AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1920, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

cßy Electric Telegraph—Couyright.

CALIFORNIA AND JAPS. (Received this day at 10.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 12. The “Globo’s” travelling correspondent Bruce Bolivian, telegraphs from Los Angelos that .serious trouble is loom ing between "United States -and Japan. Lpcal anti-Japanese sentiment in California is rapidly rising to a point where action may soon bo taken, .which will make a continuance of the present eorI dial relations of the two countries impossible. California already had a law forbidding any Japanese to own landSlip is about to pass another forbidding Japanese even to lease land. Still more menacing, in the writer’s opinion, is the possibility of riots by Californians against Japanese. The outstanding aspect of the Californian situation is the fear that the Japanese, due to their | ability to vyork harder than the white man op a lower scale of living, will secure utimqte control of every industry. The anti-law forbidding tp" owp land is a dead letter. Dummy corporations are formed with wliit-p men as pominal directors t° hold land, act- * ually owned by Japanese. The antijapanese movement in Caifornia is furthered liy small white landowners. Large ranch owners are glad to emplpy Japanese workers. California's cTpipi thp practice of picture bridps continues, despite the assurance that the Japan? P!*e birth rate is so great that QallforIlians claim the Japanese would soon the State, CANADIAN CABINET. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) OTTAWA, July 13. Eight former members of the Government, namely Sir Geo. Foster, Sir ¥ James A. Lhngheed, H. Guthrie, A. Calder, A. L. Sifton, J. D. Reid, G. H. Robert,sop and Sir H, L. Drnytop, with {f. 11, McCurdy,’ new Ministers, have been sworn in, The Cabinet will probably be completed today. DR. 3IANNIX. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) ■' NE\V YORK., .Tidy 13. Op Saturday, tlie Mayor presented the freedom of the City to Archbishop Manpi x, who speaks with Do Valera in y Madison Square on Sunday. THIRD PARTY.

(Received tliis day at 11.30 a.m.) 1 ' NEW YORK, July 13fj’jifj (ijnalgaination of Ljiho]ir opd other groups with the Committee of forty-eight is expected by the Third Party. Tariff Questions. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) ' NEW-YORK, J"ly 12. The World's Washington correspondent says it is nnnpunced t }| af tlip State Department bus informed American ni(Uiufactnrers ! Export Association that it is not deemed to he advisable to approach the Australian Government on j preferential future with Australian • tariff. The Association had protested to the State Department that preferences towards Britain would work to the disadvantage of many American manufacturers who had built up trade with the Commonwealth; Sheldon, interviewed, said he "was not surprised at fhe State JUpparWept’s qptipn. He pointed out that United States received preferential treatment in Cuba’ and added that individual manufacturers in United States and Canada had approached him com cerning the preferential features of the Australian tariff, hut he told them he could not take the matter up unless it came to him through official channels.