AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1923, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. NARCOTIC TKAEEICKEES. (Received this day at Id. I r p.m.i OTTAWA, April 9. The. Canadian Government has ordered a search for an international licet of Narcotic tratlickois operating off the Canadian Coast. The Government lias also advised the League of Nations Secretariat of the Fleet's activities. It is believed that large quantities of drugs are smuggled from Germany to ■French and Spanish ports alter whicii they are shipped to a small island off Newfoundland, from which place smugglers run them into Canada end the United States. naval dkffnck. WASHINGTON. April 9. It is reported that President Harding has let limed to find the State and Navy Departments clashing on the question ef the elevation of guns for American capital ships. The President and Cabinet will Imve to judge the controversy. The correspondent ol the New i **i w ••Sun" says the Navy Department will not yield its viewpoint that a change in the gun elevations should he made in thirteen ships, hut on the contrary, while the State Department dees not contend that the gun elevation amt range increases are precluded t u Washington Treaty. Air Hughes does maintain that any such changes by the United States would be a signal tor other countries to do likewise. I ul> tne Washington Treaty would be disobeyed. . The correspondent adds that ini'at officers are so vigorous in demanding the Navy’s efficiency he increased that the controversy may become one of the most important which has confronted the Harding administration.