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Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1928, Page 2

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oy ielegrupju—iTess As-,i1., Copyright. SOVIET GOLD. NEW YORK, .March 9. Tiie Soviet gold lias been atachcd in a suit by the flank ot France, which alleges mat the metal belongs to it, as part ol funds stolen from the State flank ol Russia, following the revolution. GENERAL’S LIBEL ACTION. OTTAWA. March 10. A message irom Cobourg. Ontario, stales: “ We were through Minis and on the other side before the Armistice was signed, and yet Cm accused of sat riticing the lives of Canadians to take the city. Nothing could be more false,” declared Sir Arthur Currie, on arriving here to attend an examination in connection with the 50,000 dollars suit lor alleged libel he has launched against F. W. Wilson, publisher of the Fort Dope Guide, and TV. T. R. Preston, author of an article published in June. 1927. alleging that there had been a useless sacrifice of human life in order that the Canadian Headquarters Staff might have the honour of saying, “ Canadians fired the last shot in the war, and captured the last German entrenchments.” •• Not only was there no useless sacrifice, hut all the Canadians did was to straighten out the line and get a good place to kick off from before the Armistice became effective,” declared Sir Arthur Currie, who added that he had difficulty in holding his troops hack. HICKMAN’S CRIME. . NEW YORK, March 10. A Los Angeles message .states that the jury found Hickman and AVclhy Hunt guilty of the murder of Ivy Toms, the chemist. I he jury recommended life imprisonment for Hickman, and leniency fn>Hunt. BOMB OUTRAGE. NEW YORK. .March 10. A Chicago message states that the city’s twenty-second bomb explosion since tlie first of the year partially destroyed the borne of a local peddler, who was recently threatened with violence because lie would not pay dues to the Peddlers’ Union. Several of the family occupying the structure wore thrown from their beds, but none were hurt. PR ESI DENT IA L ELECTION. WASHINGTON, March 9. A bitter prc-Convciition struggle which will probably carry over into the Coo volition itsell. seems an assured result from -Mr Hoover’s entry in the Indiana Primaries. U is Mr Field against Mr Hoover. No doubt there is an understanding between the lorccsof l.owden. Wills. Watson and Curtis, whereby their strength will he pooled in "order to prevent Mr Hoover from obtaining delegates from Ohio, Indiana, and other States. Every effort is being made to give Air Hoover’s aspiration a sufficiently serious setback early in the campaign bv combining all Ids oppon outs against him. U.S. RED TAPE. VANCOUVER, March 10. Captain Robert Adamson, 7(i. master mariner since 1575), is a guest in the Canadian Immigration Buildings, pending the result of an appeal to Washington against his rejection by the United States immigration authorities. Adamson arrived by the Aorangi from Australia, with £3OO in his pocket, to visit four daughters at Portland, Oregon, equipped with ’British and American passports, but be did not have an immigration visa. The authorities say lie has relinquished bis former United States citizenship. and bad be not appealed lie would have been deported to Australia by the Aorangi. LANDSLIDE DISASTER. RIO RE JANIERO. March 10. Newspaper reports from Santos states that it is estimated that more than 209 were killed on Saturday through a landslide oil Mount Serrat. which buried many houses and streets.