NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 November 1924, Page 7

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

NEWS M t CABLE AND MAIL “PACIFIC TO JAPAN.” WASHINGTON CONFER ENCE. ' CRITICISM OF WORK. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24. Mi*. Josephus Daniels, a former United States Secretary for the. Navy, cam© into prominence to-day by attacking the Washington disarmament conference results. “All that that conference did,” lie said, “was to give naval superiority to Britain, aircraft superiority to France, and the Pacific Ocean to Japan.” MOCK NAVAL BATTLE. TJ.S. fleMt MANOEUVRE.

SAN PEDRO (Cal.), Oct. 23. Before the United States Fleet departs on its 20,000-mile cruise, the scouting and battle flfeets will fight for the theoretical control of the Californian coast.

Admiral Gtifcmtz, Gommander-in-Chief, has anhotvriced that the scouting fleet will be commanded by ViceAdmiral M'cCully, and the battle fleet by Rleab-Admihal Robinson. After this great manoeuvre the fleets will come to San. Pedro for machinery overhaul. They will leave on April 3 for Australia, New Zealand and Samoa. JAPS IN MEXICO; SA;N DIEGO, Oct. 25. The Mexican authorities _in the State of Lower California have ordered an investigation of reports that Japanese hankers planned to place 20,000 Japanese colonists on a tract cf 100,000 acres hear Mexicali. The Publishers’ Association recently informed the Governor that an American from: Calexico’ California, across the border, went to Japan to make a deal.

Strong objections from residents of the Imperial .Valley, California, caused Mr. C. E. Hughes (U.S. Secretary of State) to make representations to Mexico. United States Department of Justice agents are also investigating , the reports. The project is said to include the reclaiming of land for cotton growing and the construction of hi ills. exeoutepln PAPIS. FOUR. BANK ROBBERS HANGED. TELEPHONE CLUE TO MURDER. MONTREAL, Oct, 24. Louis Morel, a former city detective, who turned bank robber; led a procession of four to the scaffold before daylight this morning, thus expiating a crime which resulted in the death of a bank messenger and a bandit. They were executed in pains, and the operation was completed within ten minutes. Police patrols guarded the streets within half a mile of the gaol. The capture of this giang was a smart piece of police work. In the dead bandit’s pocket was a slip of paper, containing a telephone number, and within an hour of the robbery the house corresponding to this number was raided. It yielded £6OOO in cash, and the names of the probable murderers, who were captured the evening, as. they tried to leave the city by train.