STEMMING ALIEN TIDE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 24 June 1924, Page 7

STEMMING ALIEN TIDE.

America’s Immigration Policy.

PROTESTS FROM TOKIO

By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. TOKiO, June 21. It is officially stated that the Cabinet has decided to notiiy Aiueiicn that the latter’s reply G regarded : as unsatisfactory, and men drop clw matter, pending the American Presidential election, and the installation of new Ambassadors. It is stated that the Cabinet has decided to adopt a forward policy towards China, taking steps to demonstrate Japanese friendship towards other Orientals and some administrative leaders advocate Japan taking a lead to secure the abolition of the extra territorial claims against Guinn,

TENSE FEELING IN CALIFORNIA

ANTI-JAPANESE OUTBREAK FEARED. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. NEW YORK, June 22. There have been several violent crimes against the Japanese in Caliiforuia during the past few days, which some newspapers are inclined to accept as evidence of an anti-Japanese outbreak. „ , . The bodies of two well dressed Japanese wero found on a lonely seashore road, near San Pedro, having been shot from an ambush. The bodies were horribly mutilated. The victims have not boon identified. There is no clue to tho perpetrators. The second incident was at Los Angeles, where a Japanese salesman wa? dragged from a motor car by a party of men and women, and threatened with tar and feathers, unless ha immediately loft the district. Other ' demonstrations against Japanese are reported.

EFFECT OF INEXORABLE LAW DISTINGUISHED CITIZENS DETAINED.

By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. NEW YORK,. June 21. The injurious inflexibility of the immigration law was again illustrated when Lady Theodora Werneher, daughter-in-law of Lady Ludlow, wm detained on her arrival from Italy with a month-old daughter who was born in Milan. Lady Werneher, although born in Petrograd, is admissible under the ruling that an alien resident of the United States may return after six months’ absence, but the infant is not admissible because the Italian quota is exhausted. Sir Derrick Werneher, who had been a resident of the United States for the past five years, is at present England after a five months’ tour of It-aTv with his wife, who, although ill, returned to the United States with her baby and nurse. Ladv Werneher attempted to override the officials, declaring that detention prohahlv would be physically harmful while the appeal is being made to Washington, the officials declared the law must be vigorously enforced. All three will be taken to Fllis Island, ostensibly awaiting deportation.