AMERICA AND JAPAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 107, 7 May 1924, Page 5

AMERICA AND JAPAN.

THE EXCLUSION ISSUE. ' PAN-ASIATIC IDEALS. '■ By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) i TOKYO, May 6. The Japanese Government, and the ountry generally, are extremely disppdinted over reports from Washington o the effect that the Japanese exclusion aw •will undoubtedly be adopted when he United States Congress votes upon he comimttee's report on the Immigraion Bill. There is, nevertheless, a spirit if resignation. The Chinese residents of Tokyo, taking idvantage of the situation, planned a arge public demonstration to protest j tgainst the restrictions on Chinese immi- 1 rration into Japan. Acting upon the idvice of the Chinese Minister, however, ;liey abandoned the plan, and instead a leputation waited on Baron Matsui, Minister of Foreign Affairs. The deputation stated that China ■xpected the same consideration from! Japan as Japan hoped to obtain from \ .he United States. The refusal of the! Japanese to permit Chinese immisrants ; lo land in Japan was, they said, an j insult comparable to the insult to Japan narked by the American exclusion proposal. It was. moreover, impossible, said the ieputation, for the coloured races to stand together while Japan herself nega tived that principle. —(A. and N.Z.)