AMERICAN RELATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 20, 24 January 1924, Page 5

AMERICAN RELATIONS

A COMPLICATED PROBLEM

PROTECTING INTERESTS IN CHINA.

(DNJIED PRESS iSSOCUTIOH.—COMWSai.) (ADBIRALIAIf - NEW ZEALAND CABLI ASSOCIATION.) _. _. . TOKIO, 22nd January. 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 complicated 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.

Baron Matsuf, referring to China, said that outside interference in Chinese affairs should be studiously avoided, but Japan would take the necessary steps to protect her interests.

The Government had announced a policy of buying at equitable prices all foreign perpetual leaseholds in Japan, especially in Yokohama, where the foreign holdings pradominate. The United States was among the first to surrender two sites formerly ussd as a naval hospital and army quartermaster's coal depot.