JAPS IN CALIFORNIA

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVIII, Issue 5963, 14 July 1920, Page 2

JAPS IN CALIFORNIA

PERIL TO THE STATE

SERIOUS TROUBLE LOOMING

GOVERNMENTS DRASTIC ACTION

(United Service Telegrams.) (Received July 14, 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 12,

The Globe's travelling correspondent, Mr Bruce Bvivan, telegraphs from Los A ageless that serious trouble is looming between the United States and Japan. Local ariti-Japancise sentiment in California is rapidly rising to a point where iictio-n may soon be taken which will make a continuance of the present cordial relations between the two countrieu impossible. GalifAn'iiia already has a law forbidding any Japanese to own land, and tihe in about to pass another forbidding Japanese even to lease land. Still more menacing, in the writer's opinion, is the possibility of riots by CaUfornians against the Japanese. An outstanding aspect of the Californian situation is the irar that Japanese, owing to their aMity, and to their working harder than the white man on a Sower scale of living, will secure the ultimate control of every industry intq, which they enter. The law forbidding Japanese to own land is a dead letter. Dummy corporations are formed, with white men as the nominal directors; to hold land wihich is actually owned by J/apawse. Thp aiiii-Japanese jmovJ> n.ent in California is furthered by the small white landowners, while the large ■ranch-owners are glad to employ Japanese workers. The Californians claim that the practice of "picture brides'' continues despite 'die asyivrance of Japan that it would cease. The Japanese birthrate is so great that the Calilfornians ctoim 'that ithe- Japanese will soon control the State.

SMUGGLED IN FROM MEXICO. DODGING THE RESTRICTION LAW. (Received July 14, 8 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, July 12. The Federal Housie of Representatives' Immigration Committee has begun its investlgatins into the Japanese immigration situation in California. Somvtor Phelan testified that Japanese were Being .smuggled from Mexico into California.