“NO ARBITRATION!”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2798, 16 October 1924, Page 3

“NO ARBITRATION!”

ON JAPANESE FUAItGRATION. PRIME MINISTER EMPHATIC. Wellington, Last Night, To-day Air T. M. Milford asked the Prime Minister if lie bad s'een the cablegram stating that New Zealand and Australia had been compelled by a clause iti the. Geneva protocol. to arbitrate on the subject of coloured immigration, and that their refusal to do so might mean that the British Fleet would be used against tin-m. The Prime Minister: We are not going to arbitrate <»n the question of Japanese immigration. Wo simply say they won't come here, unless we give them permission League of Nations, or no League of Nations — and (hey can do as they like—that is tlie law of this country, and it will stand. T telegraphed to Sir dames Alien the views of New Zealand on the matter and he replied 1 haf, lie hail notified the Assembly of the la ague ai that lime that New Zealand had no intention of submitting P. anything sm-h as was proposed. It is too absurd for words. I don’t know who was authorised to send such a cablegram— Mr WiMVn-d: If is in (he papers. The Prime Minister: But il is absoinl'elv nonsense to think that British ships or British seamen should lie used to coerce us in that way. T! i-onld never happen.