JAPAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16801, 4 April 1919, Page 7

JAPAN.

CLAIM FOB NATIONAL equality. IMMIGRATION A DOMESTIC ' CONCERN. • f Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. ; ■' ' PABIS, April 2. .«■■■ Baron Makino, Speaking to an'; American interviewer, said Japan was not too proud to fight, but was too proud to accept a .position of racial inferiority when dealing -with, associated nationsJapan wants nothing but justice. Ho admitted that immigration was a matter of domestic legislation, which l jaach country must fo litiself decide. Baron Makino frankly asked the friendship of the TJnitol States oil tho basis of Japan's honest aims iio-t menacing any nation. IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. | RACIAL' BAR. / ">.v LONDON, April 2. In/ reply, to questions in the Hbuso of Commons regarding the; Americans' refusal to co-operate wvbh the ■ Japanese when attacked by Bolsheviks near Blafovyeschenck, Mr Ckuxchill said the American Commander thought the forces might be insurrectionary persons mistaken for Bolsheviks. ~ The British troops were not asked to quell the disturbances, but they would co-operat9 with' other forces, including Americans, in maintaining order in ardhs where for the' time being, they. , were . stationed.

Mr Wddgewtood asked for an assurance that British troops would co-operat© with Americans but not with Japanese, and on cries 6f "Oh," Mr Wedgewood sflid: "T?ecan«A thev are white men.'' Mr Clmrcliill said the matter must b'& left to the discretion of the officers on the spot. In. this instance it was undoubtedly a ; well armed force <,f Bolsheviks. v