AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1922, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

i - . ? • tmi'.Ai-IAK N.Z. CAiiLiK ABflOClA’liON. JAPAN AND CHINA. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) ! NEW YORK, Aug 23. . The Chicago “Tribune’s” Tientsin , correspondent states the Japanese are trying to trade their concession here far ■ Itnvicr German concession, offering a bonus of several million dollars, which Japan claims will assist China over the present crisis.

I CHINESE RAILWAY. ; (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) 1 . WASHINGTON, Aug 23. ! It is learned that United States I proposed the Allied Powers should re- ! iinuisli control of the Chinese Eastern railway upon the Japanese evacuation of Siberia. Japan replied accepting. INCREASED WAGES GRANTED (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) • WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. A New York message states Bethlehem Dackawanna Steel Corporation has announced a twenty per cent, wage increase, similar to United States steel cabled yesterday. Pittsburg Coal Operators Associa- j tion lias asked the strikers to return ; to work under the wage agreement j reached a Cleveland Conference. Own ers are receding from the stand for | lower wages in non-union mines of West Virginia and have increased wages from 468 cents a day to 718. .MINERS START WORK. NEW YORK, Aug 23. Thirty thousand miners have returned to work in Indiana, having accepted th e terms of the Cleveland Agreement.

REWARD FOR CURES. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Aug 23 In tile Representaties, Mr Sproul introduced a Bill providing for a Government reward of a million dollars payable in ten annual instalments, to any person discovering a successful cure for tuberculosis, pneumonia, cancer, epiTspsy, and dementia.