AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1929, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS

AMERICAN CRUISER BUILDING. [United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] -WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Air Adams announced the present plans call for the completion itii ol the first five 10,004 ton cruisers authorised in February last, by June 193;}. Two tlierof arc now being lmib, while others will not be begun until alter the London Conference, although plans arc to be pushed immediately. Congress is expected to make reservations notifying the programme, if that j, s necessary to conform, to any decisions reached at the Conference. WHAT BRITISH OVERLOOKED. NEW YORK, Dec. (5. Mr Brookes, who was the guest of honour at the annual luncheon eff the United States English Speaking Union, speaking in view df President Hoover’s reference to the Court of International Justice, in his Congressional address, said:—“Ever since the League of Nations Conference at the time that Signor Mussolini seized Corfu, we have realised that the League of Nations cannot function properly until the United States becomes a member of it. Many in Australia believe that America let Australia and the entire British Empire down when it did not join the League, not deliberately, of course; but because of its governmental system of checks and balances, which required the Senate’s consent. We know nothing of those checks and balances, and we could not have foreseen that the Senate would not pursue the lines followed by President Wilson.” ATLANTIC STORM. ST. JOHNS Newfoundland) Dec. G. A message states that one man was drowned from the schooner Northern Light, while the rest were rescued by the steamer Baltic, six hundred miles south-east of Newfoundland. The Baltic cast q lifeboat adrift owing to the seas.