PEACE, PERFECT PEACE

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 2562, 20 December 1924, Page 9

PEACE, PERFECT PEACE

Washington Meads off Western Firebrand' DANGEROUS ANTI-JAPANESE AGITATION’ [By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Receievd Friday, 9.40 p.m.) WASHINGTON, December 18. The Administration to-day prepar ed for quick action to head off the Britten resolution. High officials deplored as untrue and dangerous his statement that Japan is preparing for war and. said the feeling between the two Governments was one of complete friendliness and understanding, despite the efforts of ill-advised groups in each country to stir up trouble. Representative Britten’s statement that the attitude of Japan before the League of Nations was in opposition to the principles of America was justification for the resolution is challenged by the officials, who insist that Japan’s attitude towards the League Arms Protocol was not aimed at the United States administration. “Japan, in fact, is the only Power with which this Government has no disagreement at the moment. There are several matters upon which we are negotiating with Britain, France, Italy and others, but with the Japanese Government we are in complete accord.”

BELLIGERENT ELEMENTS ON BOTH SIDES. JAPAN” NOT EXPECTING WAR. (Received Friday, 10.25 p.m.) WASHINGTON, December 18. Administration officials admit that the exclusion of Japanese immigrants from the United States is still used by certain elements in Japan to stir up hatred, but the Japanese Government, while deploring the form of the Exclusion Act, which is also opposed by President Coolidge, considers the matter closed. Officials declare a new spirit of co-operation has arisen in the Far East, under which Japan, Britain and the United States are working together for the solution of problems in the Pacigc, and a conference of white nations, as proposed by Mr Britten, would destroy that cooperation and play into the "hands of the belligerent elements in each country, which seek to emphasise the conflict between the white and yellow races.

Administration leaders emphatically state, on the basis of careful official reports, that the Japanese Government does not want and docs not expect war with the United States and is actively pursuing a policy of peace. Inflammatory statements in Japanese newspapers are attributed to the agitation here for a bigger Navy and anti-Japanese propaganda, which, in exaggerated form, is quoted in the Japanese press.