JAPAN AND U.S.A.
AMENDMENT OF COMMERCIAL TREATY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, January 27. It ie understood that the substance of the Shidehara-Morris conclusions is an amendment of the existing commercial treaty between Japan and the United States, in order to grant Japanese subjects lawfully present in the United- States .equal rights with the nationals of any other foreign nations, except citizenship on naturalisation, and a revision of the existing “gentlemen’s agreement,” absolutely prohibiting Japanese emigration to the United States or Hawaii, but permitting it to the Philippines.
AMERICAN “AGENTS”
STEPS TO PREVENT MISCHIEF IN JAPAN. (Received January 20, 12.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 27. The police are considering plans for more effectively watching Americans residing and travelling in, Japan. The Japanese say • that they have evidence that some Americans are professing to be tourists and business men, but are really focussing their attention on military. matters and acting in cooperation with other Americans long resident in Japan. The Japanese suspicions were aroused through a number of alleged American agents reaching Korea and China, and communicating with each other by wireless.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10811, 29 January 1921, Page 8
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