PACIFIC PEACE.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1920, Page 5

PACIFIC PEACE.

I AMERICA AND JAPAN. DANGER OF NAVAL POLICY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 21, 5.5 p.m. New York, Nov. 19. A message from Tokio reports that the newspaper Asahi Shimbun asserts that America's naval policy is entirely under the control of naval bureaucrats, and Borne ambitious Americans wish to crush Japan before the latter'a power increases. The newspaper urges the Japanese Government to take the initiative towards an understanding which would eliminate useless, naval competition. The newspaper also invites the Japanese Government to ascertain the United States' attitude towards Japan's acquisition of rights and interests in Siberia. Speaking at Austin, State Senator Bledsoe announced his intention to introduce legislation patterned after tho Caiifornian law, and designed to prevent Japanese from acquiring ownership of land in Texas. Mr. Bledsoe stated that negotiations for the establishment of a Japanese colony in the Rio Grande valley were in jjjbress, and he wquld make every legflPeffort to block the undertaking.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. JAPANESE PRESS VIEWS. Tokio, Nov. 18. j A committee of journalists passed a resolution demanding that a national protect be made against the Caiifornian legislation. The newspapers Kokumin- Shimbun and Yorodzu Choho. which led the outcry against California, simultaneously advocate appeals to the public opinion of the world rather than to stronger courses.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MISSIONARY SYMPATHY New York, Nov 17. The American Missionary Society passed a resolution of sympathy with the Japanese inhabitants of California on account of the State's alien laws, declar- | ing that the Japanese are the victims .of un-Christian propaganda. The assoj ciation pledges its co-operation to bring about harmony between the Japanese and Americans in California. THE POPE ANXIOUS. New York, Nov. 111, The Rome correspondent of the Chicago Tribune learns from the highest sources at the Papal Court that" for months the Pope lias feared an early outbreak of hostilities between Japan and the United States, and has been making every effort to postpone the eventuality.