AMERICA AND JAPAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1924, Page 2

AMERICA AND JAPAN.

ACSTHALIAN’ AND N\Z. CAULK AtshUCl ATKIN. .1A PS THROW OIT A.MKKICAX. | TOKIO, . Jllin* I:i. An American passcni'cr in a nnini-j filial motor was <■*! by tinesc passengers. j J A RANKS 1C R ICSKNT.M ICNT. i *Received tiii- ilay at ‘ a.i11.) j iokio, .1 Hue 11. : The American ICmbnssy lias formally 1 protested against the boycott of Amo- ■ riean lilms cabled on .June !>. ami in-' forming the .Japanese (luvernineni eon-' renting other discriminations. The ICnihnssy’s action followed a complaint : by representatives of American film ] compamc- at Kobe, who the: lioycott moveiiiciil was spreading in ! Western Japan. and asked assistance j in combating it. The loctil boycott, j however, appears to he breaking down, i 1 lie police announced that full protec- ' lion will he given to theatres showing American films, and warned the socalled patriotic hoycotters not to use' intimidation a- a weapon. Tokio's . leading theatres intemf to continue to exhibit American films. Popular resentment against exdn- . sion persists, and public meetings con-; ttntte to adopt anti-exelusion resolutions. Student organisations eontinuo to be active, but dittttitv and restraint have supplanted the earlier passion. ! Si"'.'' —""T"*"