air Hoover’s, particularly as all the cana didates necessarily must endorse what I is the law of the. land. building progr.aaiaik. WASHINGTON. Feb. 23. Ihe House Naval Committee adopt- _ ed a programme of fifteen cruisers. , and one aircraft carrier to cost 274-1 million dollars. The programme will , he embodied in a hill tit be introduced by Chairman Butler. The programme calls for cruisers of ten tliousan tons each to be laid down in three years and completed in six, with an aircraft carrier of 13.800 tons to , he laid down in two veals. The Committee adopted a provision authorising the President to suspend the proposal construction wholly or partly if an agreement for further limitation was reached at a future disarmament conference. Tt is estimated tlie cost is only for vessels and does not include personnal anil necessary aeroplanes. I The Committee voted down proposals for submarines, on the grounds that the United States already has more submarine tonnage than any other nation.

CANADA’S TRADE. OTTAWA, Feb. 23. Speaking to the Conservative Amendment to the Budget, General J. A. Clark (Vancouver) argued that Canada lost 21) millions in trade as a result of treaties with Australia and other countries. He believed in every case, except two, that the treaties had a detrimental effect upon a favourable trade balance in Canada. In the case of Australia, imports bad fallen over two millions and exports over a million, thereby decreasing a favourable trade balance of three and a-half millions. In the case of New Zealand imports had risen two millions and exports had fallen three and a-half millions, decreasing the trade balance by lour and a-half millions.