AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1928, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS

Australian Press Assn.- -United Service CANADIAN PROTEST. OTTAWA. April do. Canada has commiiii mated with Washington throiigli their M inisl er. Viiimnl Ala-soy. rogii riling endangering tlm live- of Canadian- from millets ol United State- Preventive Ofiieers. According to N. K. Robinson (Conservative member for Last Essex) several time- during the past month Canailmns have been nearly killed by bullets nn the border ol the cities o| Windsor. Walkeiville and Sandwich.

Till KM I'i.N 1-LYKRS. OTTAWA. April The destination of the Bremen Dycr- is -.till undecided, bill t bey will probably land somewhere in the vicinity of Quebec. Tin I.v thing at present certain is that they will descend somewhere on Canadian soil before proceeding to New lock as tinrelief plane is equipped with skis.

AMT’.R KAN RO.Vi BAST. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.l LONDON. April ffil. Tin- "Daily Telegraph” reveals the extraordinary iliaracter of American school Look history of the war and quotes scathing indictment by the A rmv and Nnvv Journal of Masliington. which parefullv examined lIP history books, on tin- part played by America. The Journal gives the bil-

lowing school book extracts as typical:— ‘‘’ll is a wonder the war lasted lilti-on minutes alter we arrived. The (let-mails were dumbfounded. We took SI. Michel in a few hours. Whole Ocrmaii battalion, ru-he.l from dugouts to escape annihilation. Wc charged across the river yelling like de,mans and fought I.t2CO.(X)t) men on a pine of ground three to five miles across and drove them to the Rhineland. We g-- i tied every objective, smashed every counter-attack, whipped twice our number and demonstrated that Americans with six months' train-

ing. were more than a mat; b tor (u-r----lioia veteran-. We took the bit in our teeth and nothing could -tup u-. The enemy quailed belore the Americans at Soi.ssnns and th-d at licllcau Wood. We opened Koch's eyes. We u- ,-d :o :n moil-sense ain I did not need an army stall. Tin- tide ol battle turned as soon as we arrived.

RRKMKN (’R KAY’S I NTKNTIONS OTTAWA. April I'd.

A message from .Murray Ray states the Rremen’s crew has now definitely decided lo abandon their plane at (In-cnly Island and return to civilisation in the Kurd relief plane, which llew to their assistance from Detroit. They have been weather bound for .several days and the latest report received declared they are convinced the difficulty in getting oil' in the I'remcn is too great.

Sl’KKl) DRIVKR KII.LK.I). NKW YORK. April 20. A message from Dayton states l-’rank Lockhart was killed when an automobile upset while travelling two hundred miles an hour in an effort to break the specif record. Lockhart was recently injured in the same manner and had only just left the hospital with one hand still partially incapacitated.