AMERICA.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 19, 12 May 1909, Page 7

AMERICA.

Strike at B.A. The Socialists and the Labour Federation have proclaimed a general strike in Buenos Ayres as a protest against the action of the police in quelling the disturbances which arose during the Mayday celebrations. They demand the resignation of the Prefect of Police. The port is paralysed, and the strikers are holding up the trams. A body of two thousand troops has been ormsred into the city to reinforce the garrison. - • -

Fighting is now proceeding in the streets between the strikers and the military.

There are now 200.000 men out on strike in Buenos Ayres. When the strikers assembled at the morgue to attend the funerals of their comrades killed in the May Day disturbances, they found that the police had surreptitiously removed the bodies. A violent demonstration followed, during which the tramcars were attacked. Welcome. The R.M.S. Maratna, on which a number of the Australian and New Zealand delegates to the Imperial Press Conference crossed the Pacific, has arrived at Victoria from Sydney and Brisbane. The Canadian Club gave the delegates a warm welcome and entertained them at a banquet. Canadian Grand Trunk. The Dominion House of Commons has passed a loan bill of two millions sterling for the Grand Pacific Trunk Railway. Spread of Wireless. Wireless telegraphy stations have been set up on the roofs of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, and the Auditorium Theatre annexe in Chicago. Press messages are now being daily exchanged between the two cities. The Unwritten Law. The Grand Jury of British Columbia has returned no bill in the case against Lord Sholto Douglas, charged with shooting an intruder in his house, with whom his wife, a former music-hall swger, was carrying on an intrigue, in November last. Sizeable Bag, Advices received from Mombasa, in British East Africa, state that exPresident Roosevelt has so far shot sis lions and Iris son Kermit one. East and West. Ex-President Roosevelt, in an article in the “Outlook,” emphasising that it is America’s duty to wait and sec whether Japan is able to prevent emigration to America of Japanese labourers and smalk traders in any appreciable numbers, remarks that if not, America must protect herself, either by treaty or legislation. Mr. Roosevelt urges America to continue to build a first-class fighting navy if she wishes to withstand any nation that might choose to disregard her policy concerning immigration, and for the protection of her interests in Panama or her citizens abroad. All Bands Drowned. The lake steamer Shores, while crossing Lake Superior, foundered at White Fish Point on the Bth. Her crew and passengers totalled twenty-one, and all were drowned.