EAST AND WEST.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1784, 24 June 1913, Page 5

EAST AND WEST.

THE JAPANESE DANGER. WHAT THE UNITED STATES FEARS. By' Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. Juno 24, 0.45 a.m.) London, June 23. Admiral Mahan, tho well-known authority on naval topics, replying to a letter by Sir Valentino Chirol, director of the foreign department' of "The Times," which was published in "Tho Times" of May 19, on the Californian immigration dispute, says there is no necessary connection between a nation's status as a Great Power and its right to Teceive the privileges of immigration and naturalisation in another State. The public of the United States ond Canada are opposed to tho concession, of immigration to Japan, which involves naturalisation, (is American institutions do not favour the admittance of inhabitants without tho right of citizenship. Admiral Mahan adds: "Personally I entirely reject .tho assumption that my race is superior to tho Chinese and Japanese. My own suits mo better, probably because I am used to it, but America doubts her power to assimilate tho 6trong ■national ttnd racial characteristics which iare likely to constitute the Japanese an unchangingly foreign body of citizens."