AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1928, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS

A uis.itralian Press Assn,—Unitoil Service CANADIAN SHIPPING LOSS. OTTAWA, April 10. 'I lie Government merchant marine sustained an operating loss (lurin'; 1927 amounting to 720,735 dollars largely attributable to the shortage of cargo tonnage and kroner competition from privately owned modern slops, resultin'; in reduced rates by United Kingdom lines.

REROUTED (A I ILK MERGER.' OTTAWA, April 111. Il is reported there is a possibility that the Pacific Cable Coy. may lie taken over by a syndicate formed by the Pastern Telegraph Coy. and Marconi Wireless Coy. Negotiations seeking the amalgamation of the latter followed tile recent London conference. If this amalgamation is accomplished they are likely also to absorb the Pacific Coy. 'CANADA AND PERSIA. OTTAWA. April 11. It is authoritatively stated that Canada will shortly establish diplomatic and trading relations with Persia on account of the growing trade volume.

KLF KLaNF. EVIDENCE OK ATROCITIES. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). NEW YORK. April 10. A Pittsburgh message states Roy Uarelay (chief witness for the re* el croup of klaiismeu. cabled on 9th. April) testified lluiL riots at Miles, Ohio, in 1921 resulted when klansmen sworn jis ileput.v-slicriffs ordered everybody from the streets who were ignoranl of the- Plan's pa-sword. He -aid the Klim had maehine onus mounted en the outskirts of Miles, and were prepared to use them In slop the rush of ait i-klansmen. lie declared one man was killed in a riot at Lilly, Pennsylvania and the victim's name was recorded iit the burial as ‘‘poor hoy.”

Clarence Ludlow testified he saw Khtn members burn eight men at the stake, lie described the death of one victim, who was a. white man. He declared. Iks was sentenced by a “Kaufiaroo Court” idler which he was tied to a stake. Someone poured kerosene ore rhim, and they posited brush tin .around him and the victim was burned there before three or four hundred klansmen dressed in full uniform.

A STORY OK HORROR. NKW YORK, April 10. Ludlow further testified Hint the Im porial Vizard, Htram Kvans, personal l.v directed the toi-ture of one man sen fenced to he flogged, tarred and feathered.

Ludlow said: “ Kvans was there and saw it all. Ho told how it should he done. The man was suspended over a barrel, his hands fastened to a stake in Iront ul him. His feet were held by two Klansmen. who stripped him to the waist. As he was flogged over the hack and shoulders with a loin.; leather whip he was warned to make no outcry. Melts rose in his hack and then his -whole body was stripped. Ihe tar was heated so it would run freely. Potatoes were placed in the man’s eves so that the tar would not blind him."

PROPOSALS. WASHINGTON. April it). Representative Lnguardin urged a reduction in immigration quotas, as a means of preventing a foreign country impressing naturalised American citizens. Chairman Porterhouse of the Foreign Affairs Committee endorsed the suggestion, when l.agurdin and Representative Kelly appeared before the Committee to urge the enactment of Kelly’s resolution, requesting the President to negotiate treaties to prevent impressment. C. S. WHEAT. WASHINGTON. April It).

The Agriculture Department an nouned the conditions of winter wheat on Ist. April its 68.8 per cent normal compared with 81.5 per cent in 1927 and 81.9 per cent for the average condition during the past 10 years. There was a decline in conditions ol wheat from first December 1927 to first April 1928 compared with an average decline during the past ten years of 2.1 per cent between these dates.