AMERICA AND JAPAN

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 14 February 1921, Page 5

AMERICA AND JAPAN

FRIENDLY RELATIONS DESIRED.

CALIFORNIAN LAND LAWS.

BY CABLE—i»BESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT (Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 v State Department omcials learn that the Japanese Government, owing to the pending change in the United

States' administration, has decided not to press the issues pending between Japan and the American Government, including the' Californian land law. It is also understood that the Japanese Foreign Office is satisfied with the recommendations for settlement made by M.. Shidehara on th© basis of the negotiations with Mr Morris.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1% , Viscount Inouye, a member of tne Japanese Diet, has arrived to purchase a million dollars' worth of steel fojr making machinery. He said-.he was confident 'that the issues between the United States and Japan could be settled on.a common-sense basis. The better classes in both countries desired' only friendly relations.