AMERICA AND JAPAN

Evening Star, Issue 12989, 7 December 1906, Page 6

AMERICA AND JAPAN

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright THK SCHOOLS QUESTION. NEW YORK. December 6. The United Slate* Federal Government have commenced an action at San Francisco to test whether the State law permits the segregating of Mongolian children in separate schools. [The school trouble in San Francisco commenced in quite a. email way early in October, and did not become an international dispute of a .serious character until advices were received from Tokio reporting the intense indignation the insult had aroused. It appears that the San Franciaco Board of Education, acting under the authority of a State statute, passed a resolution that all children of Oriental parents should be excluded from the public schools and bo made to attend a school which was specially set aside for them. Notice was served on the principals of all schools, and Lite order canto into force. While the Coreans and Chinese obeyed the order of the Board, tho Japanese almost all refused to comply, and kept tltcir children at- home. The Japanese macio a formal protest to the Board, and several members appealed earnestly for a repeal of the ordinance. Prior to the tire of April last the Japanese children were allowed in American sclrools, only Chinese and Coreans beinug excluded.] THE MILITARY ARM. NEW YORK, December 6. (Received December 7. at 6.55 a.m.) President Roosevelt has assured tho Californian Congressmen that his Message was onlv meant to imply that tire military would be used to protect the Japanese from mob violence, not to enforce placing Japanese children in the schools. TOKIO PLEASED. TOKIO. December 6. (Received December 7. at 8.16 a.m.) President Roosevelt's Message is warmly praised in Tokio.