BIG WORKS AT JAVA.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1922, Page 1

BIG WORKS AT JAVA.

SYDNEY, June 20. The Commnmrealth Bureau of Commerce and Industry has received information that big German steel works are to lie established in Java, and that the Governments of the Netherlands, anil the East Indies have given big contracts without competition to Herr Similes’ group in consideration of the establishment of the works. Coal is to be obtained at Sumatra and iron ore in Java. THE WORLD’S UNREST. LONDON, Juno 20. The U.S. Chief Justice, Mi' Taft, speaking here at a dinner given by the Pilgrim's Obit,. said:- “Since the war. we are all going in for a period of convalescence, and the bickerings should be regarded as symptoms of recovery. America’s refusal to come into the League of Nations was due to tin' difficulty of overcoming the Ameri can popular conviction, confirmed as it is bv 12.1 years’ experience, of the wisdom of America’s keeping out of European entanglements: but Americans are now acquiring a consciousness of their share of the resposibility for what the world does.” Air Taft concluded by begging Britain not to lie misled by the temporary exbullitions of American faeitons, but to count on fundamental public opinion in the United States which regarded the maintenance of friendship with Britain as a most necessary security for the peace of the world.