AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1922, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS

US I KALIAN AND N.Z. CAULB ASSOCIATION. FATTY All BUCKLE. NEW YORK, June 12. I,os Angeles reports “Fatty” Arhuckle’s fortune has gone. He is planninjr mi jvppt*«il to I lavs to alloVv Mini to ret turn to pictures, in order to pay Ids heavy debts. Studio employees say Arbuckle has become a pitiful hanger on doing nothing hut haunt the studios where he is not permitted to act. Ihe comedian has sold his palatial home, and motors, amt is declared to he niless, owitig thousands of dollars.

RATIFYING TREATIES. WASHINGTON, June 12

It is understood the British Governor,it wili ratify the Washington Conference treaties, but will make an excention of the naval treaty. The others will he ratified by Privy Conned order without anv submission to Parliament. \ Bill giving effect to the naval treaty provisions will probably be shortly introduced to the British 1 nr* lismeiit. The Priw Council will act m tie eases of the other treaties ,I,erealter, and not before.

SOVIET GOLD CARGO. NEW YORK June 13

The largest single shipment of gold bullion over received in the United States has arrived from Denmark. It consisted of 35,000.000 worth of gold, and it is believed to he of Soviet origin.

K aTS'RR’S MEMORIES. NEW YORK. J"«e

The New York “Times” announces that an American syndicate b s purchased the world’s rights of the Kaiser’s memoirs of eighty thousand words in German. There are fifteen chapters its headings being: —‘«,Bisniark,” “Capriri”. Hohenlohe”. “Buelow”, “Betlimimn Hollweg”, “My assistance and our success with regard to public administration”. “Science . and Art”, “My World Relations”, “Army and Navy”. ‘Outbreak of War,” “The Pope and Peace”, “The War and My Abdication”. “At the Bar of a Neutral Tribunal”, “The Revolution”, and ‘The Future of Germany.”

CANADA AND U.S. <Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) OTTAWA. June 13. 'lne Finance Minister, Mr Fielding, in a speech in the Commons, stated the Government's fiscal policy was not protectionist. He assured Parliament that Government strongly favoured reciprocity with United States. Ho feared Canada had lost a golden opportunity by rejecting the compact of 1911, I lit it. if at any moment their American neighbours were prepared to meet i s in the spirit of 1911, we would he ready to discuss the matter with a willingness to make satisfactory arrangements.