EXCLUSION OF JAPANESE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19255, 20 August 1924, Page 7

EXCLUSION OF JAPANESE

THE MISSIONARY ASPECT. “A STAGGERING BLOW.’’ Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright. NEW YORK, August 18. (Received August 19, at Y-35 p.m.) A telegram from Chautauqua (New York) says that the first endeavour to remove the impediment to Oriental missionary work caused by the Japanese exclusion law was made by Dr W ilhatn Axling, a Baptist missionary, who, in addressing the convention of the federal Council of Churches, said that America s exclusion of the Japanese had struck the Christian movement in Japan a staggering blow and plunged the missionaries into a. dark Gethsemane. Dr Axling added that the exclusion law came as a dramatic crucifixion of national pride. “They asked me,’’ he said, “to shout from the housetops their plea to limit Japanese immigration to vanishing point, if necessary, but to treat them as brothers, and remove the sling and shame of discrimination on the basis of race.” He recommended the inclusion of a Japanese general quota permitting the entrance of a negligible number of Japanese, and secondly, a Congressional amendment of the law to confer privileges impartially regardless of race.—A. and N.Z. Cable.