AMERICA AND JAPAN.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16988, 10 November 1920, Page 9

AMERICA AND JAPAN.

$ - NEW TREATY DRAFTED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received November 9th, 10.35 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 8.

It is indicated that the tentative draft of the new treaty with Japan provides for an extension of privileges to Americans in Japan as well as defining the rights of Japanese in the United States. ANTI-JAPANESE LEGISLATION. (Received November 9th, 8.55 p.m.) • SAN FRANCISCO, Is ovember 8. Governor Stephens, of California, in a speech, said:. The anti-Japanese law will stand. Japan will never go further tha'n protesting. England and Australia have both endorsed laws similar to the Californian law and Japan has done nothing. , v Governor Stephens's statement is regarded as a reply to tho Federal State Department's recent announcement. [On the eve of the poll in California on the anti-Japanese legislation, Mr Ben G. Davis, Under-Secretary of State, issued a statement outlining tho .State Department's disposition on the law prohibiting Japanese from holding land. Mr Davis said the State Department had had numerous friendly and candid discussions with, tho Japanese Ambassador, and added: It is believed that he realises, as we have sought to malca cloar, that no outcome of tho C?aliforniaa movement will be acceptable to the country at largo tihat does not accord with the existing applicable pfovisions of the law or the national instinct of justice.]