BOYCOTT MOVEMENT

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 136, 10 June 1924, Page 7

BOYCOTT MOVEMENT

EVENTS IN JAPAN.

(Received 10th June, 11 a.m.)

TOKIO, 9th June. ■ The political ruffians, who 'on, Saturday invaded the Hotel Imperial and interrupted the American dance, called a mass meeting at the Methodist Church, and adopted a resolution demanding that the churches under the aegis of America should not tolerate the exclusion clause, and should not only refuse further contributions from the United States, but should expel all American missionaries from Japan. The newspaper Yorodzu announces that the boycott of American- goods has now extended northward to' Manchuria .and the island of Hokkaido. '

The cinema houses in Tokio have agreed to discontinue showing American films after Ist July. •.- -- - ■

While be was in the United States recently Mr. Frank Tait, the Australian entrepeneur, noted the feeling which was being aroused over the question ,of Japanese exclusion. There did not appear to be a general demand for the restrictions on the Japanese except"in" the Western States, where,, of course,".they were very numerous, especially, m • California, ; . It was stated, although''fie. did" not know how correct it was, .that Japan bought goods from the western, coast of America to the value of £90----000,000 per annum, and that they could obtain quantities of this same class ofgoods from other countries.. The feeling seemed to be if the ban against the Japanese operated, Japan would seek trade relationships with other countries and it was possible- that there was a chance of an extension of business developing 'between Japan and Australia' and New Zealand. Mr. Tait, in commenting upon the manner in which exclusion legislation was passed by Con.-' gress, remarked that the method adopt-' ed in enacting the immigration law against the Japanese was not one which appealed to British instincts