EXCLUSION OF JAPANESE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19200, 17 June 1924, Page 8

EXCLUSION OF JAPANESE

MR WOODS LEAVES TOKIO. CHEERED BY THOUSANDS. TOKIO, June 5. Tho American Ambassador, Mr Cyrus Woods, has left for home. A crowd of 25,000 people cheered him continuously for 15 minutes, while the crowd within tho railway station was so great that the Ambassador was forced to carry his mother-in-law to protect her from possible injury. Tho platform was littered with flowers and Japanese shoes after the crush had departed. At the other end of the citv a mass meeting of 30,000 filled the groat Wrestling Hall. It was a national meeting of protest, attended by officials from all over Japan, who are in Tokio for the Imperial wedding celebrations. The meeting was orderly, but there wa 3 tense excitement, especially when it adopted a resolution to give a national funeral to the patriot who committed hari-hari near the American Embassy on. Saturday, as u protest against the exclusion la.w. JAPAN’S ANGRY PROTEST. BLOW TO NATIONAL PRIDE. LONDON, June 4. “Japan’s formal protest against America’s exclusion policy reveals dismay and resentment Loth at race discrimination and at the violation of tho spirit and text of the commercial treaty of 1911” (says The Times). “The American contention is that the Japanese, who formerly were excluded by their own Government’s voluntary action, are now placed on the same footing as all Orientals. It is this that Japan strongly resents, because of her unique position as a leader of the Orientals, their spokesman in world affairs, and hor representation, both on tho League of Nations, and at the Allied Ambassadors’ Conference. “Some Japanese are still allowed to enter the United States just as under the former agreement, therefore it would have saved much ill-feeling, with it s incalculable effect on world politics, i? the former understanding had been retained. “The American House of Representatives’ appropriation of £30.C09,CC0 for naval construction is ascribed to the disturbed state of Japanese and American relations. Meanwhile, the expansion of Japan creates a problem which, in tho future, will be as acute for the British Empire ag lor the United States. ’’ “Canada is considering the imposition of further restriction of Japanese imimuni ticn. Apparently Australia has solved the problem by the dictation of a test, hi.u Jnna-nese migration to Brazil and the Asiatic mainland does not provide (fie necessary attractions for .T-p-aese la bon-. Consequently we regret (bat Briton is advertising for sale the plant cr’l.wted at Singapore, apparently for Ifie construction of a, base. In view of the possibility of fresh complications in tfie Orient, it is whollv unbecoming for Britain to fie f ,o. barred from adequately safeguarding her interests.”