JAPAN AND AMERICA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19195, 11 June 1924, Page 7

JAPAN AND AMERICA

THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM. REPLY TO JAPANESE PROTEST. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, June 9. The United States Government’s reply to Japan’s formal protest against exclusion will probably be handed to Mr Hanihara on Tuesday. It is understood that the Government will definitely and clearly state that there has been no violation of existing treaty obligations. The reply will be dignified and friendly, but firm.—Sydney Sun Cable. RESENTMENT IN JAPAN. BOYCOTT OF AMERICAN GOODS. TOKIO, June 9. The political ruffians who on Saturday invaded the Hotel Imperial, interrupting an American dance, called a mass meeting at the Methodist Church and adopted a resolution demanding that the churches under the American tegis should not tolerate the United States exclusion clause, and should not only refuse further contributions from the United States, but expel all American missionaries from Japan. The newspaper Yoroclzu announces that tire boycott of American goods has now been extended northward to Manchuria and the island Hokkaido (or Yezo, the northernmost of the main Japanese group). The kinema houses in Tokio have agreed to discontinue showing American films after July 1. —A. and N.Z, Cable.