JAPAN'S ATTITUDE.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 April 1919, Page 5

JAPAN'S ATTITUDE.

OVER RACIAL DISCRIMINATION. Received April 4, 8.30 p.m. Paris, April 3. General Mangin has returned from the Rhine command. M. Pichon, in a speech, said he believed peace would be ready before Easter. Baron Makino, interviewed, said Japan was ready to join the League of Nations as an equal. No Asiatic race could be happy in a league in which sharp racial discrimination was maintained. Japan did not wish to impose Japanese labor or immigration upon the associated countries.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. CRITICISED BY MR. HUGHES. Received April 4, 7.30 p.m. London, April 2. Mr. Hughes is not convinced of the practicability of the Labor Convention without radical alterations. Its machinery is unworkable, and the method of its constitution is unlikely to commend it to colonial workers. He says it seems unlikely the workers will view favorably the Government representation on the conferences, but while the convention makes it necessary for a State to submit recommendations to its legislatures State representation is essential. Again, the fact that Japan, with her cheap labor, refuses to accept the convention, at any rate for a period of years, raises a situation that the workers in other lands can scarcely subscribe to. However, the convention is likely to be thoroughly discussed and modified before the Conference adopts it, and criticism may perhaps be premature.—Aus. N.Z. Cabie Assoc. RACIAL DISCRIMINATION. Washington, April 3. Replying to Raron Mokino, in an interview, Senator Hitchcock, chairman Of the Foreign Relations Committee, said that the Japanese in international matters were accorded equality In treatment, it nas only in domestic matters that any discrimination of a racial character occur?. The United States iTi"=t ndiiere to the?e discriminations in order to preserve race purity Japan was full'- "nmoworefl to do the same-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SPAIN'S ADHESION TO THE LEAGUE. Received April 4, 10.30 p.m. Paris, April 3. The Spanish Government has informed President Wilson of its adhesion to the League as far as the essential principles are concerned.—Reuter. REPARATION AGREED TO. DEMAND FOR FIVE BILLION DOLLARS. Received April 5, 1.30 a.m. New York, April 4. The New York, World's Paris correspondent states that the Peace Congress has tentatively agreed to reparation. Germany will be asked to pay five billion dollars immediately.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. THE BLOCKADE OF GERMANY. London, April 3. The slow progress at the Peace Conference has led to a startling movement in England, appealing for the withdrawal of the blockade of Germany in order to facilitate greater food imports. The movement is based on special reports of the famine conditions and the de?pair Of the people, Owirg to which P.olshevi-sm is rapidly growing. The movement includes bishops, clergy, and many public men not associated with oolitic - !, besides prominent opponents of the Lloyd George Government —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.