AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1922, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

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FORTIFYING ISLANDS. NEW YORK, January 21. The “Chicago Tribune’s” Tokio correspondent states: Japan is steadily carrying on a programme of fortifications. On the Bonin Islands big gun emplacements are virtually completed. The plans on these islands include an extensive aviation base and the widening of the channel to permit egress for destroyers in eight directions. WHAT JAPANESE SAY HONOLULU, January 20. Prince Tokugawa, in a speech,, said that if the Washington Conference had not accomplished more than the fourPower Treaty, it would have been no small achievement, but it did far more^ It brought the Far Eastern problem**: nearer solution and demonstrated to , the world that Japan wants peace and ? not war. . It had secured peace for j ten years, a period which it seemed probable will bo prolonged indefinitely. ! ! TEX RICKARD CHARGED. ! (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 21. Tex Rickard was arrested and charged with criminally assaulting a .fifteen year old girl. ff)wo other girls of twelve and eleven years of age are held as material witnesses. The Society for the prevention of cruelty to children brought the charges. Rickard pleaded not guilty, and'was released on ' a thousand dollars bail."