ASIATIC EMIGRATION

Waikato Times, Volume 93, Issue 14538, 9 December 1920, Page 5

ASIATIC EMIGRATION

NEED FOR CO-OPERATION. i UNITED STATES AND DOMINIONS. I (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) i Received December 8, JO a.m. i WASHINGTON, December 7. 3 The Australian Press Association i interviewed Senator Lodge, who said; - “My statement concerning the co- ■ operation of Canada, Australia and New • Zealand wilh Hie United Slates re- ! garding Asiatic immigration was 1 merely a general statement of policy, which I favour, and the importance ot which I do not think can he overpjslMiiiM. L-hit]kYfl_sui2lT—oi-onera-lion may be obtained, but I have not yet considered or attempted to work out the details. The question is one which I fiope will engage the attention of the incoming Congress and new administration. I am not prepared at 1 this time to go any further into the details of this very important subject." Mr Sheldon, Hie Commonwealth representative in the United States, ■ commenting on the Lodge interview, ' said: "I learn this wilh pleasure. It will no doubt give satisfaction ; throughout Hie British Empire, and the more of these understandings with the United Slates on this and other matters, the better pleased will the members of the Empire he.”