EXCLUSION LAW.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18100, 16 June 1924, Page 9

EXCLUSION LAW.

REPLACING JAPANESE.

PORTO RICANS FOR HAWAII.

(87 CABLE—PBBSS ASSOCIATION COPTBIOBT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Eeceived June 15th. 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 13. The first tangible economic result of Japanese exclusion is a prospective migration from Porto Eico to Hawaii, as an offset against the impending labour shortage due to the exclusion of Japanese. The War Department is conferring with Porto Eican officials and American planters in Hawaii, and has tentatively approved of a plan for the transport of Porto Eican labourers, thus relieving unemployment there by reducing the labour surplus, which exceeds 400,000. It is understood the War Department will recommend Congress to permit the use of Army transports, and offer passage to Hawaii at reduced rates. The Department asserts that migration should be encouraged from the standpoint of national defence, thereby overcoming the racial preponderance of Japanese in Hawaii, and making every immigrant a potential American soldier. RESENTMENT IN TOKYO.

(BX CABUt—PRESS ASSOCIATION OOFTBIGHT.) (StdSey "Sra" SaavJCE.) TOKYO, June 13. An American passenger in a municipal motor vehicle was ejected by the Japanese passengers. This was the first incident of the kind.