JAPAN AND AMERICA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15301, 24 August 1920, Page 5

JAPAN AND AMERICA.

(Received Apgqst., 24, 10.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, August 23. Reports from. Tokio -''indicate* that the, new American shipping law continues; to cause grave concern m Japanese tracL" ing and shipping circles. In view of the; alleged possible menace to Japanese transportation, between Japan . and, America advices state that leading; Japanese steamship^ companies -"doing business with America are preparing an, energtic campaign against the new shipping ' : legislation of - the ■ • American . Gov- •' ernment. ' '..'; ..',.• *■.... r y y-' •-,-.' Ifc is pointed out. that the failure of -■ the United States to inform the public, of the 1 character of the Japo- American i correspondence concerning Saghalfen ap-i pears to bo due to the United »States' conviction that m the' intereSta' of 'gcod; relations between the t^o' 1 Governments there* should' be' as - ; little y discussion - hi:, passible! 6n the prevailing differences be* 'twe&n ; Japarir and An-erica.'. 7 • < •' -•■-'.*.- .PEKIN, August '22. A group of Koreans protested; against Japanese rule' in their country to -Senator^ Harris ahd Representative' Porter, : of the United -States. '"The -Korean's 'ttrgetf that assistance be, sent *them . frorii' 1 America." A warning by Japanese that' Korea 'was infected, withy cholera failed^ ►to prevent the Americans 'from visiting. Korea on the way to Japan.-^A: > and i NvZ.-C.A. ' ••- >■'••- : • -..■■...-..- 7,