AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1921, Page 1

AMERICAN ITEMS.

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. GERMAN CARLES. WASHINGTON, February 23. State Department officials announce r EranceN acceptance of the United States contentions regarding the division of the German cables. This makes the prospect of an agreement more hopeful. The French Government- has accepted resolutions adopted by the December Conference providing a modus vivendi for the operation of these cables if an agreement is not reached before March 10.

AMERICAN NAVY

•NEW YORK, February 24. Hear-Admiral Hug, the new- ( mandant of the New York navy yard, declared at Cincinnatti: “If the United States stops building battleships, it will he because some other nation lias not the money to build and wants the United States to quit. I know that some of you will catch your breath if I say that we must have a navy large enough to fight England. Jn England there is an open discussion as to what kind of a- navy will he needed by England in the case of trouble with the I nited States. We must know in the navy against whom we :;:•<• to build ships, so that we can construct different ships against Japan than against England.”

CUBAN SUGAR- CHOP. NEW YORK. February 23 Despatches from Havana state that the Ctilfjii Finance Committee have fixed the price of the Cuban Sugar. The figure is at 4/ cents per lb. 0.f., for ICO,OOO tons of sugar which is ready for shipment . AMERICAN LABOUR FEDERATION. WASHINGTON, February 23.

The representatives of nineteen m ions affiliated with the American Eedi ration of Labour have adopted result tions indicating that the organisatio will oppose the efforts of the employoi lo employ non-union labour; also th reduction of wages, profiteering, an secret coercive measures which the cm plovers are alleged to have adopted. The organisation has further indi fated that it will strive to induce tin Harding administration to adopt cor tain social and Labour measures.