BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

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FORD’S FINANCE, NEW YORK, Jan 14. ' Henry Ford has announced his wil- j lingness to buy the entire French Navy. His friends are unable tot tell whether to takei him seriously, though he has been doing unusual financing and loaned eight million dollars to a lifelong ( friend, Heliry Reland, to save the Lin- ' coin Motor Coy. Ford has certainly exchanged cables with. Paris. The French Government asked him if he would buy certain ships as junk and Ford replied that he wanted the entire navy or nothing.

JAPAN AND SHANTUNG. Jleceived This Day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jail. 14

Tlie “New York Evening Post’s” Tokio correspondent learns the Japanese Cabinet has decided to make concessions in regard to Shantung, which are sure of Chinese acceptance.

AMERICAN POLITICS. (Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 14

It is announced tlie Postmaster-Gen-eral, Mr Ilayes (Chairman of tlie National Republican Committee) who is responsible for Mr Harding’s election, is shortly resigning from tlie Cabinet, to take a position as head of the National Association of -Motion Picture Producers and Distributors. Jt is understood his salary trill be $150,000 yearly.

PIIOH TUITION STATISTICS. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 14. The Prohibition Bureau summary for 1921 shows arrests for drulikeness decreased by sixty per cent; 950,000 gallons of liquor wore seized; 30,000 criminal prosecutions were begun, and 20,000 convictions made; property seized totalled $12,907,000.

OBITUARY. LONDON, January 15. Obituary—Sir John Kirk, who acqbmpairied Livingstone to 'Africa.

REDUCING WAGES. | Received This Day at 12.25 p.m.) ! LONDON, Jan. 15. j Abcrdocn granite merchants are noti- | fving a reduettion in wages owing to j slackness of .trade. They state English ( cities are importing tombstones and war memorials made in Germany from Scan- ' dinavian granite. 1