JAPANESE PROTEST.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144070, 15 April 1913, Page 3

JAPANESE PROTEST.

AGAINST CALIFORNIAN BILL. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. TOKIO, April 1-1. Japan has protested against California’s anti-Japanese legislation. The irritation is growing. One party proposes a Californian boycott. Tho newspapers describe the legislation as as great a breach of treaty as the Panama Bill. Tho Chamber of Commerce has cabled to commercial heads in San Francisco and Los Angeles emphasising tho probable loss of trade.

The foreign press declare that tho situation is an object lesson to Japan, where foreigners are not allowed to own land, despite the Diet’s law of 1010, which has not been promulgated.