JAPAN AND AMERICA.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 25, 29 January 1921, Page 7

JAPAN AND AMERICA.

QUESTION OF IMMIGRATION. ' SUPPORT FOB CALIFORNIA. WASHINGTON, January 28. It is understood that Mr. Hiram John- | son, senator for California, will oppose j most strenuously the Ambassadors' agreement to modify the Japanese treaty concerning emigration when it reaches the Senate. Mt. Johnson is one of the most forceful and powerful leaders in the Senate, and it is expected that he alone will be able to I accomplish the defeat of the agreement. He has already declared that he stands exactly where California stands. He ■ will get the support of the Pacific Coast States, and probably the Southern States, who consider the question as a challenge to the rights of States.— (A. and N.Z.) AMERICANS IN JAPAN. AROUSE SUSPICIONS. NEW YORK, January 28. The Tokyo correspondent of the "Chicago Tribune" states that it is understood that the foreign affaire sec- ■ tion of the Tokyo police is considering, plains for a more effective supervision of Americans residing and travelling in Japan. The Japanese say that they have ' evidence that some Americans professing to be tourists or business men are really ! focussing their entire attention on mili- , ; tary matters, and are acting in co-opera-. : tion with other Americans long resident j in Japan. Japanese attention has been | aroused by the number of alleged Ameri■can agents reaching Korea and China,<j and communicating with each other by wireless.— (A. and N.Z. Cable). CONTROL Or TAT QUESTIONED. LONDON, January 28. j The United States has raised the qnes-! tion whether the island of Yap, through" which the New Guinea-Shanghai cable' and the San Francisco-Celebes cable pass, . has been handed over to Japan as man- i datory. Japan claims it has, but the j United States asks that Yap shall be internationalised. — (A. and N.Z , . Cable.) , AIRSHIP ADRIFT. ! RETURNS SAFELY TO HER BASE j 1 (Received 10.30 a.m.) j LONDON, January 28. ! Airship R34, after making a bad landing in Yorkshire, which damaged her I engines and propellers, was blown out' to sea. A report received at the Ad- j ! miralty stated that she was afloat and iin no danger of sinking. Destroyers raced to the rescue, but eventually the; big airship returned to her base under low speed.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) FREIGHTS_TO FALL , BRITISH SHIPPING TROUBLES. (Received 11 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. Sir Kenneth Anderson and Mr. J. i Geddes (directors of the Orient Shipping I Line), who are in Australia, trying to ; arrange for the renewal of the mail j contact with the Commonwealth. Government, predict that there will be a fall in freights, which will still further accentuate the troubles which British shipping ; is at present experiencing.—A. and N.Z. SWISS AND RUSSIAN TRADE. i (Received 10.30 a.m.) GENEVA, January 28. ! The National Council has rejected by I ' a large majority a Socialist motion in favour of the resumption of trade with , Russia.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)