AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1928, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS

Australian Press Assn.—United Service CIRCUS TRAIN DISASTER. VANCOUVER, July 22. A message from Farmington, New Hampshire, states that three white men and five negroes are dead, and twenty’ persons are missing as the result of the wreck of a circus train near there on Sunday.

AMERICAN WHEAT CROPS. NEW YORK, July 22. A Chicago message states that there are indications that the spring wheat crop in the American northwest States will exceed expectations. A record crop of five hundred bushels is estimated for Western Canada. There is a shortage in the .European crops, and this is expected to consume the American surplus, though low prices are anticipated.

CANCER TESTS. HAVANNA (Cuba) July 22 There is a proposal for the voluntary legal inoculation of condemned convicts with icanoer germs for study. Tho proposal has been approved by the Board of National Sanitation. Convicts who would be cured in 12 years i would be freed. The proposal.now goes to the Cuban Congress.

CANADIAN ATTITUDE. OTTAWA, July 22. A report from Osliawa, in Ontario, states that the Minister of Agriculture Mr John Martin, of Ontario, addressing a picnic on Saturday at which "the Dominion Conservative Party leader, Mr Bennett also spoke, criticised the Australian trade treaty with Canada, saying that it had worked a grave injusiee to Canada. iSasktachcwan, ho said, had now played a prominent part in protesting against the treaty’, and it could not any longer ho said that Ontario or tho East of Canada was forcing the issue. ' OTTAWA, July 22. Air Martin. In his speech at Osliawa. said that one of the principal reasons for the recent Conservative victory in British Columbia was tho fact that the fruit and vegetable growers and the farmers in that province were finding it difficult to make a Living.

AUSTRALIAN TREATY CRITICISED '.Received this dav at 9.30 a.m.) OTTAAVA, July 23. Introducing, Air D. P. Bennett, Tory leader, at a picnic, the Ontario Alinister of Agriculture, Air Martin, criticised the Australian Treaty. He said it marked a grave injustice on the people of Canada. Saskatchewan played a prominent part in' the protests against the Treaty, so it could no longer he said the tariff issue had been forced upon the country by the people of the east. Mr Bennett pleaded for adequate protection for Canadian industries, and deplored the exodus of population to tlie United States.