New York, Oct. 15.
Mr. Harvey Firestone, President of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Ca., announced to-day that he had signed an agreement with the Republic of Liberia whereby he obtained a 99 years lease of "milieu acres suitable for rubber-growing and a 2,000-aere plantation, fully' matured and bearing rubber. It was. planned, he said, to spend $100,000,- 000 in developing the lease Reuter's American Service, London, Oct. 16.
Everything is in readiness to gi the Prince of Wales a thunderous welcome to-day on his return from extremely successful tour. "Bri-Greatest Ambassador" is the text of newspaper leaders and full-age articles recounting the stages of the tour, and extolling the new friendships made and the old friendships consolidated, especially as regards Soath Africa, where the popularity with which the Prince was greeted alike by the Dutch, the British, the Indians and the natives, made the visit a landmark in the relations between Britain and the
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