AMERICA AND JAPAN

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4150, 22 November 1920, Page 2

AMERICA AND JAPAN

TOKIO NEWSPAPER'S SANE WORDS. TOWARDS AN "UNDERSTANDING. (By, Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Aust.-i\.Z. Cable Association.) New York, Nov. 19. A message from Tokio reports that the newspaper Asahi-Shimbun asserts that America's naval policy is entirely under the control of naval beaurocrats, and some ambitious Americans who wish to crush Japan before the latter's power increases. The newspaper urges the Japanese Government to take the initiative towards an understanding which would eliminate useless naval competition. The newspaper also invites the Japanese Government to ascertain the United States' attitude toward Japan's acquisition of .rights and interests in Siberia. WAY DOWN IN TEXAS. New York, Nov.. 20. Speaking at .Austin, State Senator liledsoc announce his intention to introduce legistation patterned after the Caliiorrian law, designed to prevent the Japanese from acquiring the ownership of land in Texas. Senator I Bledsoe announced his intention to the establishment of a Japanese colony in the Rio Grande Valley, were in progress, and he would make every legal effort to block the understaking.