ANTI-JAPANESE FEELING.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12732, 24 August 1934, Page 5

ANTI-JAPANESE FEELING.

SECOND EDITION

POSSIBILITY OF CLASH. EFFORTS TO AVOID VIOLENCE. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK/August 23. A message from Phoenix (Arizona) states that Arizona’s Governor placed his faith in the commonsense of the citizens of the State to avoid physical violence in an attempt to oust Japanese agriculturists, and informed the State Department at Washington that he believed the problem could be solved without involving the United States and Japan in a controversy. Having received urgent requests from Washington to use his authority to avoid a racial clash, and having read a dispatch from Tokio stating, “Arizona has supplanted Manchuria as Japan’s principal trouble zone,” the Governor (Air B. B. Aloe fir) telegraphed the ActingSecretary of State (Air William Phillips) : “1 am in close touch with the anti-Japanese situation in the Salt River Valley, and I feel sure the com mon-sense of Arizona’s citizens will prevent any violence. You may l>e sure that the laws of Arizona will be enforced without fear or favour.” Air Fred Ruse, leader of the antialien group of farmers, issued a statement: “There will be no evidence against the Japanese if I can help it.” it is understood in Washington that the State Department fears reprisals on United States residents In Japanese-controlled Alanchukuo should the Japanese be ejected from the Salt River Valley by force. Several Court complaints have ben filed against both Japanese and white men qjleging a violation of the Arizona Alien Land Law.