AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1921, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS

IUSTRAI.IAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. JAPAN AND UNITED STATES. NEW YORK, Aug. 3. Dispatches received at Honolulu from Tokio slates that Japan will insist that the Disarmament Conference shall discuss the Mexican and other American questions in cases where these have not keen settled at the preliminary conference. ' The newspaper “Ashia Shimhun” states* that besides the questions of Japan’s hold over Shantung and Yap, and her occupation of Siberia, Japan ■iill insist that 18 other matters shall ce'ue under the head of issues settled or issues pertaining to a single country, during the Far Eastern Conference. The newspaper adds : “The" Japanese Government is uncertain as to how these will lie received In the other participants in the conference. MATTERS FOR THE (TI N I*FRUXCE. NEW YORK. Aug 2. The “New York, Times” Washington correspondent reports: "AH the suggestions for a preliminary conference on disarmament before the main conference, which were made l>v England and Japan, have been withdrawn. Diplomatic exchanges are now in progress concerning the date of the big onference. The United States is hopeful that the conference will need not he biter than November. AMERICA’S IMPORTATION OF ' LIQUOR. WASHINGTON, August 3. Despite national prohibition, £5,000. 000 dollars worth of liquor were importer! during the fiscal year ended June, including 195,000 gallons, mostly imported from Britain and 2,000,000 dollars of wine from France.