AMERICAN CABLE NEWS
Australian Press Assn.—United Service STORMS IN AMERICA. CAUSE GREAT DAMAGE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 13. A message from Atlanta, Georgia, states that four persons were killed in tropical storms which struck North and South Carolina to-day, after working their way from tile West Indies through Florida to Georgia last week and doing damage amounting to many million dollars there, wiping out whole towns, uprooting orchards, and flooding wide areas in the Piedmont section. Carolina has been badly hit and to-night flood conditions caused by unprecedented rains menace several communities, crippling communications, disrupting power services and paralysing railway and highway traffic.
HONOLULU, August 11
Replying to the welcome addresses by Governor Wallace Farrington, also Alexander Ford, at the opening of the conference, Mrs Bischlieith Besal on behalf of the Australian delegation expressed the hope that they would take back to the newest civilisation, the spirit and ideas of the oldest civilisations. She said the greatest democracy was found in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
-Mrs C. A. Fraer expressed the good wishes of New Zealand women, including Maoris.
DRY LAW EVASIONS
OTTAWA, Aug. 10
A message fom Windsor states that liquor worth several million dollars was seized by the Ontario Government along the United States border, and prosecutions have !>een launched against every border exporter for unlawful trading. Twenty-eight firms are involved.
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