AMERICAN ITEMS.
STANDING ARMIES
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright-)
WASHINGTON. Feb. 25.
Senator Tvdings to-dav will offer a resolution in ilit* Senate proposing an international conference of tbe .signatories of tbe Kellogg Pact to agree to a Pact for be limitation of .standing armies, active reserves, and supplementary troops.
Tbe resolution will request'the President to send an invitation to the signatories of the adhering Powers to send duly authorised representatives to such a conference. ' This move is unique' in that heretofore tile Government lias concentrated its interests upon naval reductions. ANOTHER. CANAL. FOR- CENTRAL AMERICA. WASHINGTON. February 23. The U.vS.A. Senate lias passed a resolution appropriating 150,600 dollars for surveying a proposed inter-oceanic canal through Nicaragua (as cabled on March 27tli, 1928. WHEAT POOL PAY-OUT. OTTAWA, February 26. E. B. Ramsay (General Manager of tbe Canadian Wheat Pool) stated that an interim payment- on 1928 crop, totalling over six million dollars will be distributed to pool members of Western Canada.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1929, Page 5
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