JAPANESE EXCLUSION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19009, 9 May 1924, Page 5

JAPANESE EXCLUSION

EVIL DAY POSTPONED * PRESIDENT INSISTENT Received May 8, 10.20 p.m. (Reuter). WASHINGTON, May 7. At the insistence of President Coolidge, the conferees on the Immigration Bill have reconsidered their decision on the Japanese exclusion provisions, and will report n provision to make exclusion effective on March .1, .1925, with the understanding that in the meantime formal abrogation of the “gentlemen’s agreement” will be negotiated.

JAPANESE ACTIVITY

Received May 8, 10.30 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO, May 8.

The Nichibei, a Japanese newspaper published here, asserts that 6000 Japanese arc waiting in Japan for transportation to San Francisco. They include relatives sent for by resident Japanese in California under terms of the “gentlemen’s agreement,” and brides who will be unable to enter the United States after July 1 if the exclusion feature of the Immigration Act becomes effective at that date. The newspaper gives the. names of thirteen ships arriving from Japan before July 1, and declares that they cannot accomirfodate the number desiring to come. It further declares that 2000 Japanese bachelors left San Francisco for Japan during February, March and April, to obtain brides.

AMERICAN PEOPLE SEE DANGER

Received Mav 8, 10.30 p.m. (Reuter). NEW YORK, May 7. According to a despatch from Cleveland, the foreign commerce section of the Convention of Chambers of Commerce of the United States, numbering 400, unanimously resolved that friendly negotiations, instead of Congressional enactment, offers the best solution of the Japanese immigration problem. Half a dozen speakers, including four from western seaboard States, urged the action as an expression in harmony with the traditional ideals of America’s foreign policy. Major Griggs, of Tacoma, said: “We on the Pacific Coast, do not feel that seventy-five years’ close friendly relations with Japan should be swept aside in a moment of irritation.”