AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

SCHOONER RAMMED. NEW YORK, Oct. 29,

A message from Priuocdown, Massachusetts states that the fishing schooner Avalon was rammed and sunk to-day in a dense fog by the steamship President \V. Wilson. Sixteen of the crew tiere drowned.

STIRRING UP RACIAL HATRED

NEW YORK. Oct. 28. Judge Dennison, addressing women at the George Washington Sulgrave Institution, referring to Thompson, said: "It seems a pity that in times of peace and goodwill, a man in Chicago should be stirring up racial antagonism that tends to destroy the good feeling which for ten years has grown up between us.” Dennison, referring to Senator Borah, said he wag, astonished that the head of the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations was a man who had admittedly never visited any other country. The most astounding thing was that he persistently refused, because of the fear that it would alter his American point of view to go to other countries and see what the minds of others were.

AUSTR A LI AN’S CLAIM. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29. James Clark, of Newcastle, Australia, is here seeking to establish a relationship claim to a share of the fortyseven million dollar estate of Senator William A. Clark, of Montana.