AMERICA & JAPAN

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 120, 14 February 1921, Page 5

AMERICA & JAPAN

ISSUES NOT TO BE PRESSED AT PRESENT JAPANESE GOVERNMENT’S DECISION By Telegraph—Press Association-Oopyrlght. (Bee. February 13, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, February 12. State Department officials learn that the Japanese Government, owing to tlie pending change in the United States Administration, has decided not to press the issues pending between it and the American Government, including the California land law. It is also understood that the Japanese Foreign Office is satisfied with the recommendations for settlement made by Mr. Shideliara on the basis of his negotiations with Mr. Mor-ris.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec. February 13, 11.5 p.m.) * New York, February 12. Viscount Inouye, a member of the Japanese Diet, has arrived to purchase a million dollars’ worth of steel for- making machinery. He said he was confident that the issues between the United States and Japan could be settled on a commonsense basis. The 'better classes in both countries desired only friendly relations. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ’ SERIOUS POSSIBILITIES TROUBLE AT VLADIVOSTOK. '• (Rec. February 13, 5.5 p.m.) Tokio, February 11. The Vladivostok correspondent of the newspaper "Asahi Shimbun’’ states that unknown persons fired on five American sailors in* Vladivostok on Tuesday. One was wounded. Three Russian officers have been arrested in connection with the case. The paper also sftys that the Americans’ refusal to recognise the right of Japanese troops to police Vladivostok is developing serious conditions. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MEMORIAL'TO CONGRESS RIGOROUS EXCLUSION DEMANDED. (Rec. February 13, 11.5 p.m.) New York, February 12. The Lower House, sitting at Columbia (South Carolina), passed a resolution memorialising Congress to uphold the Western States in their purpose to maintain white civilisation, endorsing the Californian anti-Japane.se laws, 'and demanding that Congress should cancel the so-called "gentlemen’s” agreement with Japan and rigorously exclude Japanese—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A STEAMER-SEIZED ALLEGED SMUGGLING OF JAPANESE. (Rec. February 13, 5.5 p.m.) ' , New York, February 11. At Galveston* (Texas) Federal officers 'seized the Japanese steamer Fukuyo Maru, from Marseilles, and charged her captain with smuggling Japanese into the United States.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.