EXCLUSION OF JAPANESE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19201, 18 June 1924, Page 5

EXCLUSION OF JAPANESE

REPLY TO PROTEST. HANDED TO MR uANIHARA. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, June 16. (Received June 17, at 8.5 p.m.) The reply of the United States to the Japanese protest on exclusion has been handed to the Ambassador (Mr Hanihara) by Mr C. E. Hughes (Secretary of State). It was announced that the document would be made public simultaneously in the United States and Japan on the morning of June 19.—Reuter. ATTEMPTED EVASION. JAPANESE STOWAWAYS HR OWNED*. NEW YORK, June 1.6. (Received June 17, at 9.50 p.m.) According to a message from Tacoma (Washington) six Japanese stowaways are believed to Jhavo been drowned when seven leaped from tho Alabama Maru and aternpted to swim ashore. One landed and was arrested by the immigration officials. —Reuter. LAW APPLICABLE TO INDIANS. A TEST DECISION. SAN FRANCISCO, June 16. (Received June 17, at 9.50 p.m.) Natives of India, both high and low caste, are included in the immigration restrictions, according to a decision of the Court of Appeal revoking tho citizenship of A. E. Mozundar, a high caste native of the Punjab.—Reuter.