NO JAPANESE WANTED.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 30 June 1924, Page 9

NO JAPANESE WANTED.

Agitation in Tokio. KEELING LESS INTENSE: By ('■•. .—Press Association-Copyright, Received 5.5 p.m., June 20. TOKIO, June 27. It is understood that the Foreign Office In Japan has dropped the idea of appealing to the League of Nations. Not because it had not a good case, but because the League is apparently impotent. The Premier states that the Government is hand-tied because of the American elections, which preclude the chance of any satisfactory presentation to America. NIPPON SEES ANOTHER MECCA. EYES ON SOUTH AMERICA. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. VANCOUVER, June 27. Passengers arriving at Victoria from Japan aboard the steamer President Jackson, state that the Japanese are planning an annual humiliation day on the anniversary of the date Mr Coolidge signed the Exclusion Bill.

Travellers assert that festivals, dances and parties in large measure have been discontinued because of the recent legislation, and an atmosphere approaching one of national mourning prevails. South American countries, particularly the Argentine and Brazil, loom on the horizon as Meccas for Japan’s surplus - population. Hundreds are already emigrating to Latin America.