AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1920, Page 1

AMERICAN ITEMS.

(By Ek-ctric! Telegraph—Copyright.)

NEW YORK, April 3,

It is announced that a hundred members of the United States House of Representatives will leave on the fitli July on a two months’ tour of the Philiipines, Hawai, China and Japan, in order to obtain first hand information regarding the Pacific questions. The “Times” Manilla, correspondent states that 3000 Filipino farmers, headed by the Governor of the Province of Riyal, held a peaceful demonstration before Governor-General Harrison’s office against the sale of a 13,000 acre plantation to the Japanese. The demonstrations claim that the Japanese do not treat labour fairly. WASHINGTON, April 3.

President Wilson’s Note lias antagonised Turkish opinion. The Greeks also are annoyed at his insistence that Adrianople should be given to Bulgaria, and that Smyrna should bo refused to the Greeks. American business interests in Turkey are also apprehensive, Accordng to a despatch received from Tokio, the Japanese Premier, M. Ilava has announced that the Japanese forces in Siberia will not bo withdrawn till the situation there is considered cleared.

AMERICA’S NAVAL POLICY: WASHINGTON, April 2. The Secretary to the U.S. Navy, Mr, Josephus Daniels, has issued a statement denying that he has ever said that Japan constituted a Pacific menace. He pointed put that he docs not believe that any nation menaces the United States. America will not adopt any policy based,'on antagonism to any power in the Pacific. The United States was enlarging its Pacific Naval bases, but only in accordance with the principle of national protection and the preservation of the world’s peace. The U.S Navy Department, he added, desires to continue at peace and concord with Japan and the other nations bordering on.the Pacific.