AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1922, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION JAPANESE POLICY. NEW YORK, Oct. 16 The ‘‘Chicago Tribune’s” Tokio correspondent interviewed Mr Kotoa, who declared that Japan was determined to maintain the accord reached that had resulted in her alliance with the na- ! tions of the world recently. He dei fended civilisation and also the world [ war. Japan deemed the agreements reached by the League of Nations and the Washington Conference to be so valuable that they shall not he defeated h.v anv action of Japan. Japan must follow this policy, regardless atany Government ruling. An international customs agreement, providing for increased customs revenue for China, would soon he effective. The Japanese post offices in Chinn will close before next year. Japan desires China to stand uninenneed by any power, but at the same time to lie internally free from factional strife. Japan was ready to arrange for a modification of the dual citizenship laws by which foreign horn Japanese may renounce Japanese citizenship. avihum tree Ti,'i irmmvv

NEW YORK. Get. 1(5 Tl-e Radio Corporation of America has announced a new step in the development of radio telephone communication. Messages Between the l nited States and England have successfully been sent by election tubes, which have replaced the bulky apparatus and alternators regularly used. While tho latter will fill a big radio house, the nine tubes which, have supplanted them could he stored in a single ordinary trunk.