JAPAN AND AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 305, 18 September 1920, Page 7

JAPAN AND AMERICA

NEGOTIATIONS ON CALIFORNIAN

PROBLEM

[ (By Telegraph-Press ABsociatlon-Ooipyrlelrt Washington, September 15. It is understood that the informal discussion Between, the State Department and the Japanese Ambassador on the Californian situation has 'ended, and that formal negotiations have begun. The Japanese Government has authorised the Ambassador to take up the question officially. The "Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" eays that considerable interest is being taken in tho opening of negotiations between the State \ Department and the Japanese Ambassador on the Japanese question in California. It is pointed out that President Wilson's administration will probably wait until after the election before tak- . ing any definite step, and it is thought Hint if Senator Harding is elected, President Wilson will pass the Japanese question on to him. There is no doubt that California will approve of laws making it impossible for the Japanese not only to own land, but even to.lease or otherwise control land through organisations. There are many questions needing settlement between Japan and the United States, among them those of Siberia (including Sakhalin), the "open door" in China, and Japanese colonisation in Hawaii and the Philippines;, and pending-a settlement of tho Californian question all these will probably have to wait.—Aus.-N.Z. Ciblo Assu.

WAR VETERANS' PETITION SHUTTING THE HODR, AGAINST JAPANESE. Washington, September 15. An organisation of foreign war veterans has petitioned the Government to abrogate any agreements with Japan permitting other than Japanese students and merchants to enter the United States, to pass legislation forbidding such immigration, to enact a constitutional amendment making it ihvpossiblo for American-born Japanese to .become United States citizens, and not to-.per-mit the naturalisation of any Japanese new in the United ' States.-Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.