DRIFTING APART

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19204, 21 June 1924, Page 9

DRIFTING APART

AMERICA AND JAPAN. PAN-ASIATIC MOVEMENT. Press Aeoociation—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, June 19. (Received Juno 20, at 8.15 p.m.) The Evening Post’s Tokio correspondent says that officials arc not prepared to comment on tire American reply to Japan’s exclusion protest, but reliable sources reveal that it will neither augment the anti-American movement nor change the Cabinet’s policy, nor erase private resentment over discrimination. However, tho indications of graver consequences multiply. These are only surface evidences, but they all confirm the outstanding fact that America’s influence in the Orient has weakened. Observers point out that friendly relations are perhaps academically unimpaired, but the former quasi-Entente Cordiale has been replaced by polite tension which impels Japan to consider adopting another friend. Already she has shown her readiness to meet h ranee half way, and Moscow, seizing the opportunity', is offering Japan such concessions as will assure recognition of the treaty. The Chinese students have persuaded numbers of Japanese to join the PanAsiatic movement, thereby strengthening tho anti-foreign feeling. This apparently furnishes a common ground on which former enemies may meet. The latest recruit is Dr Sun-Yat-sen who, on behalf ■ till: China’s anti-foreign movement, is sending an emissary to iokio who will be received with honour. Evidently Japan will retain American trade, but is almost done with American principles and policies.—A. and N.Z. Cable. A cablegram from Tokio dated April ~ stated : The United States Ambassador (Mr woods) daily receives delegations urging him to use his good offices to prevent the enactment of the American immigration law. It is significant that most of tiro protests came irom the youth of Japan, such as students’ societies, the ioung Men’s Buddhist Association, and groups of Japanese who have been educated in America. It is predicted that exclusion will awaken tiro Pan-Asiatic movement as an effective world force. About the same time reports were received from Shanghai stating that tho 1 an-Asiatic movement to unite the coloured races had been joined by the an nnf' n V -r' a , ,lStS ’ wll ° were conducting th« TnMi f ßh in China, where urniS vi’ u h l d a,read y Promised Wh ' e the Kor eans and Japanese tffif mi 3 , r 6re 2 VOW £ dly sympathetic. In the meantime Sir Rabindranath Tagore lecturing at Shanghai, attacked Western w'i on Ra materialistic, saying that Westerners only sought the power of g ?,° d obtainmg political control. Sir Rabindranath iTrLT enthusiasticall y received by the Chinese university students, who were T? n / 3rabil,l y and imprestnf, ' . Bntlsh ’ Press was markedly «-■ ~