THE UNITED STATES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3510, 21 June 1921, Page 16

THE UNITED STATES.

ADMIRAL SIMS RECALLED. WASHINGTON, June il. Mr Denby (Secretary of the Navy) has cabled Admiral Sims that the remainder of his leave is revoked, and that he mast return to America immediately and report. LONDON, June 14. The London newspapers, on the eve of his departure, generally praise Admiral Sims’s fearless attitude in connection with the American attacks. They assured him that lie had earned Great Britain’s goodwill throughout and since the war. The trouble in regard to Admiral Sims arose over his speech when he was entertained at luncheon by the English-speak-ing Union on June 7. He declared that he had been misrepresented bv the allegation that he was opposed to everything Irish and to the whole Irish nation, because in his writings, published in America, he had recorded fact* relating to Sinn Fein’s operations against America and her troops during the war, the result of which was that a great many lives and ships were lost through divert--ing the forces escorting merchant vessels and other important services. Admiral Sims said that the same influences were operating to-day, and were carrying on war both against America and Great Britain, and trying to sap the good relations between the two countries which were established while they were cooperating at sea during the war. The Sinn Fein sympathisers in America, said the Admiral, had the blood botli of British and American hoys on their hands. They were Americans when they wanted money, but Sinn Feiner's when on the platform. He strongly suspected that they were asses, but they had votes, and there were a lot of them. When interviewed after the first protests from America, Admiral Sims said : “ 1 stand by all that I said. I shall net repudiate a single word. I see nothing un-American in it. I intend to keep on saying the same thing.” Admiral Sims’s official recall to America has not been altered. His original plan was to catch the Olympic to-morrow, which is the earliest boat that he could return by-. Admiral Sims claims that the reports of hie speech were incorrect, the context being misleading and garbled. His actual statements were substantially the same as those he repeatedly and publicly made in America, and which he published in his book. THE PANAMA CANAL. WASHINGTON, June 13. The Senate Committee reported favourably on the Borah resolution providing for free tolls through the Panama Canal for American ships. LIVE STOCK INDUSTRY. WASHINGTON, June 13. The United States Government has taken definite steps for relieving the agricultural situation by bringing the farming organisations and financial interests together to work in co-operation in order to provide unlimited storage and to finance grain production. June 14. A group of Eastern financiers, headed by Mr J. P. Morgan, have pledged themselves to finance the live stock industry to the extent of 25,000,000 dollars, and the Middle West interests have agreed to supply the same mount. The loans will be in the form of long term credits of from two to three years, subject to renewal. This will obviate the necessity of Government aid being given as has been contemplated 1 era use of the gravity of the situation unless the bankers could be persuaded to he more liberal. The control will be put into the hands of a Western Committee, which will meet at Chicago to work out details. EXPLOITATION OF CHINA. WASHINGTON, June 15. Air Britten (Republican) moved a resolution in the House of Representatives demanding an investigation into the charge of the exploitation of China by Japan, with the silent consent and indirect co-operation of Great Britain. He alleges that 300,000,000 dollars which was lent by Great Britain to Russia found its way to Japan and thence to China, and wuis used by Japan to thwart American commercial ambitions in China. This course breaks the traditional American open-door policy. Air Britten, in commenting on the resolution, states that travellers in China immediately become aware that Anglo Japanese influences will dominate Chinese commerce, and that unless the United States protects China the time will come when Americans will he rank outsiders in the commercial, financial, and political development of 500.000,000 people. While the eyes of the world were turned to Europe, Japan secretly exploited China to such an extent that it may now be impossible to overtake this ascendancy and control concessions worth billions." THE LAW A BUNGLE. WASHINGTON, June 1 5. A minority report of the Immigration Committee of the House of Representatives, which has drafted a Bill to admit 6500 immigrants above the authorised June quota, charges tire foreign steamship companies and alien interests in many lands with seeking to ilout the United States immigration law. It is stated that they had ample notification oL the new provisions. The law is a bungle, and is carried out blunderingly and is contemptuously disregarded. NEW YORK, June 17.

A resolution which was submitted to the Federation of Labour Convention sitting at Denver asks Congress to protect

| the nation from the growing menace of Japanese immigration by the absolute exclusion of all Japanese.' FRIENDSHIP TO NATIONS. NEW YORK, June 15. _ The Secretary of State (Air Hughes), in а, speech at Brown University, said : “ It i undesirable that America’s influence j should be frittered away by relating ourselves . unnecessarily to political questions involving a rivalry of interests abroad with which we have no proper concern. It is equally true that America cannot escape her relation to the world’s economic problems. America's message of cordial friendship of all nations is that we have no question which mutual goodwill and tlie processes of reason cannot solve. We do not wish any exclusive advantages in possessions which as a result of the war have passed under new control. We simply ask that we be not excluded from equal privileges.” SWEEPING FREIGHT REDUCTIONS. NEW Y'ORK. June 16. To stimulate cargo movements from the Pacific Coast ports to Australia, the General Steamship Corporation, the Oceanic Steamship Co., the Canadian Government Marine, and tile Canadian-Australian Line have agreed to sweeping freight reductions. to become effective immediately. The tariff in regard to canned salmon lias been reduced from 25 to 20 dollars per ton; portable houses from 18 to 15 dollars per ton ; wallboard a similar reduction. The lumber rate will remain at 20 dollars ner 1000 feet. 'I he rates apply to Auckland, Wellington, Sydney, and Alelbourne. FOREIGN OBLIGATR/nS BONDS. WASHINGTON, June 18. i The Cabinet had an all-dav sitting considering the funding of the foreign financial obligations. Cabinet favours the conversion of promissory notes into longterm bonds, the interest to be fixed later. The American public will he permitted to subscribe when Europe is stabilised. Cabinet has definitely decided that obligations cannot, he forgiven, hut Cabinet is trying to fix the easiest method of payment with justice to American creditors. i j GENERAL ITEMS. “ Big Tim ” Alurphy, Chicago's most powerful Labour leader, has confessed to ' complicity in the mail robbery on April б. One hundred and twelve thousand nine ’ hundred dollars’ worth of loot, out of 350.000 dollars’ worth stolen, was rei covered. Two postal clerks are impli- : cated. WASHINGTON, June 16. Four persons were kille I and 35 injured when three coaches of the Chicago North- Western train • plunged through a bridge into a creek near Crawford (Nei braska). ; The House and Senate conferred on the Naval Bill, but broke up in complete disagreement. members of the Senate with- , drawing from the conference.