JAPAN AND AMERICA

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1920, Page 3

JAPAN AND AMERICA

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-(Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. •The State Department officials .state in negotiations with the Japanese Ambassador, Shidihara, United States will maintain its position set forth by the JLansing-Ishii agreement, under which Japan voluntarily undertakes to prevent her citizens coming to United) States. The Department will do its best to avoid a conflict in negotiations as the outcome oh, Japanese protest against the Californian State Law prohibiting Japanese holding land. NEW YORK, Sept. 23. The New York “Times” Washington correspondent telegraphs that gratifying progress has been made in the,effort to rendu a satisfactory understanding, relative to the California question and other matters pertaining to the rights of Japanese nationals in United States. AMERICA’S POSITION. Illeceived this day at 9.20 a.m.) NEW YORK ,Sept. 23. Quoting an unnamed authority, the correspondent Mates that United States participation in the League of Nations during the past nine months would have cost approximately 34,209 dollars and if United States does not join the League but makes a separate peace with Germany she will probably lose a sum involving more than twelve hundred million dollars. The authority points out that Germans, under a separate treaty, would probably not allow the American alien property custodian to retain eight hundred million dollars of former German holdings in United States, nor return to Americas four hundred million of African investments in Germany. United States would also lose valuable patent rights, copyright and trade marks at the Versailles Treaty, if she makes a separate peace,