JAPS-RUSH AMERICA

Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9800, 9 May 1924, Page 5

JAPS-RUSH AMERICA

SIX THOUSAND WAITING TRANS- . PORTATION.

THIRTEEN SHIPS DUE TO ARRIVE BEFORE JULY.

United Press Association. —Copyright. (Received May 8, 10.20 p.m.) SAN FRaNCISCO, May 7. Niciiibei, the .Japanese newspaper pubishod here, asserts that six thousand Japanese are waiting in Japan for transput tation to Sun Francisco, including relatives sent ior by tiio president or the Japanese of California under the terms of the “Gentlemon’s agreement” and brides who would be unable to enter the Uniteu States after July 1 if the exclusion feature of the Immigration Act be made effective at that date. The newspaper gives the names oi; thirteen ships arriving from Jftpun before July 1 and declares that tney cannot accommodate the number desiring to come. it declares that two thousand Japanese bachelors left San Francisco for Japan during March and April to obtain hi ides.—Reuter.

EXCLUSION PROVISIONS IN BILL.

MAY NOW BE POSTPONED TILL MARCH NEXT.

(Received March 8, 10.20 p.m.) WASHINGTON,. May 7. At the insistence of President Ooolidge, his confreres on the Immigration Bill have re-considered their decision on the Japanese exclusion provisions and will report a provision to make exclusion effective on March 1, J. 025, with the understanding, meantime, that a formal abrogation of the ‘‘gentlemen's agreement” be negotiated.Reuter.

FRIENDLY NEGOTIATION, NOT

LEGISLATION

SUGGESTED AS BEST SOLUTION

(Received May 8, 10.30' p.m.) NEW YORK, Alay 7

According to a despatch from Cleveland, the foreign commerce section or the convention oi the Chamber's of Commerce of the United States, numbering four hundred, unanimously resolved that friendly negotiation instead of congressional enactment would offer the best solution of the Japanese immigration problem. Half-a-dozen speakers four from the Western seaboard States —urged action as an expression in harmony with t lie traditional ideals of America’s foreign policy. Major Griggs (Tacoma) said; “We, on the Pacific Coast, do not feel the seventy-five years’ close and friendly relations with Japan should he swept aside in a moment of irritation. Reuter.