RACIAL EQUALITY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 304, 17 September 1920, Page 7

RACIAL EQUALITY

JAPAN TO PRESS QUESTION BEFORE LEAGUE LARGE DELEGATION GOING TO GENEVA By TelesraDh-Prosß Assoolatlon-OopyrltcM Paris, September 15. Japan intends to press the question of racial equality before the League of Nations Assembly, which is to meet in Geneva on-November 15. It is believed that if Japan fails to win a racial recognition that will give her immigrants equal rights and privileges with thc6o of other countries she will withdraw from the League and prepare for a light. Japan has retained accommodation at Geneva for the largest delegation, consisting of three official delegates and sixty-two other representatives. It is reported that Baron Ishii may personally conduct the negotiations—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE GAUFORNIAN PROBLEM EFFORTS TO REACH PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT. Tokio, September 14. Viscount Uchida, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has announced that Sir. Colby, Secretary of State, and Mr. Morris, the United States Ambassador to Japan, aro making efforts to reach a peaceful and satisfactory settlement of th.- Japanese problem in California, and the American and Japanese Governments will lake proper steps to come to a mutual undcr-slniiding.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

TO PROTECT AMERICAN INTERESTS

ADEQUATE FLEET IN PACIFIC NEEDED, Marion, Ohio, September 14. Senator Harding (Republican candidate for the Presidency) conferred with Governor Stephens, of California. Mr. Stephens said that California looked to tho Federal Government for the negotiation of treaties and the enactment of legislation for keeping Oriental immigrants, who could not be assimilated, from entering tho United States. - America should also maintain a fleet in the Pacific adequate to proteot American interests — Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.