Panama Canal.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7868, 10 July 1905, Page 2

Panama Canal.

OFFER OF JAPANESE LAISOIUKKS. SAN FRANCISCO, June Hi. me i resMent now has before Wim a proposition made by Minister Tak aliira. of Japan, to furnish any ivnnir t'jl number ~r Japanese labourers I'm I a.ii,aina cjinul work at 7,"> cents: a day, transportation to and from" <thc isthmus to be furnished by the Japanese Government and' the linited States -to furnish board, tensing, and medical attendance. This offer was made by Minister Takahira alter receiving data gathered by Consul I,\eno, of ! San Francisco, who visilud I anunui in company with a Japanese army surgeon. It is underatood here that the. Japanese labourers in question are now serving as soldiers in the ear East, and wifl b e taken to Panama in urm.y transports Minister T,,kahira's offer is taken of course, as indicating the confidence of the Japanese Government that the war with Russia will soon tcitmin/ito, So far as can iho learned the .President, id ivot inclined -to accept the offer of tho Japanese Minister, ( , n account of the gnowing opposition to tile admission of Japanese labourers into the linitikf States. If f„ P coolies are admitted to the canal zone there will be no method under tho present law of preventing them from entering.: the l'nked Stales Chinese coolies, on the- other hand'

may bo employed at Planaimi and excluded from t'liisl country. Unless means are found for preventing the wholesale immigration of Japanese labourers intu this Country, it is not likely they will bo introdced into tho canal zone,