JAPAN'S REPLY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1771, 9 June 1913, Page 5

JAPAN'S REPLY.

TO THE UNITED STATES.

AN IMPORTANT POINT.

ANTI-ALIEN LAW A VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION. CABINET IMPRESSED. TelocraDh—Pross Association—CoDrrishl Washington, June 0". The Japanese 'rejoinder to the United States has been presented. The Note alleges violation of tho Japan-cst-Amcrican' Treaty. Whilo appreciating the American contention that tho question is largely an economic one, Japan points out that it enters the sphere of international relations, and therefore is also political. Japan further contends that the artielo in the American Constitution requiring all States to afford equal protection under the law to all persons within their jurisdiction has also boon violated. Tho United States Cabinet - considers that the important point thus raised will requiro tho closest consideration. ' A CIRCUMSTANTIAL STORY. REPORTED ' GERMAN-JAPANESE TREATY. London, Jumo G. London papers give prominence to certain statements which liavo been made by the "New York American" concerning one Greaves, a so-called Adelaide doctor, who was arrested .in Glasgow in 1912, and who, it is stated, was released soon after in order to joiii tho British Sccret Service. Subsequently, it is stated, he was sent to the United States, where he discovered 'that envoys of Germany and Japan were meeting in New York. Tho result of that meeting, it is further ' stated, was the signing of a secret agreement in which Germany bound herself not to interfere in a great scheme for -Japanese colonisation in the South Seas. • Greaves cabled a copy of the agreement to the British Foreign Office, but had > never received payment. ' Hence, it is stated, his decision to make the matter public. Greaves wag arrested in Glasgow under the Official S'ccrets Act. Ho described himself as an Australian, and when ardested had in his possession documents likely to be of use to any enemy of Great Britain. GREAVES'S RECORD. , (Rec. Juno 8, 5.5 p.m.) London, Juno 7. An official of the Scottish Office states that Greaves was released in tho duo course of tho law. . Tho newspapers comment upon the fact that the minimum imprisonment, with exemplary conduct, 1 should have ' been thirteen and a half months. Greaves was known to the New South Wales polico uudkr various names. He was prosecuted in Sydney ia .lfllO for practising as an uncertificated doctor. ' "GOOD AND TRUSTED NEIGHBOURS." ' i AMBASSADORIAL COURTESIES'. ' (Rec. June 8, 5.5 p.m.) ' Washington, June 7. Mr. W. J. Bryan, speaking at a prearranged meeting at Pittsburg between Mr. Guthrie (United States Ambassador to Japan) and Viscount Chinda, the Jap.aneso Ambassador, paid a tribute to both diplomatists, and asked that all questions at issue between the two countries should be dealt with in an amicable spirit. . ' Viscount, Chinda agreed that misunderstandings could always and easily bo settled if a spirit of justice and fair play were only observed. Tho' two nations ought always to remain good and trusted neighbours. INTERNATIONAL COURTESIES. BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. (Rec. June 8, 5.5 p.m.) London, June 7. Lord Roberts presided at the Pilgrims' Club welcome to tho new American Ambassador to Great Britain (Mr. W. H. Page). Sir Edward. Grey (the British Foreign Minister), in proposing Mr. Page's health, said tlmt if America submitted peace proposals for making, conflicts between nations remoter, Britain would respond. America was fortunately placed to take tho initiative, because she was beyond tho reach of the meoiaca of aggression. • Mr.'Page, in reply, said that the time had long passed when they needed to indulge in makeshifts. The two great Eng-lish-speaking nations could speak together frankly to those having "much land and small habit of sea." The British Empire, he added, was an unfathomable wonder till ono reflected that it was not built by standing on this small island, but by standing astride the seven seas.