AMERICA AND JAPAN

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 44, 16 November 1920, Page 7

AMERICA AND JAPAN

QUESTION OF EXCLUSION OF LABOURERS AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPLE ' REACHED fj Teleirin>h-Pre«i Aißooifttlon-OonyrlßW Tokio, November It. Tho newspapers report that the Japanese and American Governments have i reached an agreement in principle con- ■ cerning the exclusion of Japanese, labour- , era from the United States, but there is a disagreement! regarding the methods to bo employed. America, it is understood, is desirous that the provisions of the exclusion should be embodied within a treaty. Japan regards this procedure as humiliating, and as setting up a precedent which sho mighii be forced to follow in future treatics-with other Pow-ers.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Washington, November 11. The American position is' that the inclusion of the provision for the exclusion of Japaneso labourers within a treaty would facilitate ratification by tlie Senate. Japan maintains that the omission of such a provision would assure greater popular support within Japan for a treaty.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Phildelphia, November 14. Mr. Morris, the now Ambassador in Japan, declared that war bettween Japan nnd the United States is,, unthinkable. Ho reerets the ill-considered stntemeiiife which, occasionally have been published ill both countries suggesting the possibility of war. No question pending between tho two Governments was insoluble. —Aus.-N.K. Cnble Assn. THE MANDATE"iSLANDS FORTIFICATION BY JAPAN DENIED. New York, November U. The "Chicago Tribune's" correspndent at Tokio interviewed Captain iSiouiiira, of the Navy Department, who said:— "Every report that Japan is fortifying or planning to fortify, or establishing naval bases on any of tho mandate islands, is completely false. There is no reason why an independent investigation cannot be made in order to see tho ,exWl> ink conditions. I already have informally suggested that an American-Naval Attache should visit tho islands in view of the many persistent' allegations in the foreign Press regarding Japanese fortifi-cations."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.