AMERICA AND JAPAN.

Otago Witness, Issue 3487, 11 January 1921, Page 16

AMERICA AND JAPAN.

NEW YORK, January 6. A message from Harlington, Texas, reports that a committee of citizens met two Japanese families, who arrived to take up land in the Rio Grande Valley, whion they had purchased through a Japanese agent in California. The committee pointed out that their presence was not desired, and asked them to leave forthwith. A similar incident occurred earlier in the week. The Japanese departed without protesting A Sacramento telegram states that a Bill forbidding the alien ownership of land, and a rdftlution memorialising the United States Senate not to make a treaty with Japan which would weaken the exist-! ing anti-Japanese law, have been introduced into the Californian Legislature. These measures are the result of reports on the pending Japanese-American Treaty, which contemplates naturalisation of Japanese residents in the United States.