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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 28 April 1924, Page 5

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EXCLUSION FROM AMERICA

»V CIBLA--PK££b ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHI TOKIO, April 24. Mass meetings of all classes have been held in Tokio and Osaka, protesting against the American immigration lew.

The League of Nations Association adopted a resolution appealing to the League of Nations Union at Washington to use it s influence to prveent tne Bill becoming law.

The Premier is credited with a statement to the Privy Council to the effect that the Government is convinced that the question is soluble by a direct appeal to the American people, to which Cabinet is directing its efforts. WASHINGTON, April 26. President Cooiidge •is attempting to work out an arrangement with respect to Japanese exclusion which will satisfy those favourable to the restriction, and at the same time avoid any affront to Japan, laocording to an * official announcement, but details are not revealed, and it is impossible to state now whether anything could be accomplished in an arrangement of the nature under consideration which would permit the President to sign the Immigration Bill, regarding which those who have conferred with him declare he is considerably disturbed, and which he has beein urged by some Administration advisers to veto.