JAPANESE PENETRATION

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12010, 11 March 1920, Page 2

JAPANESE PENETRATION

FEARS IN CALIFORNIA, iwuiinw. Vancouver, Feb 20. Mr J D Phelan, a Californian senator, speaking in the Senate, said that he had been informed that when the vote was taken »t the. Peace Conference on the racial equality proposal'whioh the Japanese sponsored, Mr Wilson and Mr Lloyd George, fearing the opinion of Canada and Australia,' voted against the measure, and although a total of twelve amendment, and *on ly six were against it, Mr Wilson succeeded in filling it by ruling that, because the vote was not unanimous, waslost. Mr Phelan supported Mr H C Lodge’s reservation on the subject of domestic questions, because it would prevent Japan from appealing on the equality question, to the League of Nations, “Orientals in California had demonstrated their ability tc drive the whites off the land,” said Mr Phelan, “and intermarriage would develop mongrels, who would ultimately relpaoe the Caucasian.” He said that the presence of Japanese military reservists in California constituted almost a menace. The Japanese were gradually acquiring California as permanently as though they ifad won it by fore?' of arms.