JAPAN.

Timaru Herald, Issue 170269, 14 July 1920, Page 7

JAPAN.

CALIFORNIAN LEGISLATION.

RAISES A PROTEST.

By Electric Telegraph'—Copyright. Australian, and jN.Z. Cable Assu. NEW YORK, July 12. The "New York Times" correspondent at 'Tokio interviewed Viscount. Kaneko, a member' of the Japanese l J rivy Council, who said: "The action of some people in California' threatens to* strain, tlie relations between Japan and the United States: to a critical point.- I do not fear the danger of a breach of diplomatic relations, but 1 fear that if the proposed legislation to be submitted to . a popular referendum tin ' California in November is passed, ' there will be implanted in the Japanese mind a rankling. sense qf. wrong 1 inflicted'.- :r by. Americans that time wiil not efface. One cannot escape the fact that the existence of good or bad feeling be"tween Japan and the United 'States depends upon the action of the people of California. "I can only characterise California's, fear as imaginary. The average morality of the Japanese in California, is quite -etjU'Sl to that of any other people of foreign origin. If China and Japan stand for ideals as high as your own, tSien I hold that they must be dealt with on'a footing of absolute equality. It is my profound conviction that this carries with it .a- truth which all the great English-speaking communities will have to accept and act upon if their place in the world's • great (hereafter is to be comparable with that of tn-day." A Tokio message . states that the Japanese Government received a vo+r i,.,- 283 _ to 145 in the House of Representatives. : UN I VERS AT, SUFFRAGE RIOT Received 1.20 n.m., July 13t'h. Renter's Tel^n-rara?!..' TOKIO. July 13 Disorderly scenes occurred in the Hon.?®"Of I?t>nre« l >Ptntive«; on the intro-Hnr-fion of t'v-v Universal Snf.frase- 'Bill; which was defeated bv 286 to 155 A thousand o::eitod students attempted n demoru-tratio'i. ljiit were dispersed by the p°l iv*So"o of whom weve guarding the Diet. , There 'were nunieroiis collisions, between the polio and civilians. There were scores of arrests, and many were injured.