RACIAL EQUALITY

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14256, 6 January 1920, Page 5

RACIAL EQUALITY

IN MANDATE TERRITORIES. { DEMANDS BY THE JAPANESE, \ TO REMOVE DISCRIMINATION, • (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received January 6, 9.25 a.m. PARIS, Jan. 5. A Japanese reservation in respect to the mandate is regarded as a further effort to secure racial recognition. It i- anticipated that when the ference < resums, the Japanese delegates will seek to secure recognition of equality in the mandates and probably take the view that the League of Nations should not discriminate between nationalities included in the League on the question of immigration to mandatory territories, and that legislation by any particular nation holding-a mandate should not be allowed to inflict disabilities on other parties to th< League in territories for which the League merely delegates its trustecXt is not considered likely that the British will accede any departure from the methods adopted at the Conference, when a highly-placed membei of the British delegation expressed the opinion that the .laws of ithe coun.ry holding the mandate should be applicable to the territory. The Japanese, if 1 unsuccessful now, will carry the demand to . the first/ assembly of the League of Nations.