JAPAN

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 4 July 1921, Page 5

JAPAN

PURCHASE OF LAND

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

(Received July 4, 9.20 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, July 1

The Government agents hays' discovered that the Japanese paid three million dollars for land around Manzanillo, on the. Mexican coast, and are negotiating for the purchase of immense agricultural tracts arid fishing rights. They are spending fifteen'million dollars in; the lowter Californian peninsula.