ALIEN STREAM FROM ASIA.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1927, 9 December 1913, Page 7

ALIEN STREAM FROM ASIA.

FLOWING INTO CANADA. SIX HUNDRED CHINESE IN A MONTH, DAMMING THE HINDU TIDE IN UNITED STATES. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright Ottawa, December 7. An agitation for the enforcement o' an uniecognised clause of the Immigration Act authorising the Federal (Jovemment to exclude undesirables has been strengthened by the publication of official figures showing that Chinese are pouring in at tile rate of six hundred monthly, despite the five hundred dollar poll tax. The exclusionists demand a straightforward exclusion poiicv. '"limes"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. Ottawa, December 7. Forty Hindus who arrived from British Columbia are held for deportation, despite tho decision of this Supremo Court.

Reports received in Canada show that largo numbers of Hindus ar© awaiting action by tho Dominion before leaving India. Public bodies in British Columbia are urging the Government at Ottawa to enact stringent laws. HINDUS BARRED AT 'FRISCO. San Francisco, Docembor 7. The Federal Court has decided that Hindus arriving from the Philippines and claiming entrance to tho United States cannot be received, and has ordered tho deportation of twonty-four. It is understood the wise will bo earlied to tho Supremo Court. A DEADLOCK REACHED. BETWEEN JAPAN AND UNITED STATES., Washington, December 7. A deadlock lias been reached between Japan and the United States over tho Citlifornian alien lands question. Japan maintains that her treaty rights, havo been invaded, while the United States holds the contrary view.

Tho provision of the law by which Japanese arc debarred from owning lanrl in tho State was ingeniously devised, and it. is difficult to see liow Jarcm can consistently find fault with it. Tho law permits aliens who are eligible to citizenship to posse;? ;awl, but as _ to aliens who are ineligible to citizenship— amongst whom are tho Japanese—it is enacted that they "msy acquire, possess, enjoy, and transfer reel property or any interest therein, in this State, in the mannor and to the extent and for the purposes proscribed by any treaty now existing between the Government of the United States and the nation or country of which such alien is o. citizen, or subject, and not otherwise." Tho force of this lie's in the circumstance that (he treaty between Japan and {he United States does not confer upon tin? citizen;! or subjects of either nation tin- riprht to own land in the country of the oilier. Thus, the California!) law in based directly upon the treaty. In the attack which is certain te 'inde iipnn j! in the Courts of (lie United States'this fact will aid greatly (lie defenders of the law.