DOUBLE SENSATION

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11738, 28 January 1924, Page 7

DOUBLE SENSATION

IN JAPANESE PEERS “SEEDS OF FUTURE AVAR WILL BE SOWN.” EXCLUSION LAW ATTACKED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Australian and i’J.Z. Cable Association. (Received January’ 27. 5.5 p.m ) TOKIO, January 25. The House of Peers was the scene S>f a double sensation. Baron Yoshiro Siikatini, ex-Alinistor for Education, supplementing Baron Motsui’s remarks, declared that the “seeds of a future world war will be sown if the United States enacts her exclusion law. The Japanese cannot submit to the humiliation of being treated -like negroes. “It requires no prophet to predict a crisis in American-Japanese relations if the measure passes.” HEATED ATTACK. Later, Marquis Tokugawa, making his first address in 10 years, astounded his Conservative colleagues by a heated attack against the Government, declaring xhat the present state ex politics threatens to precipitate a revolution because of the excessive representation of the peerage in the Kiyoura Cabinet. Tokugawa added that he would seek to persuade the Ministry to resign. Tokugawa’s speech caused visible discomfiture to his cousin, Prince Tokugaw’a, who was presiding, out it gained the support of many of the peers. The Japanese Foreign Minister, Baron Keishiro Alatsui, addressing the opening of the session of the Imperial Diet declared that the treatment of the Japanese on the Pacific Coast of the United Statee was regrettable. This problem was exceedingly complicated and delicate, and the Government was paying special attention to it. “We are putting forth our best efforts in order that the problem may he treated in a spirit of mutual respect by both sid;s,” he stated.