JAPAN AND AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3594, 5 October 1920, Page 5

JAPAN AND AMERICA.

THE CALIFORNIAN QUESTION JAPANESE FEARS AND CONTENTIONS. o " Received 9,45 a # m. TOKIO, October 4.) Inquiry in responsible Japanese quarters reveals a feeling of apprehension that American anti-Japanese movements may cause movements for the exclusion of Japanese elsewhere, especially in the British Dominions. The Japanese contend that the Americans are confusing the present negotiations with general immigration questions which are not involved. It is further contended that the Americans arc blocking Japan’s legitimate and necessary expansion in China and Siberia, as Japan must find an outlet for her population. The feeling is general that war with America is impossible, but estrangement is possible. Japanese ■ leaders are alarmed over the growth of domestic and economic conditions and the tendency to blame the nation’s leaders for inability to check the alleged moral situation in Japan,

WEATHER FORECAST. The indications are for southerly moderate to strong winds. Weather probably cool and changeable. The night will probably be very cold. The barometer has a rising tendency. DAMAGES FOR LIBEL. GISBORNE , October 4. ■ The case in which Henry Green and John Meiklc, watersiders, sued the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Federation, Janies Roberts (secretary), and also the Maoriland Worker Printing and Publishing Company for £IOOO damages, each for alleged libel, concluded to-day, The jury awarded each plaintiff £IOO damages. His Honor, in summing up. said the case was one of great importance to unions and a