AMERICA AND JAPAN.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1920, Page 5

AMERICA AND JAPAN.

•DANGEROUS VIEWS TB& OALIFOR2HAN QUESTION,' J j| By Telegraph.—Press "ty Tokio, ,;fj The newspaper Hochi Sblmbun *WM|a that the Japanese Government, as ft WIS suit of a recent Cabinet meeting, iritbjj vigorously pursue the lugotiatiang' ceming the American anti-Japanese islation/and firmly keep befor# the Lww gue of Nations the question of xannl equality. '''>3| Mr. Kodama, a Federal Tepresentt(lTW£ addressed a public meeting on tlie iratljM&j of the American-Japanese war, nounced American militarism, < Mjtfjjjij that, so long as a threatening liatftaLj existed beyond the Pacific, naval expansion could not cease. •' Police intervened, and silenced tM.; [ speaker. ~8 Mr. Hara, addressing, provincial nors, said that the situation in tile wOrli ' wag never more than ft Japan's problems hitherto had bean MB- ! lined to the Orient, but international; competition had arisen, resulting in ft marked increase;- in Japan's reaponiibßity to the world and expansion of her , national expenditure.—Aub.-N.Z. OMpJ Assn. ■ n . ' 'f'i \rr.oa t'£

Washington, Sept. 2s. State Department officials state, in mm negotiations with the Japanese AmbttuL*] dor' (Mr. Shidi Hara) that the tfaitMtjl States will maintain its position mi by the Lansing-Ishii agreement, lindflSp which Japan 'voluntarily undertakes to/.] prevent her citizens coming to tba> Unl- r .j ted States. The State Departawat do its best to avoid a conflict in.tile M+vJ gotiations as an outcome of the ese protest against the Califorwan StatjP!?j law prohibiting Japanese from - holdlng;--land.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. | New York, Sept, 28. j The Washington correspondent of th» ~ New York Times telegraphs that grati*. „ fying progress has been made in fort to reach a satisfactory relative to the California question other matters pertaining to the rightß 0f"-S Japanese nationals in the United —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. < :