JAPANESE IMMIGRANTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 40, 17 October 1913, Page 4

JAPANESE IMMIGRANTS.

filing with Japanese immigrants to; Latin America a correspondent of the; Brazilian Intelligence Department, v.hile regretting the influx of Orientals admits some good points. Ho says; "Some years ago the Japanese came to Sao Paulo. Further Japanese arc iiow arriving who propose to devote themselves to the cultivation of rice and the mulberry tree on the coa>-t. it is the beginning of an immigration cue importance of which cannot bt estimated; it is a new proof of : U need of expansion awakened, after r.hc lapse of nearly half a century, in the soul of Nippon. Japan dreameJ ol huge openings in the xuuth of the American continent, above all in Brazil, a market whose needs mount 'nterminally. After having sei-.t merchandise, they send men. 1 was pre sent at Santos at the disembarkm.-ni •>f the iirst advance guard of 1000 people. The spectacle v.ai curious, and very different to the disembarking- of European immigrants. The men, many of whom-had then chests adorned with the Manchunan . medal, carried little flags in whicl the Japanese and Brazilian color.mingled, green and gold, white ant red- The extreme cleanliness ol tin Japanese was remarkable; whiK European immigrants, and especaiiy those from the south of Europe, lea-v-. the ship that has transported them n a filthy state the cabins of the boa. on which the Japanese arrived were aneat as at the time of departure. Eac); of them had in his baggage, in add: tion to the inevitable bottles of sauce and preserves, medicinal plants, writ ing paper, desk, small plates for eating rice, numerous articles of toilet. tooth paste and tooth brushes"