EQUAL EIGHTS.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15027, 22 March 1919, Page 5

EQUAL EIGHTS.

Paris, March 19.

Japan submitted an amendment to the Supreme Council, asking equal rights and just treatment within a country's borders for alien nationals of States which are also members of the League.

The Commission on the International 'Bureau is inviting the League of Nations to-.enforce its decisions. This decision is due to American opposition, -arising . regardiug American States •; rights. . a Australian delegates said it was impossible for the British Dominions to agree to the Japanese demand for ■equality of "treatment of all nationalities. The Australian desire was to build up an all-British population of jifteen millions at the earliest possible moment. If they opened the ■ door to Asiatic immigration, it would mean that they closed it to the Europeans. The Canadian delegate agreed.