“SEEDS OF WORLD WAR.”

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 104, 28 January 1924, Page 7

“SEEDS OF WORLD WAR.”

IF UNITED STATES ENACTS EXCLUSION LAW STATE OF POLITICS THREATENING TO PRECIPITATE REVOLUTION SENSATIONAL SPEECHES IN JAPANESE HOUSE OF PEERS Sensations wei’e created in the Japanese House of Peers by statements that the seeds of a future world war would be sown if the United States enacted the exclusion law, and that the present state of politics threatened to precipitate a revolution because of the excessive representation of the peerage in the Cabinet.

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(Reo. January 27, 5.5 p.m.) Tokio, Jemuary 25. The House of Peers wae the scene of a double sensation. Baron Sakatani, ex-Minister of Education, supplementing Baron Matsui’s remarks regarding the treatment of Japanese on the Pacific coast of the United States, declared: “The seeds of a future world war will be sown if the United States enacts on exclusion law. Japanese cannot submit to the'humiliation of being treated like negroes. It requires no prophet to predict a crisis in American and Japanese relations if the measure passes.” Later Marquis Tokugawa, making bis first address in ten years, astounded his Conservative colleagues by a heated attack against the Government declaring that the present state, of politics threatens to precipitate a revolution, because of the excessive representation of the peerage in the Kiyoura Cabinet. Marquis Tokugawa added that he would seek to persuade the Ministry to resign. Marquis Tokugawa’s speech caused visible discomfiture to his cousin, Prince Tokugawa, who was presiding, but if gained the support of many peers.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [The Foreign Minister, Baron Keishiro Matsui, addressing the opening of the session of the Imperial Diet, declared that the treatment of the Japanese on the Pacific Coast of the United States was regrettable. This problem was exceedingly compli-

eated and delicate, and the Government was paying special attention to it. “We are putting forth our best efforts in order that the problem may be treated in a spirit of mutual respect by both sides,” he stated.] PROTEST RECEIVED BY UNITED STATES CHARGE AGAINST JAPANESE (Rec. January 27, 11.50 p.m.) Washington, January 26. The United States has received the Japanese protest against the proposed immigration law now pending in Congress, barring all Japanese immigration to America and over-riding the socalfed “gentlemen’s agreement,” whoso purpose was to avoid touching the susceptibilities of the Japanese people by openly declaring the Japanese immigrants persona grata The Western Coast States, however, charge the Japanese with not abiding .by the “gentlemen’s agreement,” since the number of Japanese is growing. The protest does not question the United States’ right to pass such legislation, but asks whether the United States wishes to discriminate against a friendly country.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.