RACIAL EQUALITY

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 60, 4 December 1920, Page 9

RACIAL EQUALITY

JAPAN'S DEMANDS

AS VIEWED IN AUSTRAL-

ASIA

STATEMENTS BY SIR JAMES ALLEN ■ AND SENATOR MILLEN

Mr T«leirrap6—Pren Anoclatlon—Oopyrlghl

New York, December 2. Tho Geneva correspondent of tho NewYork "Evening Post" interviewed Sir James Allen, who said: "Japan has, and should have, tho right to raise the question of .racial, equality again; but 6he should wait until she attains an equality with other races which the rest of the world can recognise. She. has not got it ye-J. Let her, for one thing, pay her labour wlint other countries bordering on the Pacific Ocean pay." The correspondent also interviewed Senator Millen (Australia), -who said: "Opinion in Australia is - unalterable so far as tho Japanese are concerned, and there can be no opportune momeiti in thff future when we can .think differently. Baron Isliii has two things in his mind— [the recognition of racial equality, and the settlement of tlio dispute between Japan and Australia and New Zealand concerning the nature of the mandates over the Pacific Islands. Japan is insisting that the mandntes-.shaJl provide for Japanese immigration to those islands. We insist' upon exclusion."— Aus.-N.Z. Cable, Assn.

PREJUDICE IN UNITED STATES BARON ISHII CONFIDENT IT WILL CEASE. Naw York, December 2. The New York "Evening Post" representative: intlorviewed Baton Isliii, wno said: "By an opportune moment for the reintroduction of the racial , equality quc-stion, I mean when the time comes that our campaign education in California, Canada, and Australia lias succeeded, and we have convinced llhe peoples of those-countries that they have nothing to fear from Japan. We know that the American Federal Government sympathises with our Government; but we cannot net while prejudice continues in part of the United States.

"Tho prejudice will cease in the future, because of our strict adherence to the agreement concerning labour and immigration. Then California will realise that she has been tbo suspicious and apprehensive. Then it will be an opportune time to appeal to the- League of Nations, for recognition of the equality of my race, and tho United States will supporr us.

"The same will also be true, for the same reasons, in Canada and even in Australasia, which- is far more .bitter than California-. and Canada. It was not President Wilson or Colonel House who denied our appeal for-' recognition when the covenant was first framed; it was set aside through the influence of tho British' Dominions."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn

SLAUGHTER OF _KOREAN CHRISTIANS ALLEGATIONS OP MISSIONARIES. Tokio, December 1. Dr. Martin, a medical missionary at Jongjung, Manchuria, and Dr. Mansfield, of the Canadian Presbyterian Mission at Seoul, have issued statements charging the Japanese troop?, with indiscriminate slaitglr.er of Korean Christians in the Chieu-tao district of Manchuria, and tho destruction of harvested crops.. The Japanese War Office replies that nono were killed because of'their .religion, but the oxecutio.il of revolutionists and bandits was ordered when ifliey were caught in the act The missionaries stale that over two hundred people were killed. As a set-off to this, Japanese business men in ' Chien-tao' are asking for •further -Government protection against the revolutionists and bandits.—Router.