DEBARRING JAPANESE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1754, 20 May 1913, Page 7

DEBARRING JAPANESE.

THE PROBLEM FOR AMERICA

DANGERS OF THE DISPUTE. PROSPECTS OF DEFINITE ISSUE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (ltcc. May 19, 11.20 p.m.) Lonifoo, May 19. Sir Valentine Cliirul, Director of tlio foreign Dtp;u'Uiient of "Tno Times," writing to "Tiio Times'' on tho Cali-fornia'!-Japanese dispute, soys that it threaten:} to fores to a definito issue I'annn's claim to equai treatment with the other World powers. A o::-:.;lion Las been raised which diplomacy lias hitherto l>e°n at pains to eluite by skilful compromises, and it is dangerous at the present time, because the centre of Japan's political stability is shifting rapidly rrcrr. tho small group of experienced statesmen who have been hitherto controlling the national forces.

Sir Valentine Chirol argues that the colour bar cannot logically be pleaded by a country which waged war t;>

<v,ind citizenship on American negroes. Ho adds that Japan lift-- a!r-a-.!y • tho coloured races' acquiescence in tho white man's claim 'to pre-eminence in that Dominion. MR. BRYAN IN DENUNCIATION. SUBSIDISED PATRIOTISM. (Rec. May 19, 11.20 p.m.) Washington, May 19. Mr. W. J. Bryan, United States Secretary of Stats, speaking in reference to California's Anti-Alien Land Bill, «- r.ounced the subsidised patriotism of sensational, mercenary newspapers which preferred scaro headlines to tho truth. REFEHENDUM ASKED FOR. (Rec. May 19, 11.20 p.m.) V/aslilnglon, May 19. Tho Asiatic Exclusion kociiety is petitioning for a referendum on tho Bill.