JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA
4 MR. HUGHES’S STATEMENT GRATIFYING TO JAPANESE. . Sydney, April 12. Mr. K. Tamaki, Acting-Consul-General for Japan, in endorsing Baron. Hayashi’s comment on Mr. Hughes’s statement, said the statement would be gratifying news to the Japanese, some of whom wore disposed to believe that tho radical and sensational sentiments sometimes promulgated in Australia expressed the unanimous belief of the Commonwealth. —Press Assn.
ILn the course of a speech in tho Federal House of Representatives Mr. Hughes said that whatever restrictions Australia imposed, against Japan operated against all nations, including Britain. Because Australia had passed certain laws, it was not done out of disrespect for Japan, but merely because of a difference in ideals. He reminded Japan that she had passed stringent laws in relation to foreigners. He desired to live in ]x>ace with Japan, and retain her friendship and trade if possible. Asked if it was not Australia’s bounde.n duty to use every means at her disposal to secure a renewal of the Anglo-Japan-ese Treaty, Air. Hughes replied that th<Sy could not, in attempting to retain the friendship of Japan, make an enemy of America.]
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 169, 13 April 1921, Page 7
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187JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 169, 13 April 1921, Page 7
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