Show Japanese Immigration Decreasing Washington Japanese immigration to America Is decreasing According to official reports received by the Im migration bureau the falling off for December 1907 was 2234 as compared com-pared with December 190C This Is regarded by the Immigration authorities authori-ties as proving that the immigration restrictions placed upon tho Japanese last spring aro proving effective While the immigration of Japanese during the past eight or nine months has shown an increase over the corresponding cor-responding period of last year it Is believed by tho immigration officials that the tide of immigration of Japanese Jap-anese 10 this country has been checked |