MR. WOOD LEAVES TOKIO.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16458, 17 June 1924, Page 9

MR. WOOD LEAVES TOKIO.

CHEERED BY THOUSANDS. TOIK’IO', June s.—The American Ambassador, Mr. Cyvus Woods, has left for home. A crowd him continuously for 15 minutes, while tire crowd within the railway station was so great that the Ambassador was forced to carry his mother-in-law to protect her from possible injury. The platform was littered with flowers arnj Japanese shoes niter the crush had departed. At the other endi of the city a. mass meeting of 30,CC0 filled the great Wrestling Hall. It was a. .national meeting of protest, attended by officials from a'i.l over Japan, ’who are in Tokio for the Imperial wedding .celebrations. The mooting was orderly, 'but there was tense excitement, especially when it adopted a resolution to give a national funeral to the patriot who committed hara-kiri near the American Embassy on Saturday, as a. protest against the exclusion law. JAPAN’S ANGRY PROTEST. < BLOW TO NATIONAL PRIDE. LONDON, June 4.—“ Japan’s formal protest against- America’s exclusion policy reveals dismay andi resentment both at race discrimination and at The violation of the spirit and text of the commercia'i; .treaty of 1911,” says the Times. “.The American contention is that the Japanese, who formerly were excluded by their own. Government’s voluntary action, are now placed on the same 'footing as all Orientals. It is this that Japan, strongly resents, because of her unique position as a. leader of the Orientals, their spokesman in world affairs, and her representation, both, on the League of Nations, and at the Allied Ambassadors’ Conference. “Some Japanese, are still allowed, to enter the United States just as under the former agreement, therefore it would hojve saved much, ill-feeling, with its incalculable effect on. world politics, if the former understanding had been retained. The American House, o.f Representatives appropriation of £30,000,000 for naval construction is ascribed to the disturbed state elf Japanese and American relations. Meanwhile, the expansion of Japan creates a problem which, in fife future, will lie as acute for the British Empire as for the United States! “C;lnn.da. is considering the imposition of further restriction, of Japanese immigration. Apparently Australia has solved the problem, by the dictation test, but Japanese migration to Brazil and the Asiatic mainland does not provide the necessary attractions for Japanese labor. * Consequently wo regret that Britain is advertising for sale the plant, collected at Singapore, apparently for the construction, of a, base. In view of the possibility of (fresh complications in the Orient, it is wholly unbecoming for Britain to he debarred from adequately safeguarding her interests.”