ANGLO-JAPANESE PACT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 252, 19 July 1920, Page 5

ANGLO-JAPANESE PACT

PREMIERS TO CONFER BEFORE .RENEWAL

RELATIONS BETWEEN JAPAN AND UNITED STATES (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Rec. July 18, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 17. The "Morning' Post's" Washington correspondent states that before the Anglo-Japanese Treaty is renewed 1 tho Premiers ol the British Empire will confer, probably in Western Canada, either at Victoria or Vancouver. .This will bo tho iiist time the Dominion Premiers havo assembled in conference outside London. It will appeal to the imagination to be meeting in one of the western outposts of the Empire, hence a city in Western Canada will be selected instead of Ottawa. If circumstances permit, Mr. Lloyd George and Lord Curzon will attend. • Washington has been advised of tho proposed conference and is keenly interested, owing to the strained relations existing between Japan and tho United States. These relations are not critical, but may at any time give cause for grave anxiety. Dislike of the Japanese is 60 bitter in California that tho Governor has appealed to 1 the Pnsidont, urging the passage of a law totally prohibiting Japanese immigration. At the State elections to be held in November

the Californians will vote upon a law which will practically escheat all landed property that Japanese own in California. The Japanese protested that the propse"!! legislation is discriminating, adding that Japanese pride and self-re-spect cannot tolerate it. Tho C'alifornians, however, say it is not a racial but an economic question. As a matter of fact tlie Califomian hatred of the Japanese is racial. The Japanese do not object to marrying a certain class of wmte woman, and the Californians fear flio purity of the native stock may lie contaminated. The Californians oppose the United States joining the League of Nations on tho ground that the State may be deprived of the power to enact discriminatory legislation.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

SITUATION IN CALIFORNIA ,(Rec. July 19, 0.35 a.m.) New York, July 17. The Houso of Representatives Committee continues to talcc evidence regarding the Japanese situation. It visited many towns and districts which the Japanese control in the San Joaquin Valley, an important wheat area. Japanese testifying, claimed that Japanese could develop lands which the white man was unwiLTing to touch. .Other witnesses stated that Japanese enter- only communities already settled.—Aus.-N.Z. Gable Assn.