JAPANESE PENETRATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1920, Page 5

JAPANESE PENETRATION .

FEARS IN CALIFORNIA. '''ALMOST A MENACE." Vancouver, Feb. 80. Mr. J. D. Phelan, a Californian Senator, speaking in the Senate, said that he had informed that when tho vote was taken at the Peace Conference on the racial equality proposal which the Japi aneae sponsored, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Lloyd George, fearing the opinion of Canada and Australia, voted against the' measure, and although a total of 12 favored the amendment, and only six were against it, Mr. Wilson succeeded in killing it by ruling that, because the vote was not unanimous, the amendment was tost.

Mr, Pliplan supported Mr. H. C. Lodge'a reservation on tho subject of domestic V questions, because it would prevent Japan, from appealing on the equality question ,■ to the League of Nations. "Orientals in California had demon' atrated their ability to drive the white* off the land," said Mr. Phelnn,."and in-ter-marriage would develop mongrels, who would ultimately replace the. Oau-' easian." 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 thejr had won it by force of arms.